Music Industry
Gibson Guitars, 3M, Delta Dental, Informatix all suffer job losses.
- Gibson Guitars layoffs 50 from its Nashville office. The company has cited a 20% drop in musical instrument sales as the reason for the layoffs. Gibson is well-known for manufacturing fretted instruments like guitars, mandolins and banjos.
- Shoreline plans to cut 35 jobs.
- NewsX layoffs 78 employees.
- 3M cuts 1000 jobs in Q2.
- Delta Dental cuts 30 jobs.
- Informatix Inc cuts 48 jobs.
- Smithfield Foods layoffs 140 in Texas Murphy-Brown facility.
Total losses = 1381



