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Home Credit, a non-banking consumer credit provider, has announced 10 % staff cuts (i.e. about 100 job losses) to be implemented in the Czech Republic by the end of November 2008 due to the global financial crisis.
Home Credit is owned by the PPF international group and it also operates in Byelorussia, China, Kazakhstan, Slovakia, Russia, Ukraine, and Vietnam. It was reported that the firm has already cut about 1,000 jobs out of 19,000 staff worldwide. The largest job cut is expected to occur in Russia (2,000 job losses).
Eurofound (2008), Home Credit, Internal restructuring in Czechia, factsheet number 67416, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/67416.