Byline: By Howard Walker Food giant NestlA is cutting 275 jobs across its sweet-making operations in the North after admitting it is falling behind UK competitors. The company is planning to axe 234 posts at its manufacturing site and head office in York with a further 41 redundancies at its
Source: The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Posted: 2006-03-06
TRAVEL giants Thomas Cook plan to axe up to 325 jobs, including some in Scotland, as part of a major shake-up. The company are merging their mass market tour operating business and Thomas Cook Signature, their scheduled-air and cities tour operation, into one division. The sales centres in Falkirk
Source: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Posted: 2006-03-06
Byline: Lesley Clark Mar. 3--WASHINGTON -- Seeking to distance her struggling U.S. Senate campaign from a corruption scandal, Rep. Katherine Harris Thursday released details of a $10 million budget request she made on behalf of a defense contractor who last week pleaded guilty to steering illegal
Source: The Miami Herald (Miami, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-03-06
Sweets firm Nestle is axing 41 jobs after falling behind its competitors. The company has announced it will be making the cuts at its factory in Fawdon, Newcastle, as well as 234 posts at its site and head office in York. Cuts will be from the shop floor to higher levels of management and, while
Sandwich shop chain Subway has opened a third store in Huddersfield. The new store at Wakefield Road, Aspley, has created five full-time and 10 part- time jobs. It is owned by franchisee Leah Hall with friends Kay Mulligan and Tracey Worden. Kay and Tracey already own two Subway outlets in
Byline: By Howard Walker More than 60 jobs are to be created on Tyneside under plans for a multi-million pound steam recycling plant. Newcastle environmental management company Graphite Resources has secured backing from Allied Irish Bank for the design phase of the facility at Derwenthaugh,
Source: The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Posted: 2006-03-06
A pounds 1m pub is due to open in the Tees Valley creating 50 full and part-time jobs. Pub company JD Wetherspoon is building a Lloyds No.1 bar on the site of a former First Freeze supermarket in Crown Street, Darlington. Set to open on May 15, it will be called The William Stead. Wetherspoon has
Byline: Tom Daykin Mar. 3--Pleasant Prairie -- The planned expansion global pharmaceutical maker Abbott Laboratories Inc. into southeastern Wisconsin could bring at least 2,400 -- and possibly up to 12,000 -- jobs, Gov. Jim Doyle and other officials said Thursday. The governor announced that a
Source: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-03-06
Byline: By Patrice John A BIRMINGHAM couple who lost their jobs nearly a year ago when Rover collapsed are organising a reunion for ex-workers. Jo and Des Wardell worked for the engine production plant Powertrain for a combined 53 years. Rover went into administration last April 7, Power-train also
Source: Birmingham Mail (England)
Posted: 2006-03-06
Byline: Michelle Machado Mar. 3--STOCKTON - Univer-sity of the Pacific sophomore Shelley Roxas had dressed for success: Her outfit, a no-frills, trim black pantsuit and tailored white shirt, breathed professionalism. She listened attentively to Gregory Leong as the IRS recruiter described nearly a
Source: The Record (Stockton, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-03-06