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Re: Target GP Margins
There are a lot more of those than there used to be. That's why our industry has to change the way they add prospects to the pipeline. They are going to have to actually start marketing for a change (spend dollars on marketing instead of salespeople) & do things to position themselves as a resource companies will contact when they need something versus salespeople throwing a million lines in the water hoping they get a bite. It's got to be all about generating in-bound leads and...
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Re: When did you first learn about the industry
Honestly, it was when I walked in the door for my first interview. I remember the individual interviewing me mentioning that they sold Ricoh equipment, & the only frame of reference I had is that Ricoh sponsored the "Call to the Bullpen" on MLB games at the time. Before I got into the industry, I could not make a straight copy on the first try if you paid me, because I never thought to use the document feeder & could never get the original lined up on the glass. I knew about all of...
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Re: CBS NEWS REPORT ON COPIER SECURITY
I have seen statements on return forms from lease companies that state that the leasee is responsible for securing data that may be on the HDD. Regarding the show, CBS producers get paid to make reports for "good TV". I heard about this HDD concern a few weeks ago in an early morning "tip" from Clark Howard on CNN a few weeks ago. I Googled it at the time and found a print article. I think that the concern is valid but I think that it probably the hard way to find personal information. As...
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Re: A Day That Will Never Be Forgotten
I was on my way to an account to do some end user training when the 1st plane hit. Heard it on IMUS in the morning. At that time everyone throught it was a small commuter plane accident. While at the customer's office, the second plane hit. We stopped training and my customer and I watched it all unfold on a TV in his conference room. I remmember thinking if this is what people felt like after Pearl Harbor. It was a mix of anger and just hazziness.
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Re: A Day That Will Never Be Forgotten
Out here in Wisconsin, I was getting ready for work and listening to the radio, as I usually did then. The deejay interrupted the song that was playing, and I will always remember the stunned tone in his voice and his unusual words. He said, "If you are not watching TV, you need to turn it on NOW." What kind of weird thing is that for a radio deejay to say?! So, I did what he said and that's how I found out about the planes hitting the towers. In the time it took me to drive to work, the...
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Re: A Day That Will Never Be Forgotten
I had gone surfing 60 miles south of NYC before work that morning. It was one of the clearest mornings of that fall with perfect waves. Just a perfect after cold front morning. Not a cloud in the sky. I was a technician at the time and on my way to the first call of the day I heard on the radio of the first plane. I got to my first call and the office TV was directly over the copier. I was watching live when the second plane hit. I was at my second call of the day watching on their TV when...
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Re: Japan's Sharp Corp plans to sell its copiers and air conditioners businesses
Somewhere near last.... However, I just picked up this press release from Rueters also: Sharp seeking over $1.2 bln for plant and other assets -Yomiuri * Sharp also in talks to sell some Tokyo offices -Yomiuri * Sharp will struggle to find buyer for solar business-source By Reiji Murai and Tim Kelly TOKYO, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Cash-strapped Sharp Corp is in talks to sell its key solar panel plant in Japan as part of an asset sale seeking more than $1.2 billion, local media said on Thursday,...
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Re: Ricoh Dealership in Minnesota will buy.......
Independent Dealers will never compete successfully with any Direct _BS branch on price. The _BS Branch has shown that they are willing to run their branches at a loss for years! We must sell at a profit, IMHO they should (Legally) have to also sell at a profit (Don't get me started on dumping). If you work for an independent dealer and you are trying to compete with a _BS Branch (that sells your product) on price then you are playing into their hands, and you are going broke. They can...
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Re: Samsung Says Offer for Sharp’s Photocopier Unit Rejected
Thought I saw a blurb on TV this morning about how Qualcomm is backing out from the Sharp deal a few months ago because Sharp can't deliver for some reason. Did anyone else see that? (I think on Bloomberg News)
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Re: How True!
Born in '64, dittos on the stroll. Rode my bike everywhere until I could drive. Even rode it into parked car once and dented the fender. I owned up (because that's what we were supposed to do) and went to the door and told the man. My dad paid for the repair, and I had to work it off with dad. I was more afraid of what my parents would do to me than the police. Only had to worry about grades if I made lower than "B", 'cause that was failing in my parent's eyes. No need for a cell phone or...
