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 Nokia's cellphone production runs back and dismiss the 320 employees of its development center. That has the company with a press release announced. The main plant in Salo Finland sends its 2,500 employees into a short spinning, at the ever-20-30 percent of the employees must remain at home. These form part of the unemployment was anchored in the Finnish labor practice and also to the production of the changing demand to be able to adapt. In Salo, all hierarchy levels are affected.
The location is the last major mobile phone factory in western Europe after the production of Nokia in Bochum has made. The Finns are particularly smartphones ago. "We want to shut down production in Salo, and the lower demand in the market to adjust, but the workflow does not stop," says Nokia competent manager Juha Putkiranta. The cuts announced today are part of a tough austerity program, which Nokia had previously announced.
The annual cost of mobile phone production to be reduced by more than 700 million euro to fall, reports the Reuters news agency. The Center for research and development in the south of Finland Jyvaskyla is closed and all 320 employees redundant. The mobile phone development will use existing facilities in Tampere, Oulu, Salo and Helsinki concentrated. Worldwide, though 90 employees of Nokia dismissed.
The figures for the fourth quarter had shown that the boom years for the industry Primus gone. The mobile paragraph in the year fell by 15 percent to 113.1 million units sold. Even compared with the third quarter of 2008, the mobile phone sales rose by 4.7 million units back - in spite of the Christmas business. Nokia's market share shrank from 38 to 37 percent. Even worse it looks when you look at sales and profits. The operating profit fell year on year by 80 percent to 492 million euros.
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