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-- spider (spider0@usa.net), March 26, 2001
March 26, 2001 Robertson Stevenson 80 employees.March 26, 2001 Sciquest 92 employees or 26%.
March 26, 2001 PMC Sierra 230 employees.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), March 26, 2001.
March 26, 2001 GiftCertificates.com may fire thier entire call center & outsource all customer service functions, affecting around 150 jobsMarch 26, 2001 Stratford Internet Technologies closed.
March 26, 2001 Robbie Stephens firing between 20-25% of its bankers this week (think Wednesday)
March 26, 2001 Netmorf.com blew through over $10 million. Closed.
March 26, 2001 Go2online: 35+ employees or 30%.
March 26, 2001 Global One cut 100 jobs in Virgina.
March 26, 2001 Merrill Lynch may fire most technical consultants (programmers, etc.)
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), March 26, 2001.
5:34pm 03/26/01 HotJobs.com cuts 15% of work force (HOTJ) By Nicole MaestriHotJobs.com said after the closing bell Monday that it has cut its workforce by 15 percent since the beginning of the year and expects to record a first-quarter charge of $2.5 million to $3 million to cover the move. "We are reducing our costs to become profitable no later than the fourth quarter of 2001," said President and CEO Dimitri Boylan, in a statement. Outside of the charge, the company said it remains comfortable with first-quarter estimates. Shares closed up 25 cents, or 4.8 percent, to $5.50 ahead of the news.
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), March 26, 2001.
March 27, 2001 Hagger firing 600.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), March 27, 2001.
3/27/01 FL - South Daytona area printing plant closing, 225 jobs affected The nation’s manufacturing slowdown hit home Monday when 225 workers at the R. R. Donnelley printing plant learned their jobs in South Daytona will be phased out by the end of April. The cutback will begin next week as preparations start for shifting some of Donnelley’s printing equipment from 3100 S. Ridgewood Ave. to other locations
-- Doris (nocents@bellsouth.net), March 27, 2001.
Delphi auto parts maker: *Additional* 3900 workers "idled"[(March 26, 2001 2:54 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) ...Delphi, which idled about 4,000 workers for last week, said this week's temporary layoffs would affect about 1,500 workers in Ohio, about 670 in Michigan, 620 in Alabama, 570 in New York, 360 in Indiana, 180 in Mississippi and about 70 in Wisconsin...Delphi, the world's largest auto parts maker, has about 71,000 U.S. workers, including 51,000 hourly ones... ]
-- Andre Weltman (aweltman@state.pa.us), March 27, 2001.
KC Southern RR: 170 employees(The Kansas City Star, 26 Mar 2001, http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/business.pat,business/37753af5.326,.h tml)
Kansas City Southern Industries Inc...plans to lay off about 170 employees, or 6 percent of the railroad's work force, in response to the recent economic slowdown... The company also is asking 75 midlevel managers to participate in a temporary, voluntary salary reduction program that would trim wages by 1 percent to 3 percent...
-- Andre Weltman (aweltman@state.pa.us), March 27, 2001.
MarchFirst Inc. is expected to announce layoffs of up to half of its work force, or about 3,500 employees, by the end of this week, executives close to the company said yesterday.The battered technology consulting firm, which was formed from the combination of USWeb/CKS and Whitman Hart two years ago, has already laid off more than 2,000 workers the last six months to try to cut costs and shift its focus from fading dot-com clients to more reliable established companies.
http://www.nytimes.com/auth/chk_login
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), March 27, 2001.
March 27, 2001 Ericsson 3300 employees. 3% of workforce.March 27, 2001 J. P. Morgan cutting 50 bankers.
March 27, 2001 Viant closing 3 offices. Laying off 211 employees.
March 27, 2001 Nokia cutting 400 at its networks division
March 27, 2001 Homebase cut jobs & not filling positions.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), March 27, 2001.
March 27, 2001 Aiwa may fire 50% of their global workforce.March 27, 2001 idealab! Europe may be closing.
March 27, 2001 SelectLaw.com may be closing its doors this Friday.
March 27, 2001 FacilityPro.com laid off 30 & the founder quit
March 27, 2001 Urban Cool's closed. They planned to install free Internet access kiosks in public places in ethnic minority areas.
March 27, 2001 CreativePlanet may be laying off 150 or 256
March 27, 2001 Rare Medium may have another round of layoffs.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), March 27, 2001.
March 27, 2001 American Greetings 1500.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), March 27, 2001.
Tuesday, March 27, 2001 4:34PM ESTLOS ANGELES -- Citing the 'increasingly pressing challenges of the softening economic environment,' Walt Disney Co. sent an e- mail to employees Tuesday indicating that it plans to reduce the company's world-wide work force by 4,000.
