More Jobs Losses at Glassmaker Pilkington

Date: 9 August 2012
Source: www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk

Date: 9 August 2012

More jobs will go at glassmaker Pilkington as the global economic crisis takes its toll on sales.Parent company Nippon Sheet Glass (NSG) saw quarterly sales fall 3% to £1.08bn and said market conditions were “significantly worse than previously  anticipated”.

NSG said 90 managers and staff had left in March and April this year – and  another 90 would leave by next March from sites in St Helens and Lathom,  Ormskirk. Overall, the group wants to shed 3,500 jobs worldwide by March,  2014.

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