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AgieCharmilles accelerates cuts.


Staying within the electrical-discharge machine sector, leading producer GF AgieCharmilles, part of Switzerland's Georg Fischer Georg Fischer (born 1960) was a West German cross country skier who competed in the 1980s. He finished seventh in the 4 x 10 km relay at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.  group, is using dismissals and early retirements to reduce its workforce by about 340 jobs worldwide or about 10% of the current headcount head count or head·count
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. Half the cuts will be in Switzerland, and two-thirds will be in sales and marketing. The reductions are part of a streamlining plan announced in November, now accelerated by what the company calls adverse market conditions. That plan includes "site specialization A career option pursued by some attorneys that entails the acquisition of detailed knowledge of, and proficiency in, a particular area of law.

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," with wire-cut machines concentrated at the Meyrin (Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland
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) location; die-sinkers and, later, electronics at Losone; and high-speed mills in Nidau (Biel/Bienne).

Georg Fischer A.G., Schaffhausen, Switzerland. 41-52-631-2697.
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Publication:Metalworking Insiders' Report
Date:Jan 20, 2009
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