The following future closings and permanent mass layoffs were reported in California.
· Bank of the West is laying off 46 employees on Jan. 31 at 1977 Saturn St. in Monterey Park.
· Cadence Design Systems Inc. is laying off 84 employees on Feb. 4 at 2655 Seely Ave. in San Jose.
· Centinela Freeman Regional Medical Center is laying off 202 employees on Jan. 31 at 333 No. Prairie in Inglewood.
· Construction Metals Inc. is closing down and laying off 102 employees on Feb. 8 at 12968 Santa Ana Ave. in Fontana.
· Countrywide is laying off 73 employees on Feb. 3 at 8501 and 8511 Fallbrook Ave. in Canoga Park.
· Fresno Bee is laying off 58 employees on Jan. 21 at 1626 E. St. in Fresno.
· Giant Merchandising Inc. is closing down and laying off 120 employees on Feb. 5 at 5655 Union Pacific Ave. in East Los Angeles.
· IAP World Services Inc. started laying off 248 employees on Jan. 18 at 7000 East Ave. in Livermore.
· Kmart Corp. is closing down and laying off 90 employees on Jan. 17 at 1739 S. Victoria Ave. in Ventura.
· Lasco Bathware is laying off 149 employees on Jan. 11 at 3261 and 3255 E. Miraloma Ave in Anaheim.
· Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC started laying off 248 employees on Jan. 18 at 7000 East Ave. in Livermore.
· Long Beach Acceptance Corp. is laying off 135 employees on Feb. 1 at 500 North State College Blvd., Suite 350 in Orange.
· Marvell Semiconductor Inc is laying off 4 employees on Jan. 27 at 890 Glenn Dr. in Folsom, another 4 at 10955 Vista Sorrento Parkway, Suite 200, in San Diego, another 10 at 26880 Aliso Viejo Parkway, Suite 100 in Aliso Viejo, and 51 employees at 5488 Marvell Lane in Santa Clara.
· Oldcastle Precast Inc. is closing down and laying off 33 employees on Jan. 23 at 1495 8th St. in Colton.
· Optical Communication Products Inc. is closing down and laying off 130 employees on Jan. 29 at 6101 Variel Ave. in Woodland Hills.
· Option One Mortgage is laying off 157 employees on Feb. 2 at 6501 Irvine Center Dr. in Irvine and another 160 at 3 Ada in Irvine.
· Reliant Manufacturing LLC is closing down and started laying off 54 employees on Jan. 14 at 7390 Lincoln Way in Garden Grove.
· Resmae Mortgage Corp. started laying off 182 employees on Jan. 5 at 6 Point Dr. in Brea.
· SBMC Mortgage is closing down and laying off 46 employees on Feb. 7 at 14761 Califa St. in Van Nuys.
· Scan Health Plan started laying off 33 employees on Jan. 18 at 1770 Iowa Ave., Suite 110 in Riverside, another 33 employees at 2401 E. Katella Ave., #125 in Anaheim, another 41 at 2501 Cherry Ave., #200 in Los Angeles, another 51 at 3800 Kilroy Airport Way, #100 in Long Beach, and 33 at 500 N. Central Ave., #350 in Glendale.
· Sierra Cedar Products LLC is closing down and laying off 66 employees on Feb. 3 at 1401 Melody Road in Olivehurst.
· Target is closing down and laying off 133 employees on Feb. 2 at 1363 West Henderson Ave. in Porterville.
· The Vons Companies Inc. is closing down and laying off 74 employees on Jan. 27 at 2100 White Lane in Bakersfield.
· Veolia Transportation Services Inc. is laying off 82 employees on Jan. 31 at 14663 Keswick St. in Van Nuys.
· Veolia Transportation Services Inc. is closing down and laying off 82 employees on Jan. 31 at 5733 Sheila St. in Commerce.
The following future closings and permanent mass layoffs were reported in Indiana.
· Atwood is closing down and laying off 152 employees in Elkhart in late February or mid March.
· Colgate Palmolive is closing down and laying off 40 employees at 1410 S. Clark Blvd. in Jeffersonville Feb. 29.
· Hurst Manufacturing is laying off 55 employees at 1551 W. Broadway St. in Princeton on March 3.
· International Automotive Components is laying off 233 employees at 200,000-square-foot at 600 S. Kyle St. in Edinburgh on March 17.
· Macy’s-Washington Square Mall is laying off 103 employees at 10202 E. Washington St., # 300, in Indianapolis on March 1.
· Superior Sample Company, Inc. is closing down and laying off 31 employees at 1225 North State Road 25 in Rochester on March 10.
· Trinity Health is closing down and laying off 158 employees at its Our Lady of Holy Cross Care Center at 7520 S. US Highway 421 in San Pierre on Feb. 29.
The following future closings and permanent mass layoffs were reported in Maryland.
· Chestertown Foods Inc. is laying off 143 employees on Feb. 29 at 27030 Morgnec Road in Chestertown.
· Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. is laying off 49 employees on March 30 at 1705 N. Market St. in Frederick.
· Genco is laying off 100 employees on March 31 at 8901 Snowden River Parkway – Gateway Commerce Center 20 in Columbia.
· MV Transportation is closing down and laying off 178 employees on March 1 at 4925 Nicholson Court in Kensington.
The following future closings and permanent mass layoffs were reported in Ohio.
· Meijer Stores is closing its stores at 5800 N. Chantry Drive and 775 Georgesville Road in Columbus and 2741 Harshman Road in Dayton laying off 662 employees starting March 11 and concluding by April 26.
· RadioShack will permanently close its distribution center at 4343 Williams Road in Groveport, laying off 69 employees by May 30.
· Toys R Us is closing its distribution center at 375 Distribution Circle in Fairfield, laying off 68 employees by March 21.
Merix Corp. plans to close its leased manufacturing facility in Wood Village, OR, and transition production to its facility in Forest Grove, OR. Merix expects to fully shutdown operations by March 1, with full closure of its Wood Village facility by the summer of 2008. The closure of the facility and other restructuring actions will result in the elimination of approximately 180 positions.
The following future closings and permanent mass layoffs were reported in Texas.
· Goodyear Tire & Rubber is stopping most non-mix functions at its plant at 13701 State Highway 31 West in Tyler with most layoffs being completed by the end of this month.
· Integrated Logistics Inc. is losing its contract with Wal-Mart and will have to layoff 780 employees at its distribution facility at 4554 E. Greenwood Drive in Baytown by the end of next month.
HouseValues Inc. terminated its 36,134-square-foot lease with Chinook Business Park LLC for the entire office/warehouse building at 1700 N. 6th St. in Yakima, WA. The lease was set to run through October 2010 and it has been paying approximately $19,000/month in rent. It assigned its purchase option and leasehold improvements to an unnamed third party for $1.4 million.
The following future closings and permanent mass layoffs were reported in Washington, DC.
· MVM, Inc. at 425 I St. NW is closing down laying off 51 employees by the end of this month.
· Resources for Human Development, Inc. is laying off 20 employees in the District by the end of this month.
January 24, 2008 at 2:32 pm
National Semiconductor, which is based in Santa Clara, Calif., and employs 500 in South Portland, yesterday said it would eliminate 200 positions at its manufacturing facilities in a bid to modernize its systems, according to a press release.
Most of the job cuts will be at the company’s facilities in Texas and Scotland, but “a small number of positions” will be cut in South Portland, the release said. A spokesperson from National Semiconductor was not immediately available for comment.
January 22, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Mashable confirms 100′s of layoffs per the New York Times. CEO Yang is considering a potential 100 to 2500 layoffs.
PaidContent: NYT expands on upcoming Yahoo layoffs (which we reported on over): it cites sources and says will be “hundreds of employees” out of a total of about 14,000. It says company executives are still trying to determine exactly which areas will be cut and a few variations of a plan would be submitted to the company’s board at a coming meeting.
WSJ also weighs in with a story: Yahoo expects to finish 2008 with about the same number of workers as it had at the end of 2007 while planning to add staff in some areas deemed priorities.
January 22, 2008 at 3:30 am
Silicon Alley Insider reports Yahoo has created a list of 1500 – 2500 employees to be eliminated within 2 weeks.
The “list” is reportedly the product of a Q4 project in which all group heads were asked to look at redundancies and create their own lists of potential cuts. All the group-level lists have now been turned in to corporate.
The decision to go ahead with lay-off is said to be largely dependent on stock price: Yahoo’s stock trading in the low $20s has gotten Jerry’s and president Sue Decker’s attention. Jerry will feel vulnerable if the stock goes into the teens and will try whatever he can to prop it up. He’s not ready to give up the CEO job, sell-out, or shop the company around at this point.
January 20, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Joost headed for the deadpool.
Mathew Ingram wonders tonight if Joost is heading for the deadpool – if utter lack of talk about the company since launch is any indication, I’d have to agree.
January 19, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Seeking to cut costs amid a slowdown, Applied Materials Inc. will reduce its global workforce by approximately 1,000 positions, or about 7 percent of its headcount, through a combination of job elimination and attrition.
January 14, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will be shutting down a plant in Bochum, Germany, resulting in the layoff of 2,300 people. Veli Sundbaeck of Nokia states, “The planned slosure of the Bochum production site is necessary to secure Nokia’s long-term competitiveness…it cannot be operated in a way that meets the requirements for global cost efficiency and for flexible capacity growth.”
January 14, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Big Dog motorcycles laid off 20 employees Friday afternoon, blaming a downturn in the economy.
The Wichita company at 1520 E. Douglas had 261 employees, according to the Wichita Business Journal’s 2007 Book of Lists.
January 7, 2008 at 9:53 pm