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Re: How True!
Born in 1964 too... If anyone should have died it should have been me! I'm sure that building a jump for our bikes on the bottom of a hill would kill kids today...Running through the woods at 10 with my friends, the only surfing I did was on a skateboard, Interwhat? Computer? Nobody could afford a computer, besides, you need another house to put it in. Don't get me started on TV...The only cartoons we ever watched were on Saturday Morning, no Nick, Cartoon Network, etc...No need for a V-Chip...
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Re: Salespeople Get No Respect?
I agree with both Neal and Mike, if the administrator feels they're an integral part of the team they wouldn't have contemplated a "Friday end of month" vacation day. Here's where the rewards/prizes from sales contests and extra spiffs come into play. I once gave our order administrator a TV/VCR combo unit I had won. You can order in Friday lunches, bring in bagels and donuts - everyone wants to be appreciated for the job they do especially the lower paid ones. Don't make it a habit BUT...
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Re: Gas Price Check
A TV ad from a local GM car dealer was offering 50 shares of GM stock if they purchase a new vehicle before the end of the year. A Chrysler dealer in Chicago was offering a Buy One - Get The Second for $1.
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Re: Political Speeches
I received this email from whoever about an article from Jay Leno. We all agree that we have the right to disagree with someone else. Read on........ Jay Leno wrote this; it's the Jay Leno we don't often see.... > > " As most of you know I am not a President Bush fan, nor have I ever been, but > this is not about Bush, it is about us, as Americans, and it seems to hit the > mark 'The other day I was reading Newsweek magazine and came across some Poll > data I found rather hard...
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Re: Panasonic Dumps Dealers, Keeps all but a handful!!!!
FWIW, we haven't been a pandealer for many years now, and can still order parts, anything we want.. . . from MSC. What is MSC? I just got off the phone with Scott, my (former) sales rep. Apparently Panasonic cut 15,000 jobs nationwide (last day is end of February), and dumped all but the top handful of dealers. Those employees who lost their jobs can re-apply, but the "new" positions will be far fewer. Here's what I know so far: -If you have an existing Parts account, you'll keep it. Whew.
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Re: Pitney Bowes model 253.pdf
Please us your scanned old brochures, special thanx to Bill for these!!!
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Re: Around the World w/Ricoh #3
Ricoh Paper & Office Supplies Lucky Draw Program Ricoh paper and office supplies lucky draw program was successfully completed. We had 5,268 customers to be entitled one or more than one entry to the lucky draw of the following: 1st prize - one unit of Philips 170MT 17" LCD TV 2nd prize - one East Ocean Seafood Restaurant cash coupon HK$3,000 3rd prize - one unit of Ricoh Caplio G4 wide digital camera 4th to 10th prize - Jusco cash coupon HK$500 The lucky draw result of the competition...
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Re: We're Sorry.......To all my Canadian P4P'ers!
I have been glued to the TV watching Canada win Gold in the Women's Olympic Hockey final beating USA in a thriller. in the men's hockey, Canada beat the USA 1-0 and advances to the gold metal round. I am waiting for Barrack Obama to pay up on his losing bet to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and deliver two cases of beer! Productivity was not that great today in Canada as everybody who could was watching TV.
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Re: Toshiba in Talks to Sell PC Unit to Taiwan's Asus
yesterday it was this headline: Toshiba on Wednesday announced plans to sell 95% stake in its TV business unit to Hisense Electric for approximately $114 million. Today it's the PC business, tomorrow?
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Re: Gifts, Trips, Prizes, for Copiers "Lawful or Could Land You in Jail?"
I think its a grey area. I've seen plenty of times where I've offered a TV or IPAD to someone and the owner tells the person who I worked with to keep it. Sometimes I have seen where the "company" keeps it....aka the owner takes it home with him.
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Re: Gifts, Trips, Prizes, for Copiers "Lawful or Could Land You in Jail?"
Yes you are correct. The blinders go on when something is “given” to them. I’d be lying if i said I didn’t do it but the customer and everyone involved knows it’s there and listed on the proposal the whole time. I use it strategically with accounts I want and switch back and forth with things to keep competitors on their toes. Sometimes it’s a tv, sometimes it’s An iPad, sometimes it’s football tickets l, gift cards etc. it’s never the same for a particular machine or vertical market.
