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...Thanks and Get Lost H Jörgen Centerman was forced to resign as ceo of troubled Swiss-Swedish engineering firm ABB just one day after it sold its finance division to General Electric for 12.3 billion. He will be replaced by Jürgen Dormann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Single Currency | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

...entry center in Pyongyang since 1997. Some South Korean companies have launched joint ventures in areas like animation and computer software. And Chinese traders do a booming business back and forth across the China-North Korea border. Robert Suter, who heads the Seoul office of Swiss power generation company ABB Ltd., says his firm is staking out a position in North Korea, "It is the same as it was in China years ago. You had to be there and you had to build trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Light from the North? | 8/11/2002 | See Source »

There has been a steady drumbeat of bad news on the job front in Europe. Just last month, the Swiss engineering firm ABB announced 12,000 layoffs, 8% of the company's workforce. Infineon, Europe's second-largest chipmaker, said it is downsizing 5,000 workers because of a slowdown in the electronics sector. Ericsson, Sweden's big telecom equipment provider, said it would stop making mobile phones - a decision that will put 2,600 out of work in southern Sweden. In fact, in just a single week in late July, European companies announced a total of 30,000 layoffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood, Sweat, Toil and Tears | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...presented an unbalanced and inaccurate picture of ABB Instrumentation Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., in the portion of your report titled "When Factories Become Fixer-Uppers." In fact, the local area has benefited financially as a result of the support we were given by Monroe County, N.Y. It is true that the County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency issued $21 million in bonds to support the building of a new plant. However, the company repaid this in full upon the passing of title. It is also true that the company accepted $2 million in tax abatements. These have since ceased. Instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 30, 1998 | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...With ABB and GE, the threat of losing jobs often became too much for a community to bear. The workers, their families and local politicians wanted to keep the jobs at all costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: States At War | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

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