Shoes
Barratts cut 1610 jobs.
Source: BBC News
It is not “ho ho ho” for 33 Deane Apparel employees.
Thirty-three full and part-time jobs will be axed just before Christmas at the Deane Apparel clothing factory in Leeston, south of Christchurch. The closure on December 18 will bring the curtain down on the factory that has been owned by Deane Apparel since 1970.
Total losses = 33
The Klaus Kneale Pink-Slip List (P-SL) for May 2009.
The following Pink-Slip List (P-SL) was compiled by Klaus Kneale.
Job Losses = 23704
May 30: Deere & Co lays off 89 in North Dakota and 16 in Louisiana as part of ongoing reductions.
May 29: Cintas projects worse than expected fourth quarter results and lays off 650 workers.
May 22: Monsanto lays off 55 in Mississippi as part of manufacturing facilities consolidation.
May 21: UPS’s airlines arm cuts 80 mechanics on slump in shipping volume.
May 19: Hewlett-Packard announces 17% decline in quarterly profit and reduces workforce by 2% (6400 workers).
May 19: Medtronic cuts executive pay by 5%, freezes salaries and slashes upwards of 1800 jobs.
May 18: American Express reduces global workforce by 6% (4000 jobs) adding to a 7000 employee cut announced last October.
May 15: Following review of operations announced in February, Nike cuts 1750 jobs (5% of total workforce).
May 15: Fruit of the Looma Berkshire Hathaway. A subsidiary pink-slips 80 in Alabama.
May 12: Applied Materials posts quarterly loss and increases previously announced job cuts by 300.
May 11: Dell slashes 260 jobs in North Carolina and blames the economy.
May 7: Cummins Indiana plant that supplies Chrysler and lays off 610 workers.
May 7: DuPont to December job cut of 2500 with another 2000 employee cut.
May 6: Wells Fargo freezes pension plans and fires 548 in North Carolina.
May 5: Microsoft pink-slips a second 5000 employees following its initial January layoff.
May 5: Allstate closes claims office in Florida and lays off 66 employees.
Nike just did it – they sacked 1750 people.
Nike, Â the world’s largest maker of athletic shoes and apparel, will slash 5 percent of its 35,000-strong global workforce or 1750 jobs, in the largest headcount reduction in the company’s history.
Total losses = 1750
Original Shoe Company give the boot to 17 employees.
17 jobs have been lost with the closure of the Belfast branch of a footwear store.
OSC, the Original Shoe Company, is closing 10 stores across the UK. The stores are owned by JJB Sports.
JPS Footwear to close after 25 years.
The recession and the high costs of business rates are being blamed by the owner of a long-running Burnham-On-Sea shoe store which announced its closure on Friday afternoon. JPS Footwear is one of the South West’s biggest discount shoe stores, but will close it’s doors on June the 6th 2009.
Director Geoff Shickle said:
These are difficult times for all businesses, the retail world in particular. We have run a very successful business for a quarter of a century, and closure would not have been considered if escalating costs, beyond our control, were likely to be capped.
Job losses = 6
