Motorola to cut 1,000 more positions
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Motorola Inc., the world&#39;s second-largest maker of mobile phones, will cut 1,000 jobs as the company prepares to spin off its computer-chip business, costing $50 million in severance payments.
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Motorola spokeswoman Jennifer Weyrauch said the cuts would be made worldwide &quot;to better align our work force&quot; and in anticipation of the separation of its chip operations, now operating independently as Freescale Semiconductor Inc.
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Motorola Inc. will cut 1,000 jobs worldwide and take a charge of 50 million dollar for severance benefits as it completes the spinoff of its semiconductor division, officials said today.
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With a view to focusing on its wireless business, Motorola Inc. said it plans to slash 1,000 jobs, or 1 percent of its staff, and absorb charges of about $50 million.
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Motorola Inc. MOT.N, the world's No.  2 maker of cell phones, on Tuesday said it would cut 1,000 jobs  in three of its units as it puts its effort behind wireless  communications in an increasingly competitive market.
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Motorola, the world's second largest mobile phone maker, is cutting 1% of its workforce but its core mobile phone operations will be unaffected.
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Motorola Inc. will cut 1,000 jobs worldwide and take a charge of $50 million for severance benefits, officials said Tuesday. Motorola is completing a spinoff of its chip operations, now operating independently
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Motorola Inc.  plans to trim an additional 4,000 jobs this year, bringing the total cuts for 2007 to more than 11 percent of its work force, as the world's No. 2 mobile phone maker reduces costs to return to profitability.
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Motorola Inc.  said it expects to cut an  additional 4,000 jobs as it continues to lower costs.
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Motorola may spin off its handset business, the weakest part of a wireless giant that has seen hard times and a management shakeup in recent months.The company is &quot;exploring the structural and strategic realignment of its businesses to better equip its Mobile Devices Business to recapture global market leadership and to enhance shareholder value,&quot; Motorola said in a statement Thursday. &quot;The company&#39;s alternatives may include the separation of Mobile Devices from its other businesses.&quot;The handset unit has had trouble coming up with a successor to the popular Razr phone, and in last year&#39;s third quarter it fell to third place in worldwide sales behind Samsung. But spinning off the division, which forms the largest part of Motorola&#39;s business, would be a drastic move.Motorola had 13 percent of the worldwide handset market in last year&#39;s third quarter, down from a 21 percent share a year earlier, according to Gartner. Samsung had 15 percent and Nokia 38 percent.Thursday&#39;s announcement doesn&#39;t guarantee the handset business will be spun off. CEO Greg Brown said in the statement that Motorola was exploring ways in which the unit can recover faster and retain and attract talent, plus help shareholders &quot;realize the value of this great franchise.&quot;In its fourth-quarter results announced last week, Motorola said the Mobile Devices Business lost $388 million on revenue of $4.8 billion, down from a profit of $341 million on revenue of $7.8 billion a year earlier. Fourth-quarter sales were up in both the Home and Networks Mobility group, which makes set-top boxes and wireless infrastructure, and in Enterprise Mobility, which benefitted from&#160;Motorola&#39;s acquisition of Symbol Technologies&#160;early last year.Motorola as a whole lost $49 million for the year.&#160;CEO Ed Zander stepped down in late November, replaced by Brown.
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Motorola Inc  is aiming to cut  its quarterly research and development expenses for mobile  devices by about 15 percent by the end of 2007 to try to return  to profitability.
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Are there more changes ahead for Motorola?
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Sprint Nextel , the No. 3 U.S.  mobile service, said on Friday it would cut about 4,000 jobs  within the company, close 125 stores and reduce its use of  outsourced services to improve its financial performance.
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AT&amp;T Corp. said it will cut one-fifth of its work force this year -- or 7,400 more jobs -- and write down $11.4 billion of assets as the phone company retreats from the residential business it once dominated.
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Motorola posted a loss from continuing operations of $38 million, or 2 cents a share, compared with a profit of $1.35 billion, or 54 cents per share, a year earlier.
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(InfoWorld) - Amid increasing competition in a fickle cell phone market, Motorola expects to report a loss for its mobile devices business in 2007 and now estimates that second quarter sales will be lower than expected. The number two handset maker said on Wednesday that second quarter sales for the company would be $8.6 billion to $8.7 billion, instead of $9.4 billion as previously expected. That drop in expected sales is the result of lower handset sales, particularly in Asia and Europe, Motorola said. In the second quarter, Motorola expects to report sales of 35 million to 36 million handsets. That will lead to a larger operating loss for the mobile device business in the second quarter compared to the first quarter, it said. During the first quarter, Motorola sold 45.5 million phones. At the time, the company said it foresaw a gradual recovery of its mobile phone business throughout the rest of the year with expectations of a profitable year. Motorola now expects a second quarter generally accepted accounting principles loss per share in the range of $0.02 to $0.04. The company will announce its earnings for the second quarter 2007 on July 19 and will offer further details then, it said. Motorola also announced that it named a new president for the mobile division: Stu Reed, formerly executive vice president of integrated supply chain for Motorola. Reed's predecessor, Ron Garriques, left the company in February to head up Dell's global consumer division. Prior to its first quarter earnings report, Motorola also had to warn that sales would be lower than expected. It made some executive changes then, including the appointment of a new president. Earlier in the year, Motorola had implemented a new plan to help it improve profitability, but that plan wasn't working out, the company said during the first quarter earnings warning. Most of the large handset makers are struggling to keep profits up as sales in established markets like Europe stagnate as most people there already have phones. The companies are increasingly branching out into emerging markets, such as India and China, but they must sell their phones at lower prices to win customers there. That's squeezing profit margins."The only real growth is at the low end, which means there's nice unit growth, but the dollar growth is not there," said Will Strauss, an analyst with Forward Concepts. "This year is a soft year for the cell phone market, in spite of Apple," he said. Apple's hugely hyped iPhone is expected to sell around 10 million units through next year, which may sound like a lot. But this number is dwarfed by the approximately 150 million units that companies like Nokia sell in a year, Strauss said. The iPhone isn't affecting the sales of the biggest cell phone companies, but it may help companies like Motorola realize what they need to do to improve their prospects, he said. The only way that the mobile phone companies can grow profits in saturated markets is to "convince everybody that they need a new cell phone with new bells and whistles," Strauss said. "The iPhone is raising awareness of what the future cell phones are going to look like." In addition, Motorola is notorious for producing hit phones, like the Razr, that sell well but then failing to follow up with additional models that continue the momentum. "They rode too long on the Razr," Strauss said. But the handset maker could get a boost later in the year when it starts selling the Razr 2, which Avi Greengart, an analyst at Current Analysis, said is a big improvement on the first version. Motorola is likely to learn from its mistakes the first time around too. "In the past, they really let the original Razr run away with volume as opposed to maintaining it as a premium fashion phone," he said. "I think this time they're going to resist the rapid price drop." This story was updated on July 11, 2007. Â
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Motorola Inc  said on Wednesday it will post an operating loss in the current quarter as its cell phone business is taking longer than expected to turn around, dashing Wall Street hopes for a profit and sending its shares down 20 percent.