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), March 27, 2001.
"March 27, 2001 Homebase cut jobs & not filling positions."My neighbor has worked for HomeBase for 6 years. They are closing the store but reopening up as a furniture/home improvement store. They are liquidating the store and plan to close and reopen again in April. However, he was NOT rehired because of his age? His current salary? Benefits? Good questions to ask, but we read between the lines!
They plan to hire college students at a lower wage and offer less benefits. Being 60 years old and looking for a new job sucks!
-- laid off sucks! (laidoffsucks@laidoff.sucks), March 27, 2001.
March 27, 2001 Nortel announced it is laying off another 5,000.
-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), March 28, 2001.
March 28, 2001 Palm laying off 250.I know that you all posted the following layoff announcements but I am listing them again because it seems to me that the "bounce" upwards in the stock markets the past few days is not based on any good fundamentals since these layoffs are continuing the way they are??
March 28, 2001 Drug emporium states it will have to lay off unknown number of employees and will close 51 of 131 stores as it files Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Selling remaining 80 stores to Snyder.
March 28, 2001 Nortel Slashes Estimates: 5,000 More Job Cuts.
March 28, 2001 Disney to cut 4,000 jobs.
March 28, 2001 Chinadotcom to cut 16% or 400 (in China).
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), March 28, 2001.
March 28, 2001 HotJobs.com laid off about 100 workers as predicted earlierMarch 28, 2001 Office.com laid off 150 of 200 employees. May close prior to summer. Parent company Wistar is debt in billions and may close soon after
March 28, 2001 AskJeeves.com may be laying off this week.
March 28, 2001 WeddingChannel.com may be closing
March 28, 2001 Brainbench fired 40% of their workforce.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), March 28, 2001.
March 28, 2001 Sanyo 6000.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), March 28, 2001.
March 28, 2001 ADC Telecom laying off 3000 to 4000.March 28, 2001 Homebase. To return to this one, news says 2780 employees or 28% of workforce. Closing 26 stores.
"Expert" says Ericsson needs to lay off 10,000 to return to profitability.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), March 28, 2001.
Ericsson had supply-side problems
throughout the year 2000 ::::-§
-- spider (spider0@usa.net), March 28, 2001.
VTech suffers on warningBy Gautam Malkani in London Published: March 26 2001 10:58GMT | Last Updated: March 27 2001 09:13GMT
Shares in VTech Holdings fell 42 per cent in London on Monday after the Hong Kong-based consumer electronics company warned that its profits would be hit largely by losses at a telephone business bought last year from Lucent Technologies.
It also announced a sweeping restructuring programme to cut $30m from annual costs that will see the loss of 4,500 jobs - or 16 per cent of its workforce - mostly from the closure of a Mexican factory obtained as part of the Lucent acquisition.
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc? pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3WW2B3SKC&live=true&tagid=ZZZC00L1B0C&su bheading=information%20technology
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), March 28, 2001.
SciQuest has announced plans to eliminate 30 percent of its work force as part of an effort to refocus the company's business model and extend its cash position. The company employs about 270 people.
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), March 28, 2001.
March 29, 2001 Lockheed Martin 600 employees.March 29, 2001 Lazard LLC 60 employees for total of 110 laid off.
March 29, 2001 PC Connections 125 jobs.
March 29, 2001 Insurance Auto Eliminating unspecified number.
March 29, 2001 Isuzu stated they will be making "massive" cost reductions including layoffs by May.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), March 29, 2001.
March 29 - Privately operated prison cutting 200 jobs in YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, about 45 percent of its 449-member staff, and more cuts could be ahead.March 29 - BEACON JOURNAL STAFF PROTESTS LAYOFFS of a photographer, an artist, and eight reporters beginning April 3. John L. Dotson Jr., the newspaper's publisher, has said the layoffs were designed to meet financial goals set by Knight Ridder. The paper's advertising revenue has dropped because of the slowing economy.
March 29 - San Francisco-based iMotors, an online direct seller of used vehicles, has laid off 30 percent of its work force -- or around 200 employees -- and is closing 15 to 20 underperforming delivery locations nationwide, a company spokesperson confirmed today.
-- Doris (nocents@bellsouth.net), March 29, 2001.
OH: HAMILTON — Krupp Hoesch Suspensions, which builds suspension coils for automobiles, announced Wednesday it will close its plant on Berk Boulevard, leaving more than half its 106 employees without jobs by May 31.
-- spider (spider0@usa.net), March 29, 2001.
Marks & Spencer is to axe up to 5,000 jobs - most of them abroad - in a radical restructuring aimed at halting its slump in sales.The group, which has seen its profits plunge over the past two years, said today more than 1,000 jobs will go in Britain, including some 350 at its head office in Baker Street.
