Thursday, February 27, 2014

Sony Electronics will dismiss 1,000 workers - Express-News

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28.02 | 02:50

Sony Electronics dismiss about 1,000 workers, according to the agency Bloomberg is a third of the personnel division Sony. Such dismissal in separate divisions of the company is part of the global goal of layoffs in the company Sony. According to the plans of the company just this month will lay off 5,000 employees. The company also decided to sell the business curve on manufacturing laptops and televisions to provide a separate structure in the Sony.

Closures of stores will also be conducted on the territory of the United States. So out of 31 branded stores will be closed on 20. The Japanese company will try to pay more attention to emerging markets, as the company’s retail outlets in the U.S. are only near cities. In New York offices of the Japanese company was sold for $ 1.1 billion, and sales offices are in that building only on loan.

Causes all closures and layoffs is projected losses of the company. So just for this year Sony expects to lose about $ 1.1 billion, as demand for PCs and TVs has fallen sharply, and the main competitors of Samsung smartphones and Apple take the lion’s share of the profits.

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