{"id":24624,"date":"2012-10-19T11:22:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T09:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=24624"},"modified":"2012-10-19T15:29:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T13:29:16","slug":"sony-planning-to-cut-more-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/24624\/sony-planning-to-cut-more-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony planning to cut more jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sony Corp<\/a> said it will cut staff in its headquarters by a fifth and shutter a factory making camera lenses and mobile phones in Japan, providing new details of a previously announced plan to trim its global headcount by 10,000 by end-March.<\/p>\n

In addition to 1,800 at a chemical business it sold to a state-run bank in Japan, Sony will let go roughly another 2,000 people from its head office and plant in Gifu, central Japan, Sony said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n

Around another 2,000 workers will be trimmed in Europe, half at a joint mobile phone venture with Ericsson<\/a> it recently ended. The remaining job losses will be at other factories around the world, the company said.<\/p>\n

The maker of PlayStation and Bravia TVs expects the job cuts to save about 30 billion yen ($378.6 million) a year, funds the company needs as it struggles to stem losses in televisions and other consumer electronics operations.<\/p>\n

Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai<\/a>, who took the helm in April, has pledged to revive the once-stellar brand by bolstering gaming, digital imaging and mobile devices as well as by nurturing new business such as medical devices.<\/p>\n

Sony’s stock ended trading Friday at 983 yen, unchanged from the previous closing price. The company’s share price has fallen 42 percent since Hirai took over six months ago.<\/p>\n

($1 = 79.2400 Japanese yen)<\/p>\n

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