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), March 29, 2001.
March 29, 2001 Delphi firing 11,500 jobs or 5% worldwide, close 9 factories and consolidate workforces at 40 locations. Delphi will cut 7,600 jobs in the U.S. & 3,900 worldwide.March 29, 2001 Venator closing 323 Northern Reflections stores. Firing 700 full time and 2300 part time employees.
March 29, 2001 Gateway closing 27 stores. Unspecified # of job cuts.
March 29, 2001 Novatel Wireless 80 jobs.
March 29, 2001 Northpoint Wireless closed.
March 29, 2001 Danone closing 6 stores & firing 1200 employees.
March 29, 2001 Concord ESS laying off 10%.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), March 29, 2001.
March 29, 2001 Marks & Spencers firing 5000 employees & closing American operations.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), March 29, 2001.
March 29, 2001 Converse closed N.C. & Texas plants & laid off all 475. Chuck Taylor All Star shoes will now be made overseas & not have "Made in USA" that's been stamped in heel of shoe for over 80 years.March 29, 2001 Organic may have a second round of layoffs today.
March 29, 2001 Beenz.com laid off over 180 people (70%) have been laid off or quit in the past few months
March 29, 2001 Zelerate.com closed.
March 29, 2001 ZipRealty.com may lay off 60 people or 35%.
March 29, 2001 Store of Knowledge with 130 toy stores nationwide may file Chapter 11 this week.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), March 29, 2001.
Thursday March 29, 6:21 PM EST BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (Reuters) - Kellogg Co. (K), the No. 1 U.S. producer of cold cereals, said on Thursday that it was cutting 470 jobs at Keebler Foods Co., the cookie and cracker maker that it completed purchasing three days ago.
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), March 29, 2001.
Thursday March 29, 11:07 AM ESTBy Jamie LaReau
NEW YORK, March 29 (Reuters) - Steel tube producer NS Group Inc. (NSS) said on Thursday it is discontinuing some steel production by shutting two plants and cutting nearly one-fourth of its work force, in a restructuring plan aimed at focusing more on products for the energy industry.
The Newport, Ky., company said its board had approved a plan to discontinue steel production at its plant in Wilder, Ky., and halt production of special bar-quality products at its plant in Koppel, Pa.
As a result, NS said it will eliminate 380 jobs - 300 at Newport Steel and 80 at Koppel - representing about 24 percent of its work force of 1,600.
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), March 29, 2001.
Rejecting its Canadian-born line of casual-wear shops, retailer Venator Group Inc. of New York said it is closing all of its Northern Reflections outlets in the United States, firing more than 3,000 employees and turning the brand into a Canada-only chain.
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), March 29, 2001.
San Francisco-based Citadon, an online exchange for the building and engineering industries, recently laid off 75 employees -- about 20 percent of its staff -- a company spokesperson confirmed today.
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), March 29, 2001.
RESTON (Reuters) - Cysive Inc. (CYSV.O), a developer of e- commerce sites and other business software, on Friday said it will cut 90-95 jobs, or about 30 percent its work force, in a move to reduce costs. The job cuts will result in a related pre-tax charge in the first quarter of $1 million to $1.5 million, the company said in a press release.Reston, Va.-based Cysive said it expects to save between $8 million and $10 million annually with the job cuts.
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), March 30, 2001.
March 30, 2001 Warnaco 1000 layoffs. Closing plant.March 30, 2001 PlanetRX.com Liquidating.
March 30, 2001 Bluemartini Software laying off 30 to 40. 18%.
March 30, 2001 C-Col.net 600
March 30, 2001 PRI Automative 70 layoffs. 20%.
March 29, 2001 U.S. Bankcorp Piper Jaffray 60 layoffs.
March 29, 2001 Concord EFS 250 layoffs.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), March 30, 2001.
Forbes.com has a Layoff summary for the big companies, see:http://www.forbes.com/2001/01/30/layoffs.html
-- Andre Weltman (aweltman@state.pa.us), March 30, 2001.
DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co. will cut one shift, or about 830 jobs, from a highly profitable sport utility vehicle factory in response to slowing sales.The moves at Ford's Michigan Truck plant in Wayne, Mich., the latest in a string of job cuts in the shaky auto industry, comes just as the company pushes new versions of its Explorer SUV and deals with the aftermath of the Firestone tire recall.
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), March 30, 2001.
March 31, 2001 Exide closing 2 plants. Report didn't specify how many employees would be affected.March 31, 2001 Georgia-Pacific closing it's Bellingham pulp and chemical operations affecting 420 employees.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), March 31, 2001.
