FACTBOX-Mounting job losses in non-financial sectors
April 28 (Reuters) - The global financial crisis has claimed
more than half a million jobs in non-financial sectors since the
start of the year.
Following are details of announced job cuts of 2,000 or more
in non-financial sectors since the beginning of January:
REGION - EUROPE:
COMPANY SECTOR NUMBERS DATE
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Elcoteq Electronics 5,000 Jan 15
Metro AG Retail 15,000 Jan 20
Philips Electronics
Electronics 6,000 Jan 26
Corus Steel 3,500 Jan 26
STMicroelectronics
Chip maker 4,500 Jan 27
SAP Software 3,300 Jan 28
AstraZeneca Plc Drugmaker 6,000 Jan 29
Atlas Copco Machinery 3,000 Feb 02
SAS Airlines 8,600 Feb 03
Salcomp Telecom 3,300 Feb 10
GKN Plc Aerospace 4,364 Jan/Feb
Severstal
Steel 9,000-9,500 Mar 11
Continental Tyre 2,000 Mar 11
Leoni Auto 4,000 Mar 24
Heidelberg Printing 2,500 Mar 26
LyondellBasell Petrochemical 3,000 April 8
Russian Railways Railways 53,700 April 9
Air France-KLM Airlines 2,500-3,000 April 15
Sony Ericsson Mobile phones 2,000 April 17
Stora Enso Paper 2,000 April 23
REGION - NORTH AMERICA:
COMPANY SECTOR NUMBERS DATE
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Motorola Mobile phones 4,000 Jan 14
Alcoa Inc Aluminum prod 15,000 Jan 06
EMC Corp IT 2,400 Jan 07
Dell IT 1,900-3000 Jan 08
Boeing Co Airlines 4,500 Jan 09
Cessna Aircraft Airlines 2,000 Jan 12
Hertz Global Hldgs
Inc Car rental 4,000 Jan 16
Eaton Corp Manufacturer 5,200 Jan 20
Intel Corp IT 6,000 Jan 21
Microsoft Corp IT 5,000 Jan 22
Texas Instruments
IT 3,400 Jan 26
Sprint Nextel Corp Telecom 8,000 Jan 26
Home Depot Inc Home
Improvement 7,000 Jan 26
Pfizer Inc Pharma 19,500 Jan 26
Molex Inc Electronics 2,500 Jan 27
Corning Inc Manufacturer 4,900 Jan 27
Jabil Circuit Inc
Electronics 3,000 Jan 28
Eastman Kodak Co
Camera, printing 4,500 Jan 29
Macy's Inc Retail 7,000 Feb 02
Cisco Systems Inc
IT 1,500-2000 Feb 04
Estee Lauder Cos Inc
Cosmetics 2,000 Feb 05
BorgWarner Inc Auto 4,400 Feb 12
Chrysler LLC Auto 3,000 Feb 17
Goodyear Tyre 5,000 Feb 18
Delta Air Lines Airlines 2,100 Feb 19
Visteon Corp Auto 9,300 Feb 25
Nortel Networks Corp
Telecom 3,200 Feb 25
United Technologies
Corp Manufacturing 11,600 Mar 10
PPG Industries
Inc Paint maker 2,500 Mar 12
Bluegreen Corp , Resorts, sites 3,000 Mar 16
Caterpillar Inc Earth-Moving
Equipment 26,064 Jan/Feb/Mar
MeadWestvaco
Corp Packaging 2,278 Jan/Mar
Agilent Technologies
Inc Electronics 2,700 Mar 26
Bombardier Inc Train/aircraft 3,000 April 2
Dover Corp Manufacturing 4,800 April 22
Timken Co Manufacturing 7,000 April 27
General Motors Corp
Auto 90,000 Jan/Feb/April
REGION - ASIA-PACIFIC:
COMPANY SECTOR NUMBERS DATE
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TDK Corp <6762.T> Electronics 8,000 Jan 08
Lenovo Group <0992.HK> IT 2,500 Jan 08
BHP Billiton Ltd/Plc
Mining 6,000 Jan 21
Panasonic Corp <6752.T> Electronics 15,000 Feb 04
Nissan Motor Co <7201.T>Auto 20,000 Feb 09
Pioneer Corp <6773.T> Electronics 10,000 Feb 12
REGION - AFRICA
COMPANY SECTOR NUMBERS DATE
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Anglo Platinum Platinum 10,000 Feb 09
Lonmin Plc Platinum 5,500 Feb 24
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TOTAL 515,106
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(Writing by Jijo Jacob and Carl Bagh, Bangalore Editorial
Reference Unit; Additional writing and editing by David Cutler,
London Editorial Reference Unit;)
((david.cutler@thomsonreuters.com; +44 20 7542 7968; Reuters
Messaging: david.cutler.reuters.com@reuters.net))
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