Toshiba Slashes 7,000 Jobs, Downgrades Profit Outlook
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published November 08, 2018 | 02:27 PM
The boss of struggling Toshiba said Thursday he would cut 7,000 jobs over the next five years as the Japanese engineering firm pulled out of foreign investments and downgraded its annual profit forecasts.
Tokyo, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 8th Nov, 2018 ) :The boss of struggling Toshiba said Thursday he would cut 7,000 jobs over the next five years as the Japanese engineering firm pulled out of foreign investments and downgraded its annual profit forecasts.
"Over the next five years, we expect a reduction of 7,000 jobs," many coming from early retirement, CEO Nobuaki Kurumatani told reporters in Tokyo.
In addition, efficiency gains from improved IT and the planned retirement of about 3,000 employees every year will contribute to the job cuts, he said.
Toshiba also expects to scrap or consolidate some factories and reduce its subsidiaries by 25 percent -- announcing the withdrawal from a US-based liquid natural gas business and the liquidation of NuGen, a nuclear subsidiary in Britain.
The former Japanese behemoth is going through a sweeping reform effort to revive itself following its disastrous acquisition of US nuclear energy firm Westinghouse, which racked up billions of Dollars in losses before being placed under bankruptcy protection.
For the year to March 2019, the firm said it expected a net profit of 920 billion Yen ($8.1 billion), down from an earlier projection of 1,070 billion yen.
Annual operating profit outlook is now 60 billion yen, down from a previous 70 billion yen forecast, while the sales estimates were kept at 3,600 billion yen.
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