KIRKLAND -- ImageX.com Inc., a Kirkland company that provides commercial printing services over the Internet, has laid off an additional 85 staff from its work force in a cost-cutting move.The company has cut 17 percent of its staff, up to 125 people, since the beginning of the year, it said in an announcement yesterday morning. ImageX.com now has 674 employees.
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), March 31, 2001.
April 2, 2001 Dupont 4000 employees. 150 contract workers. Close some polyester plants.April 2, 2001 Ameritrade 170 employees.
April 2, 2001 Commscope 13%.
April 2, 2001 International Fibercom 11%.
April 2, 2001 Sipex 4%.
April 2, 2001 Oplink Communications 166 employees.
April 2, 2001 12 (ITWO) 10%.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), April 02, 2001.
April 2, 2001 MTVi may layoff entire staff of SonicNet.com Tuesday.April 2, 2001 mPN333 apparently closed.
April 2, 2001 Wine.com apparently closing.
April 2, 2001 Balthaser laid off almost everyone.
April 2, 2001 Rivals.com laying off most of staff. May be closing this week.
April 2, 2001 PeoplePC laid off 50 employees.
April 2, 2001 Hire.com may have fired 60 out of their 160 employees
April 2, 2001 Razorfish may have another round of layoffs.
April 2, 2001 Ogilvy & Mather laying off 50 to 100 due to lower ads from Motorola/IBM
April 2, 2001 ClickRadio.com laid off 30
April 2, 2001 PrimaryKnowledge.com laid off 14.
April 2, 2001 Infolibria.com may be laying off.
April 2, 2001 LifeMinders.com may have laid off half of sales force
April 2, 2001 Imagex.com may be firing 140-150
April 2, 2001 Matranet may cease operations today & layoff about 100
April 2, 2001 OnMoney.com may be laying off 30 to 90.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), April 02, 2001.
Dow Jones FRANKFURT.Electronics company Grundig on Friday said it will cut around 900 jobs as part of a restructuring program aimed at boosting the company's profitability.
The Nuremberg-based company, best known for its televisions and radios, will cut some 600 positions at its headquarters and more than 200 at its plant in the southern German city of Bayreuth.
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), April 02, 2001.
NEW YORK (CNNfn) - Ariba Inc., which makes Web-based procurement software, said Monday its second-quarter revenues will be significantly lower than previously anticipated and the company now expects to lose money for the quarter.Ariba also announced plans to cut a third of its workforce, and terminate its expected merger with Agile Software (AGIL: Research, Estimates), originally valued at $2.6 billion.
The company blamed a slowdown in both the economy and technology spending for causing an unexpected drop off in sales.
Ariba said it will cut 700 jobs to reduce spending and will also incur "significant one-time write-offs relating to, among other things, investments and real estate commitments."
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), April 02, 2001.
Publication date: 2001-04-02NEW YORK (CNNfn) - DuPont Co. said Monday it was cutting 4,000 jobs, or about 4 percent of its work force, due to weakness in its key textile and apparel markets.
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), April 02, 2001.
April 2, 2001, 4:15 p.m. PT SAN JOSE, Calif.--Redback Networks, a maker of computer-networking and fiber-optic equipment, said it had a first-quarter loss on lower- than-expected sales and will fire about 150 workers, or 13 percent of its staff. The shares dropped as much as 17 percent.
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), April 02, 2001.
March 3, 2001 Alcatel 1100 or 5% of workforce.March 3, 2001 Inktomi 25% of workforce.
March 3, 2001 Compaq 600 employees.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), April 03, 2001.
Alcatel, Compaq & Inktomi should be APRIL 3 NOT MARCH 3 :)
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), April 03, 2001.
March 16, 2001 Aperian, Inc. is reducing its nationwide workforce by 12% or 39 positions.March 16, 2001 Blue Diamond Growers, the world's largest almond business, cut 60.
March 16, 2001 Farmers Insurance Group is laying off 180 employees at its Northwest Side facility & will close service centers in Columbus & Carlsbad, Calif. cutting total of 310.
March 16, 2001 Computer Sciences Corp. will cut 700 to 900 jobs.
March 16, 2001 Concero Inc. laying off 130.
March 16, 2001 Divine Inc. A merger of Divine Global Services & Xqsite will result in 34 layoffs.
March 16, 2001 Icron Systems Inc. is reducing its staff to an absolute minimum. It is expected that a full time staff of four people will be sufficient to continue the sales and marketing.
March 16, 2001 ITF Optical Technologies Inc. is reducing its workforce by 128 people.
March 16, 2001 KOZ.com closing New York office & layoff 35 more employees. Total is 77
March 16, 2001 lowestfare.com laid off 35%.
