Siemens CEO defends turbine business restructuring: Spiegel – Reuters

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Siemens chief executive has defended the German industrial group against government accusations that its planned job cuts could encourage right-wing populism in economically weak areas of the former East Germany. Siemens President and CEO Joe Kaeser attends a news conference with Alstom CEO to announce their deal to merge their rail operations,…

Decentralisation results in Vistaprint restructure – printweek.com

Cimpress has announced a major restructure at its flagship Vistaprint operation alongside its Q1 results. Cimpress: “solid start” to fiscal year 2018 The group decentralised its operations at the beginning of the year, which resulted in 3,000 employees being reassigned to the Vistaprint business. Restructuring at the business unit will involve an as-yet-unspecified number…

Siemens CEO defends turbine business restructuring -Spiegel – Times of India

FRANKFURT, Nov 3 (Reuters) – Siemens’ chief executive has defended the German industrial group against government accusations that its planned job cuts could encourage right-wing populism in economically weak areas of the former East Germany. Siemens may cut thousands of jobs in an overhaul of its power and gas business, which is struggling with low…

RPT-UPDATE 3-Venezuela to restructure foreign debt, default looms as possibility – Markets Insider

(Repeats to widen distribution with no changes to text) By Brian Ellsworth and Eyanir Chinea CARACAS, Nov 2 (Reuters) – Venezuela on Thursday announced plans to restructure its burgeoning foreign debt, a move that may lead to a default by the cash-strapped OPEC nation whose collapsing socialist economy has left its population struggling to find…

Developer community Stack Overflow lays off reportedly 20% of staff as it refocusses business – TechCrunch

Some changes are underway at Stack Overflow, the online community where some 50 million developers and others converge to talk programming and many other things. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that the startup has conducted a substantial number of layoffs across the company as it looks to steer the business more towards its core Q&A…

Dow Chemical To Record $900 Mln Pretax Restructuring Charges In Q4 – Markets Insider

(RTTNews) – Dow Chemical Co., a subsidiary of DowDuPont Inc.(DWDP), on Thursday said it has approved restructuring actions in connection with the DowDuPont Cost Synergy Program. The company expects to record total pretax restructuring charges of about $1.3 billion, based on all actions approved to date under the Synergy Program. Of the total charges, approximately…