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Re: MP C3003 Color Quality
Whenever I have someone suggest they want to replicate the monitor I do this: Type "the color blue" in a search engine address Pick out one of the medium blue patches Ask them to stand up while looking at that patch. The blue will become a darker shade. I ask them which of the shades they wish the copier to reproduce. If an image on a monitor can change just by changing the angle you look at it, how can the copier know what color you prefer? Sometimes I'll also talk about how monitors these...
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Ricoh Wins Gold in Best in Biz Awards 2018
MALVERN, Pa. , Dec. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Ricoh USA , Inc. has been named a gold winner in the Most Innovative Company category of the Best in Biz Awards, the only independent business awards program judged each year by prominent editors and reporters from top-tier publications in North America . In the past year, Ricoh launched its RICOH Ignite global growth strategy which outlines the company's plans to push traditional technology boundaries to empower digital workplaces to facilitate...
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A Selling From The Heart Professional Is Not A Sales Settler!
I applaud DirecTV with their bold and 'direct' ads on TV. They continue to make an impact within the cable TV wars; but they've also made a substantial impact within the sales world (more in a bit). In a sales campaign from a few years ago, they play on one single phrase which showcased a frontier-era family in a suburban neighborhood stuck in antiquated ways such as a horse-and-buggy and, by the way, cable. “We’re settler's son, we settle for things,” explained the father in “Neighbors”...
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FULL FRAME SIGNS' ACUITY SELECT 28 FROM FUJIFILM OFFERS HIGH QUALITY OUTPUT FOR THE FILM AND TV INDUSTRY
FULL FRAME SIGNS' ACUITY SELECT 28 FROM FUJIFILM OFFERS HIGH QUALITY OUTPUT FOR THE FILM AND TV INDUSTRY Hanover Park, Ill., October 31, 2018 – Full Frame Signs, a Toronto-area based and family-owned print services provider, expands their print capabilities with Fujifilm’s Acuity Select 28, a versatile and economic UV inkjet press for a wide range of creative print applications. “We are part of the film and television industry out of Toronto, and our finished product will appear on camera,”...
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HEALTHCARE VERTICAL NEWS
HEALTHCARE VERTICAL NEWS Canon relaunches solution for healthcare - announced its Nuance eCopy ShareScan Services for healthcare - advertised as document capture onramp that integrates with iManage and Epic software - allow Canon imageRUNNER MFPs to scan into these healthcare solutions - provide compliance for HIPAA and GDPR regulations - use OCR to convert images to HL7 protocol - (this solution competes with the Konica Minolta/Nuance AutoStore MD solution, which does even more as it can be...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago, The Last Week in August 2013
I thought it would be time for something new. Each week we post threads from the last 10 year and 15 years on the Print4Pay Hotel. So we're going to give you another one. This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago. Enjoy these most excellent threads from just 5 years ago! Who Makes the Best Multifunctional Copy Machine? Art Post · 8/28/1310:23 PM manufacturers for multifunctional copiers. Here they are in the tiers. Tier I: Canon (includes Oce), Ricoh (includes Savin and Lanier), Xerox and...
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This Week in the Copier in Industry, The Last Week of November 2003
Looking back there was one incredible thread from 15 years ago and that had to do with a new member that refused give information that we required in order to approve them for membership. Those days were the early days from when we transitioned from an MSN community to a real web site. Back then all we had was the forums. Graham & Ted were also key players in getting the forums launched back then. Enjoy the threads from 15 years ago this week and make sure you check out that thread!
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Ricoh Clickable-Paper-enabled book adoptions on the rise in print-education environments
In August of 2018, The School of Graphic Communications Management (GCM) at Toronto’s Ryerson University included, as required reading, an updated edition of Introduction to Graphic Communication in its Fall curriculum for first-year GCM students. Ryerson contract lecturer and Graphic Arts Magazine columnist Diana Varma cited several reasons for the selection. “The book pairs really well with our first-year curriculum for our Graphic Communications Management students. It has a lot of...
