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Rossi Announces More Job Losses

The French ski and snowboard company Rossignol which was bought by Quiksilver last March has announced 104 job cuts in the Rossignol, Dynastar and Look factories. The majority of cuts will be through natural wastage.

Quiksilver wants to centralize certain functions across the three parts of the group and across different countries and hopes this will improve communication and productivity within the Rossignol group as well as permitting great mobility for employees.

The cuts follow 134 job losses already announced last March including 78 jobs at the Rossignol factory at Saint-Etienne-de-Crossey in the French Isère department and 56 at the Dynastar factory at Sallanches in the Haute-Savoie. The company also announced the outsourcing of the annual production of 137,000 pairs of mid-range skis to a factory in Spain. Rossignol had a worldwide production of 1.25 million pairs of skis in 2004.

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