BlackBerry's chief operating officer, Kristian Tear, and chief marketing officer, Frank Boulben, have both left the company with immediate effect, while chief financial officer Brian Bidulka will leave at the end of the financial year, the ...
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2 Sisters’ plan to axe 200 jobs at its Coupar Angus chicken processing plant in Perth and Kinross would be “absolutely devastating”, warns the Unite union. News of 2 Sisters' 200 job cuts was received with disbelief and ...
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2 Sisters Food Group has had an action-packed year. In June, its acquisition of Vion finally won approval from the Office of Fair Trading – safeguarding 5,000 jobs. But it wasn’t all good news for the food manufacturer. Its ...
Toyota Australia employees face an uncertain future, with the local manufacturer announcing it is taking “urgent action” in seeking a variation of the terms and conditions of its workplace agreement. The Port Melbourne-based ...
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Senior executives at ailing smartphone maker BlackBerry met with Facebook executives to find out whether the social media company might be interested in bidding for the Canadian firm. News of the meeting was reported in the Wall Street ...
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Nokia has announced an increase in sales of its Lumia Windows Phone devices to 8.8 million units and posted a surprise €118m profit for its third quarter. However, Nokia's re-acquaintance with profitability was largely due to savage ...
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KPMG's Italian business has purchased 3,500 BlackBerry 10 smartphones, and revealed plans to fully migrate its smartphone real estate to BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10. Financial services firm KPMG describes the struggling Canadian ...
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BlackBerry's co-founders, Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin, are considering weighing in with a counter-bid for the ailing smartphone maker, according to a financial filing made on Thursday. A bid by the pair would represent an ...
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At its meeting, the Supervisory Board of Evonik Industries AG unanimously passed resolutions relating to the successful focusing of the Group on specialty chemicals and its future growth targets. Over the past five years Evonik has been ...
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BlackBerry could slash its workforce by up to 40 per cent before the end of this year, as the struggling smartphone manufacturer attempts to cut costs. According to The Wall Street Journal, the BlackBerry job cuts will take place across ...
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Philips has announced job cuts at its Hamilton factory following a decision to move part of the site's production abroad. Hamilton currently manufactures outdoor luminaires (conventional and LED), and SOX low pressure sodium lamps – ...
Lloyds Banking Group is looking for 30 IT apprentices to take up specialist roles that it says cannot be filled by graduates. The group, which is the parent company of high street bank Lloyds TSB, is looking for school leavers with a ...
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US-based food company HJ Heinz is evaluating plans to cut about 250 jobs in the UK and Ireland, as part of an effort to restructure its business. This move comes after comes after the sale of the company to an investment consortium ...
There are two ways analysts report hiring trends in the tech: Some focus on the half-empty, others on the half-full. For the half-empty view, there is this new report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., which claims that layoffs in ...
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Confusion over job cuts at Tulip is rife among industry insiders and analysts at a time when things were beginning to look up for UK and export markets for pork. Tulip's pork business is doing well, according to industry commentators ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food