March 16, 2001 Linuxgruven.com, a Linux training company that shut its doors abruptly last week, laid off 133 of its 153 employees.
March 16, 2001 Tenfold Corp., which laid off 200 people & closed three offices in Nov. has cut another 50 jobs, shut down more offices & sold a subsidiary to raise cash.
March 16, 2001 Kennametal Inc. laid off 40.
March 16, 2001 Emmis Communications is cutting 120 jobs from 15-station television division.
March 16, 2001 AVT, a telecommunications company in Kirkland is laying off 70 or 14%.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), April 03, 2001.
April 4, 2001 Broadvision 325 or 15%.April 4, 2001 Raytheon 450.
April 4, 2001 Ariba firing 700.
April 4, 2001 Micro Strategy 600.
April 4, 2001 Reback Networks 150.
April 4, 2001 Interliant 14%.
April 4, 2001 Rare Medium 25%.
April 4, 2001 Ford eliminating night shift at plant.
April 4, 2001 NEC closing cell plant in Mexico.
April 4, 2001 Globalstar may close if no new financing.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), April 03, 2001.
April 4, 2001 Fandom.com closed.April 4, 2001 Boxingland.com may be closed.
April 4, 2001 zap.com closed.
April 4, 2001 Tellme.com laid off about 50 people -- 20%
April 4, 2001 Outpost.com. laid off 24.
April 4, 2001 Be, Inc. laid off 25%.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), April 03, 2001.
April 4, 2001 Visa is laying off 160 people -- 5%.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), April 03, 2001.
NORTH ANDOVER, Mass., April 3 — Lucent Technologies Inc. said it expects to lay off 1,000 workers statewide, double the amount of cuts previously announced.
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), April 04, 2001.
March 17, 2001 Murray Inc. lawnmowers is shutting down its manufacturing & stamping plant in Jackson, Tenn. is laying off 119 people & farming out work to two other plants in Tennessee.March 17, 2001 Utenzi Inc. laid off 42 or a third work force & said it is close to being acquired.
March 17, 2001 MindArrow Systems Inc. laid off 9 of 105 workers Friday.
March 17, 2001 Exabyte Corp. cut 200 jobs at Boulder headquarters & cutting 50 overseas.
March 17, 2001 Brad Foote Gear Works Inc./Pittsburgh Gear laid off 60 & Additional layoffs will reduce the staff to 14.
March 17, 2001 SCP Global Technologies laid off 73 workers.
March 17, 2001 Southco Inc. laid off more than 10% of its national work force or 160 people.
March 17, 2001 RSL Communications Limited/RSL Com USA laid off 137 workers nationwide and sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from creditors.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), April 04, 2001.
April 3, 2001 Solectron to cut 750 full-time jobs, or 1 pct work force NEW YORK, April 3 (Reuters) - Solectron Corp., the world's largest electronics manufacturer-for-hire, on Tuesday said it will cut 750 full-time jobs, or about 1 percent of its work force, as it closes its Suwanee, Georgia facility, citing lower customer demand. http://www.zdii.com/industry_list.asp? mode=news&doc_id=RTN034770054221&pic=Y
April 3, 2001, CO - Level 3 Communications announced Tuesday it will cut 325 employees, or about 6 percent of its staff, during the next few weeks.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-5465758.html?tag=lh
April 3, 2001, WA - Onyx fires 110 employees in profit drive Bellevue-based Onyx Software Corp. has cut 17 percent of its work force in an attempt to cut costs, the company said after the stock market closed Tuesday. The company simultaneously warned that it will fail to reach revenue expectations in its first quarter, ended March 31, and will lose more than it previously had forecast.
http://seattle.bcentral.com/seattle/stories/2001/04/02/daily21.html
-- Doris (nocents@bellsouth.net), April 04, 2001.
April 3, 2001 LA - Stanley Door Systems closing will cost 111 jobs San Dimas plant began layoffs in December; remaining employees will get severance packages, help finding new work.http://www.latimes.com/communities/news/pomona_valley/20010403/tiv0013 050.html
-- Doris (nocents@bellsouth.net), April 04, 2001.
April 4, 2001 Mattel closing plant. Firing 980.April 4, 2001 Firepond laying off 170 or 1/5th of workforce.
April 4, 2001 TheStreet.com firing 40.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), April 04, 2001.
April 4, 2001 WebVan's close to closing.April 4, 2001 ColumbiaHouse.com. 42 employees,
April 4, 2001 MicroStrategy. 600 workers, one-third of workforce.
April 4, 2001 CareerBuilder.com L.A. closed. Fired all staff.
April 4, 2001 eCircles.com closing April 15, 2001.
