FACTBOX-Mounting job losses in non-financial sectors

Published: 30 Apr 2009 04:29:20 PST

April 30 - Japanese precision equipment maker Fujifilm Holdings Corp said on Thursday it was cutting 5,000 jobs as it forecast a 90 billion yen ($923 million) annual operating loss.

The global financial crisis has claimed more than half a million jobs in non-financial sectors since the start of the year.

Following are details of announced job cuts of 2,000 or more since the beginning of January:

REGION - EUROPE:

COMPANY SECTOR NUMBERS DATE --------------------------------------------------------------

Elcoteq Electronics 5,000 Jan 15

Metro AG Retail 15,000 Jan 20

Philips Electronics 6,000 Jan 26

Corus Steel 3,500 Jan 26

STMicroelectronics Chip maker 4,500 Jan 27

SAP Software 3,300 Jan 28

AstraZeneca Plc Drugmaker 6,000 Jan 29

Atlas Copco Machinery 3,000 Feb 02

SAS Airlines 8,600 Feb 03

Salcomp Telecom 3,300 Feb 10

GKN Plc Aerospace 4,364 Jan/Feb

Severstal Steel 9,000-9,500 Mar 11

Continental Tyre 2,000 Mar 11

Leoni Auto 4,000 Mar 24

Heidelberg Printing 2,500 Mar 26

LyondellBasell Petrochemical 3,000 April 8

Russian Railways Railways 53,700 April 9

Air France-KLM Airlines 2,500-3,000 April 15

Sony Ericsson Mobile phones 2,000 April 17

Stora Enso Paper 2,000 April 23

SCA Paper 2,200 April 28

REGION - NORTH AMERICA:

COMPANY SECTOR NUMBERS DATE --------------------------------------------------------------

Motorola Mobile phones 4,000 Jan 14

Alcoa Inc Aluminum prod 15,000 Jan 06

EMC Corp IT 2,400 Jan 07

Dell IT 1,900-3000 Jan 08

Boeing Co Airlines 4,500 Jan 09

Cessna Aircraft Airlines 2,000 Jan 12

Hertz Global Hldgs Inc Car rental 4,000 Jan 16

Eaton Corp Manufacturer 5,200 Jan 20

Intel Corp IT 6,000 Jan 21

Microsoft Corp IT 5,000 Jan 22

Texas Instruments IT 3,400 Jan 26

Sprint Nextel Corp Telecom 8,000 Jan 26

Home Depot Inc Home

Improvement 7,000 Jan 26

Pfizer Inc Pharma 19,500 Jan 26

Molex Inc Electronics 2,500 Jan 27

Corning Inc Manufacturer 4,900 Jan 27

Jabil Circuit Inc Electronics 3,000 Jan 28

Eastman Kodak Co Camera, printing 4,500 Jan 29

Macy's Inc <M.N> Retail 7,000 Feb 02

Cisco Systems Inc IT 1,500-2000 Feb 04

Estee Lauder Cos Inc Cosmetics 2,000 Feb 05

BorgWarner Inc Auto 4,400 Feb 12

Chrysler LLC Auto 3,000 Feb 17

Goodyear Tyres 5,000 Feb 18

Delta Air Lines Airlines 2,100 Feb 19

Visteon Corp Auto 9,300 Feb 25

Nortel Networks Corp Telecom 3,200 Feb 25

United Technologies

Corp Manufacturing 11,600 Mar 10

PPG Industries Inc Paint maker 2,500 Mar 12

Bluegreen Corp Resorts, sites 3,000 Mar 16

Caterpillar Inc Earth-Moving

Equipment 26,064 Jan/Feb/Mar

MeadWestvaco Corp Packaging 2,278 Jan/Mar

Agilent Technologies Electronics 2,700 Mar 26

Bombardier Inc Train/aircraft 3,000 April 2

Dover Corp Manufacturing 4,800 April 22

Timken Co Manufacturing 7,000 April 27

General Motors Corp Auto 90,000 Jan/Feb/April

REGION - ASIA-PACIFIC: -------------------------------------------------------------

COMPANY SECTOR NUMBERS DATE

TDK Corp Electronics 8,000 Jan 08

Lenovo Group IT 2,500 Jan 08

BHP Billiton Ltd/Plc Mining 6,000 Jan 21

Panasonic Corp Electronics 15,000 Feb 04

Nissan Motor Co Auto 20,000 Feb 09

Pioneer Corp Electronics 10,000 Feb 12

Fujifilm Holdings Corp Electronics 5,000 April 30

REGION - AFRICA: ---------------------------------------------------------------

COMPANY SECTOR NUMBERS DATE

Anglo Platinum Mining 10,000 Feb 09

Lonmin Plc Mining 5,500 Feb 24 --------------------------------------------------------------

TOTAL 522,306 ---------------------------------------------------------------