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icoh wins gold in 9th annual Best in Biz Awards
Ricoh's commitment to continually improve service and focus on customer satisfaction earns Most Customer Friendly Company honor EXTON, Pa. , Feb. 3, 2020 / PRNewswire / -- Ricoh USA , Inc. has been named a gold winner in the Most Customer Friendly Company category in the Best in Biz Awards, the only independent business awards program judged by prominent editors and reporters from top-tier publications in North America . Ricoh earned this honor thanks to a number of initiatives within the...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago for the Second Week in April of 2015
For those of you that are new to the industry, there's a cool blog I wrote about making the phone calls. Believe it or not the phone is your friend. You can read that here or below. Fourty Eight Hundred Phone Calls a Year Can Equal a Lot of Dough! Enjoy these awesome threads from 5 years ago this week! Bid Tabulation for Xerox_Sharp_Samsung_Canon_Kyocera.pdf Art Post · 4/14/1512:55 PM Topic Konica Minolta Expands and Enhances Corporate Communications Team at US Headquarters Art Post ·...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago for the Last Week in April of 2010
Interesting about what a difference 10 years can make in an industry. Just this week Canon profits will drop 80%. Ten years ago they had posted a profit that had tripled. Ten years ago clients and sales people alike were all concerned about latent images left on copier hard drives. Enjoy these threads from ten years ago this week! Weekend Industry Notes for 4/25/10 Neal · 4/26/107:24 AM which has resulted in the opening of offices in 15 metropolitan areas in the last year - Rosetta...
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OneNeck IT Solutions Named To CRN MSP Elite 150 List
The list recognizes solution providers for excellence in managed IT services MADISON, Wis. (PRWEB)March 13, 2020 - OneNeck® IT Solutions was named to the 2020 Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list in the Elite 150 category. The annual list, published by CRN® (a brand of The Channel Company) recognizes North American solution providers that deliver operational efficiencies, IT system improvements and a higher rate of return on investments for their customers. These accomplished MSPs work...
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Cybersecurity Update
- TV celebrity Scott Disick, father of 3 children with Kourtney Kardashian, has filed a lawsuit against All Points Lodge Rehab in Edwards, Colorado for a HIPAA breach. o He reportedly had recently checked himself into the facility for substance abuse, and apparently an employee at the facility may have sold this story to tabloid publications. - Ann and Robert Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, IL notified 4,824 patients that their PHI was illegally accessed by a former employee. - Vanessa...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Forty-Three of Sales
This is the first night since I started writing this blog series that I wasn't sure what I was going to write about. After 43 days of writing how much more can you cover or how much more content can you provide for other peeps with help they might need. Tonight I'd like to cover a few things I've been doing everyday other than taking the occasional break and lunch. Many weeks ago I learned that I can't work with the TV on in my office. It's too distracting especially when I have the news on...
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Re: Oce cutting my throat in every deal!!!
Emie, We compete against Oce & CBS all the time. We tell customers early on that we will not be the "cheapest" vendor that they look at. In fact if they are looking for the cheapest price they shouldn't be looking at us, because we provide the best value, not the cheapest price. When you break down the cost over a 48 or 60 month period how much more did you cost them for your better support? Even if they are buying the equipment they will keep it for 4 or 5 years, so this is a valid...
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Re: Foxconn Buys 10% of Sharp Corp
Has anyone seen the documentary special on TV covering the history of FoxConn....it was amazing to watch all the people acting like robots and elbow to elbow. Then they actually put up nets around the building because workers were jumping off the roof and committing suicide because of the harsh working conditions. It just like it is in the copier business. :-) You can also find many videos online....watch them....it almost does not entice someone to buy an ipad.
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Re: Foxconn Buys 10% of Sharp Corp
Art you forgot the office TV as well. But they forgot the coffee maker.
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Re: Sharp has Serious Money Problems!
Toshiba Tec just spent $870M USD to buy IBM's Point of Sale division so I can only suspect they are financially and mentally "tapped out" to take on another big acquisition. Toshiba Tec does relabel a Sharp low end copier known as an e203SD so there is some business relationship there. I believe in the last 12 months Toshiba discontinued manufacturing LCD TV panels and began to source them from Sharp.