April 4, 2001 Juno may file for bankruptcy in the next two weeks
April 4, 2001 Answers.com may have fired 50% to 100%
April 4, 2001 Taos.com having "emergecy meeting" which happened last time they laid off people.
April 4, 2001 Netcentives fired 120 or 25%.
April 4, 2001 Oxygen laid off 30 people were laid off from NY offices.
April 4, 2001 BarPoint.com is going to lay off 20% Friday.
April 4, 2001 Siegelgale may have cut 50 people 25% of the N.Y. office . April 4, 2001 Freerein.com fired 50%.
April 4, 2001 Internet.com is laying off 50.
April 4, 2001 AnswerThink going to lay off this week.
April 4, 2001 Stellcom's closed their Seattle and Phoenix offices and laid off most of their engineers in the Los Angeles office.
April 4, 2001 Starmedia Broadband shutting S.F. office. fired everyone.
April 4, 2001 Citigroup laid off hundreds.
April 4, 2001 iExchange closed.
April 4, 2001 4Sure.com firing 40 people or 20%.
April 4, 2001 eFanShop.com closed.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), April 04, 2001.
April 5, 2001 Savervalu firing 4000.April 5, 2001 Winstar firing 2000
April 5, 2001 Ace Case Express closing 84 stores.
April 5, 2001 Charles Schwab laying off 180.
April 5, 2001 Akamai laying off 182.
April 5, 2001 Watchguard laying off 50 or 16%.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), April 05, 2001.
March 20, 2001 Wabash National Corp.cut 500 jobs.March 20, 2001 Air Products and Chemicals Inc. laid off 200 to 250 in Europe U.S.
March 20, 2001 Vanderbilt Chemicals will layoff 45 employees.
March 20, 2001 Farmer John Meats closed Arizona division & layed off half its 100 employees.
March 20, 2001 Adaptec, Inc. laid off 450 positions or 20%.
March 20, 2001 Affinity Technology Group, Inc. reduced its work force by 12 or one-third.
March 20, 2001 Creative Technology Ltd. laid off 400 or 10% of its staff worldwide & will also close a plant in Malvern, Penn.
March 20, 2001 Dot Hill Systems Corp. laid off 90 employees or 30.
March 20, 2001 OOP laid off a small number of its 58 employees.
March 20, 2001 Talk City Marketing Group laid off 50 employees or 30%
March 20, 2001 Xpedior will close four offices and lay off 300 employees, or 42%. The company said it has enough cash to stay in business until June 30.
March 20, 2001 FSI International Inc. laid off 155 employees or 16%.
March 20, 2001 Corixa will lay off 10 to 15.
March 20, 2001 Brightpoint Inc. will lay off about 200 out of 900.
March 20, 2001 Global One will lay off 100 employees or 2%.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), April 06, 2001.
April 6, 2001 Ironbridgenetworks.com closed.April 6, 2001 Red Herring may lay off 6%.
April 6, 2001 Rational Software will lay off 400 or 10%
April 6, 2001 Buildnet will lay off 170 employees or 2/3 of staff.
April 6, 2001 zUniversity laid off 120 of 140 people including entire tech staff.
April 6, 2001 TiVo laid off 80 people or 25% of workforce
April 6, 2001 CalendarCentral closed.
April 6, 2001 Third Voice closed
April 6, 2001 ComputerWare closing after 16 years
April 6, 2001 Pittard Sullivan closed
April 6, 2001 CBSnews.com laid of 22 out of roughly 40 employees
April 6, 2001 iDolls.com is closing.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), April 06, 2001.
April 6, 2001 Agilent cutting wages 10% for 3 months to avoid layoffs.April 6, 2001 Extreme Networks making cuts.
April 6, 2001 BMC Software 6% of 7300 employees.
April 6, 2001 PCD to cut jobs.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), April 06, 2001.
04/06/01, 3:58 p.m. ET) ReutersOnline software retailer Egghead.com Inc. (stock: EGGS) said it has eliminated 178 positions, or about 29 percent of its workforce, as part of its effort to earn a profit this year. Egghead said the move affected 12 full-time, temporary and contract workers in its Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters, and 157 full-time, temporary, and contract workers at its Vancouver, Wash. facilities.
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), April 06, 2001.
March 21, 2001 ReFlex Communications laid off as many as 250.March 21, 2001 Milacron will eliminate 300 jobs, or about 5% of North American work force.
March 21, 2001 Roper Industries Incorporated/PetroTech Inc. is laying off an unspecified number of workers.
March 21, 2001 Simon Pearce has laid off 11 workers. The layoffs are the first in Simon Pearce's 30-year history.
