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Dutch telecommunications company Royal KPN NV will cut some 8,000 jobs between 2005 and 2009, the company said on 1 March 2005. The company will cut between 1,500 and 1,750 jobs per year. The job cuts are expected to lead to annual cost cut of €850 million ($1.1 billion) from 2010. KPN estimated the annual costs cut for the period 2005-2007 at €150 million ($198 million) and for the period 2008-2009 at €200 million ($264 million).
Sources
1 March 2005: NRC Handelsblad
1 March 2005: De Telegraaf
Citation
Eurofound (2005), KPN, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 61330, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/61330.