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Re: Sharp has Serious Money Problems!
news updated for Sharp, http://in.reuters.com/article/...dINL4E8JK2J520120820 * Sharp hires two consultants, including PwC, for report - sources * Sharp's debt totals $16 billion * Sharp shares fall 5.4 percent to 174 yen in Tokyo By Taiga Uranaka and Nobuhiro Kubo TOKYO, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Japan's embattled TV maker Sharp Corp will submit an asset appraisal report to its banks next month they will use to identify businesses the century-old company has to sell in return for funding, sources...
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Re: Sharp has Serious Money Problems!
(Reuters) - Sharp Corp's main creditors Mizuho Corporate Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group are considering extending about 200 billion yen ($2.52 billion) in new loans to the struggling TV maker, Japanese media reported, sending its shares higher on Thursday. The embattled company, with debt of 1.25 trillion yen ($16 billion), is considering selling assets and cutting jobs as it scrambles for money to refinance as much as 360 billion yen of short-term commercial paper and a 200...
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Re: Sharp has Serious Money Problems!
By James Topham and Tim Kelly TOKYO | Mon Aug 27, 2012 3:14pm IST TOKYO (Reuters) - Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry (2317.TW) Chairman Terry Gou said an agreement to buy a 9.9 percent stake in Sharp (6753.T) was unchanged "in principle," and that he hoped to conclude the deal with the struggling Japanese TV maker this week. The two firms reached a deal in March valuing the shares of the cash-starved maker of Aquos TV at 550 yen each, but reopened talks this month after Sharp's stock...
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Re: Sharp has Serious Money Problems!
The share price of Sharp Corp. rose 9.13 percent to close at the day's high of 215 Japanese yen on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Tuesday. The rally was seen as a positive response to Taipei-based Hon Hai Group Chairman and founder Terry Gou's announcement in Tokyo a day earlier that he is committed to finalizing an agreement to take a capital stake in the struggling Japanese electronics firm. Speaking at a news conference for a Taiwanese trade delegation visiting Japan, Gou said the details of...
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Re: Sharp has Serious Money Problems!
In this latest go round seems thing are somewhat rosier for Sharp. "Their common goals will include selling 1 million Sharp-brand mobile phones annually in China, consolidating Sharp's share of China's big-screen LCD TV market and tapping into North America's lower-end LCD TV market, the sources said. Moreover, the sources added, Apple Inc., Hon Hai and Sharp will collaborate to fight against South Korean dominance in the global smartphone and LCD markets". No mention of copier in future plans?
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Re: Sharp has Serious Money Problems!
Sharp Corp. (6753), the Japanese panel maker selling a stake to Foxconn Technology Group, fell in Tokyo trading after its credit ratings were cut and a report said the company offered to lower the price of the shares. Sharp dropped as much as 8.1 percent to 182 yen and traded at 188 yen as of 1 p.m., extending the Osaka-based company’s decline this year to 72 percent. Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. (2317), Foxconn’s flagship company, rose to the highest level in four months in Taipei after...
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Re: USA Presidential Poll
Obama is a very rich black guy, so what's the point? Just because you have younger children does that make your thought or decision process different when governing? Romney is a businessman, and he is proven, thus the reason for his wealth! With 1.6 trillion owed to China, and 1.1 trillion owed to Japan and a 16 trillion dollar debt, waste in government needs to be cut. The Tea Party does not control the republican party, it is an extreme element of the Reuplican Party, although they have...
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Re: Sharp has Serious Money Problems!
The 100-year-old inventor of mechanical pencils needs to pen a new plan to make it to 101. Sharp Corp. (6753), Japan’s biggest liquid-crystal display maker, put up its Osaka headquarters and some plants as collateral last week to win bank loans after its credit ratings were cut to junk. The supplier to Apple Inc. (AAPL) is also renegotiating a stock sale to Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology Group as it tries to recover from record losses and a 70 percent slump in shares this year. Within six...
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Re: Sharp has Serious Money Problems!
(Reuters) - Japan's Sharp Corp said it will trim salaries of its managers by a tenth for a year and seek an across-the-board wage cut for other workers as the cash-strapped TV maker looks for fresh ways to save money. In addition to a 10 percent pay cut, Sharp said in a statement on Tuesday it will also halve bonuses paid to managers, while seeking union agreement to lower the salaries of rank and file workers by 7 percent for a year, deeper than a 2 percent cut agreed in May. The latest...