March 21, 2001 Trinity Industries will lay off 128 Tarrant County workers in May
March 21, 2001 The News of Boca Raton has laid off 18 staffers.
March 21, 2001 Northrop Grumman laying off. Employees will receive a 60-day notice of their last day on April 3. Layoffs begin in three phases in June on the first, 15th & 30th.
March 21, 2001 Christie's Inter. will fold its lower-price auction unit into its main business & cause an undisclosed number of layoffs. Analysts suggested the decision may signify the beginning of a slowdown in the art auction world.
March 21, 2001 TeleTech Inc will lay off 219 employees in May.
March 21, 2001 Putnam Investments, the fourth-biggest US mutual fund group, has laid off less than 100 workers.
March 21, 2001 eCollege will lay off 35 of its 330 workers
March 21, 2001 Javelin Solutions laid off 22 or 90 or about 25%. HIGH TECHNOLOGY
March 21, 2001 Jawz Inc.will cut up to 100 jobs and eliminate three non-performing regions
March 21, 2001 N2H2 cut 51 people or 23%, the third layoff in the past seven months.
March 22, 2001 Cypress Communications Inc. laying off 200 workers, or half its workforce.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), April 07, 2001.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Japan electronics giant NEC Corp. said Friday that it was cutting 700 jobs in the United States as a result of the severe downturn in demand for semiconductors.
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), April 07, 2001.
LONDON: Britain's largest telecommunications manufacturer, Marconi, will this week announce it is cutting 3,000 jobs worldwide as the economic slowdown bites, the Financial Times reported Monday.
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), April 08, 2001.
April 9, 2001 Goodyear closing Mexican plant. firing 1559 employees.April 9, 2001 IAsiaworks laying off 25%.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), April 09, 2001.
NEW YORK -- NBC is shutting down its loss-ridden Internet subsidiary, acknowledging that any hopes of it becoming profitable had vaporized along with the online advertising market. Many of the 300 jobs there will be eliminated as the unit's assets are integrated into NBC.
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), April 09, 2001.
Get A Grip Martin, we can pick out all the bad stories, but there are more wonderful stories to be told. Your choice......
-- My Story (andIam@sticking.com), April 09, 2001.
I want to know why there is ALWAYS someone who comes into boards like this one with comments like the last one! If you don't like rooms like this don't come in and don't post your opinions. Many of us appreciate Martin's postings and this room.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), April 10, 2001.
April 10, 2001 Siemens firing 2000.April 20, 2001 Esterline firing 100.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), April 10, 2001.
"Get A Grip Martin, we can pick out all the bad stories, but there are more wonderful stories to be told. Your choice......-- My Story (andIam@sticking.com), April 09, 2001.
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-- boom (biddieboom@badaboom.boom), April 10, 2001.
Keep up the great work, Martin.This morning BBC is saying Marconi is to axe 1500 jobs in UK.
-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), April 10, 2001.
April 10, 2001 iSyndicate layed off 87 employees or 50%.April 10, 2001 BlueVector: MarchFirst closed it's venture capital arm, BlueVector.
April 10, 2001 nua.net apparently closed.
April 10, 2001 Greenhouseforstartups.com closed.
April 10, 2001 Excite@home may lay off 800 more
April 10, 2001 Multitude.com closed.
April 10, 2001 Balducci.com closed.
April 10, 2001 Gomez.com laid off 42.
April 10, 2001 EnvoyWorldWide.com may have laid off half of staff.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), April 10, 2001.
WEST BRIDGEWATER -- Citing declining sales, Chadwick’s of Boston Inc. announced yesterday it will cut 300 people from its West Bridgewater and Taunton facilities, starting the first two weeks of May.The 300-person layoff, equivalent to about 20 percent of the company’s workforce, will target employees in the company’s order fulfillment centers, 819 of whom work at the Constitution Drive facility in Taunton.
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), April 11, 2001.
April 11, 2001 Motorola laying off 3000. I'm not sure if this is part of previously announced layoff plans or if these are additional to those since Motorola had greater losses than expected.April 11, 2001 Pricewaterhousecooper laying off 1000.
April Intermet laying off unspecified number of employees.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), April 11, 2001.
April 11, 2001 TheGlobe.com fired 57April 11, 2001 Rivals.com closed. 300 employees lost jobs.
April 11, 2001 Critical path laid off 450, including the president. 2/3rds of their 77 offices worldwide will close.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), April 11, 2001.
German telecoms group Siemens is to cut about a quarter of the workforce at its three German mobile handset plants because of slowing growth in the sector. The 2,000 job cuts would be achieved by not renewing fixed term contracts and there would be no compulsory redundancies.
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), April 11, 2001.
