Motorola global marketing chief exits January 28, 2009
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Motorola corporate vice president for marketing, Jeremy Dale, will become the latest executive to leave the struggling manufacturer at the end of this month.It is thought that Dale will pursue a career in the UK, but is not known if he has a job to go to. His current reports will report to senior vice president and business general manager for Greater China, Bruce Brda, until a possible replacement is found. Dale, a former Orange marketing executive, joined Motorola in 2005 and took the top marketing job in March 2007. A year later, he was promoted following Casey Keller’s resignation, after Keller’s job was absorbed by two executives: Dale, and Eduardo Conrado.
Dale was formerly VP of retail marketing at Motorola Mobile Devices and was involved in promoting Motorola’s three-year advertising and retail collaboration with David Beckham, and promoted the Motorola Red products, part of a campaign to fight AIDS in Africa. Earlier this month, Motorola announced that it is cutting a further 3,000 jobs in addition to the 4,000 it announced last year.
Motorola Planning Huge Job Cuts in Handset Division January 14, 2009
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Motorola is reported to be planning huge job cuts at its handsets division amid a cut-back in the number of phones the company plans to launch during this year. The phone news site, PhoneScoop also reported that the company may decide not to have a display stand at the CTIA Wireless trade show in April. The website was citing an unnamed source at the company.
The job cuts are said to be significant – and could amount to half the staff at the handset division.At the end of last year, the firm announced plans to cut a further 400 jobs on top of the 1,500 cuts announced in October. The earlier termination of approximately 1,500 employees, primarily in the Mobile Devices segment will result in pre-tax charges of $104 million in the fourth quarter of 2008.
Last August, the firm recruited former Qualcomm exec, Sanjay Jha to head up the handset division and prepare it for a sale – later cancelled. He said in an interview shortly after taking the job that he would seek to implement changes quickly within the company, although he warned that it was too early to tell when phones with his fingerprints would hit the market given the long handset design cycles.
U.K. mobile-phone sector to shed thousands of jobs: report December 30, 2008
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Thousands of workers are expected to lose their jobs across the U.K.’s mobile phone industry in early 2009, the Guardian reports Saturday, without citing sources. According to the report, some of the biggest job cuts should be seen at mobile operator Orange, owned by France Telecom, which employs 12,000 people. Management consultants are being used by a range of firms to advise on cost savings, the newspaper says.
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