AFX News Limited April 11, 2001FREMONT, CA (AFX) - LAM Research Corp said it plans to cut its global staff by around 15 pct from this month, adding sales fell 15 pct from the prior quarter as customers cancelled our postponed chip equipment deliveries.
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), April 11, 2001.
Seattle-based Loudeye, which at this time last year celebrated a $72 million initial public offering with an elaborate party that encompassed a city block, slashed its 300-member work force by 45 percent.
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), April 12, 2001.
April 12, 2001 Yahoo laying off 420 people, or 12% of 3,510.April 12, 2001 Kozmo.com closing Immediately. Firing 1,100.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), April 12, 2001.
April 10, 2001 Putnam Investments layig off 256.April 10, 2001 Goodyear subsidiary layig off 100.
April 10, 2001 Pumatech laying off 65.
April 11, 2001 Marshall & Ilsley Bank closing 6 offices. Laying off 400.
April 11, 2001 Art Technologies laying off 12%.
April 11, 2001 LSI Logic closing plant. Unspecified number layoffs.
April 11, 2001 Scient laying off 52%.
April 11, 2001 Advanced Energy laying off 10%.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), April 12, 2001.
April 12, 2001 AT&T Wireless may soon layoff 6,000 employees.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), April 12, 2001.
March 23, 2001 Kansas City Southern Industries will lay off 170 or 6% of its 3,000 workers.March 23, 2001 Trinity Industries of Dallas will close its cement-mixing equipment plant in south Fort Worth & fire 28 welders, fitters, assemblers and others.
March 23, 2001 Merix Corp. will lay off 115 or 10% and put proposed plant expansion on hold.
March 23, 2001 coolsavings.com inc. fired 67 persons or 24%
March 23, 2001 The Farmland Foods processing plant in Minn. will lay off 90.
March 24, 2001 Falcon Shoe laying off 40 of 200 employees, a cutback linked partly to a worldwide leather shortage arising from outbreaks of mad cow and foot-and-mouth disease.
March 24, 2001 American Skandia laying off 150 employees.
March 24, 2001 ClearAccess Communications Inc. laid off 17.
March 24, 2001 Metatec International has cut 38 jobs, or 8% in Dublin.
March 24, 2001 Proxicom Inc. laying off 227 employees, or 19%.
March 24, 2001 Produits Chimiques Expro Inc. laid off 100 of 450
March 24, 2001 JPM Company Inc. fired 275 workers at 3 central Penn manufacturing plants.
March 24, 2001 Kysor/Warren Corp., maker of refrigeration equipment for grocery stores, is shutting down & laying off its 218 employees May 19.
March 24, 2001 Christian Broadcasting Network Inc. The television home of broadcaster and businessman Pat Robertson is smiting 50 jobs or 5% at its Virginia Beach headquarters.
March 24, 2001 Electric Lightwave Inc. plans to cut another 30 jobs -- all in Vancouver. It's the second round of layoffs this year. Since the start of 2000, 385 jobs have been eliminated at ELI and Vancouver's other big telecom companies.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), April 13, 2001.
Computerworld4/11/01Jennifer DiSabatino, Computerworld
E-mail outsourcer Critical Path Inc. has reorganized from the top down -- again.
The reorganization at the San Francisco-based company resulted in the layoff of 450 employees, including seven executives. Among the managers let go were President Diana Whitehead, who had been appointed to the job two months ago, and Mari Tangredi, vice president of business development.
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), April 14, 2001.
Indebted Eel River Sawmills can't continue without purchase By John Driscoll The Times-StandardEel River Sawmills Inc. is $45 million dollars in debt, and announced Friday that if it can't sell its assets, it will be defunct on May 31.
That's when 145 employees at the sawmill's Fortuna and Alton mills, and 20 at the Fairhaven Power Co. will no longer have a job, unless the purchase of the company by one or more outside companies goes through. About 130 employees have already been laid off from the company's Redcrest facilities.
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), April 14, 2001.
April 15, 2001 Merrill Lynch expanding layoffs.
-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), April 15, 2001.
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/economy/layoffs.asp?siteid=mktwGood sight where there are lists of what company and how many layoffs for the months of March. Says March has been the worse layoff in recent history.
-- CAkidd (CAkidd@94520.com), April 15, 2001.
"Eel River Sawmills Inc. is $45 million dollars in debt, and announced Friday that if it can't sell its assets, it will be defunct on May 31."PG&E owes them $$$$$. How many more creditors will be going out of business because of PG&E's bankruptcy filing?
-- CAkidd (CAkidd@94520.com), April 15, 2001.
End of threadPlease post here List of Layoffs VII
-- spider (spider0@usa.net), April 15, 2001.