DEN BOSCH Ricoh Netherlands is going to cut down the workforce to be out of the red figures. The company aims to 220 fte deleted, translated about 250 jobs. Ricoh made this sat night is known at the Dutch headquarters in Den Bosch.
In total, Ricoh in the Netherlands 1100 employees, of which there are alternating between the 400 and 700 at the headquarters in Den Bosch working. About 300 of these were Thursday morning to be present at the announcement of the reorganization. This also has no effect on the place where the company is based: according to the director Maurits Aalders continues to Ricoh just in Den Bosch.
Cost reduction
According to Ricoh they are almost all concerned functions that shall be deleted will be administrative in nature. “The proposed changes are selected so that the customers of Ricoh as little as possible, notice of the adjustment, the company said in a press release. The reorganization is intended to reduce costs, ” so the company is loss-making situation quickly to can bend and within 24 months profitable again.”
Ricoh is a Japanese company and was active in the field of IT services, printers and copiers. The Dutch headquarters is in the Bosch Paleiskwartier located. In 2012, Ricoh is already faced with a large ontslaggolf. When were 110 voltijdsbanen deleted, now about the double.
Red
According to Aalders saw the company last year and the income already drop and came to Ricoh this year, even in the red figures. Not only in the Netherlands, incidentally, because in september of this year, reported the international parent company is already a drop in profits of sixty per cent.
CNV spokesman Arjan soon we was in the past months already not happy with the developments at Ricoh. ,,We received signals from the concerned service engineers, who work quite a saw’s performance. It buzzed the last time the rumors about the possible consequences. But we are shocked by the size of the reorganization. This comes hard on the people. It means redundancies for almost one in four employees."
at the End of January, beginning of February brings the works council its opinion on the proposed reorganization. There is still a social plan until april 2017, Ricoh has, according to the CNV promised that all employees who are now redundant under this plan shall fall.
Top man
In October it was announced that ceo Mark Boelhouwer stops. He was in 2011 a member of the board of directors and was, in 2013, the successor of Carol Dona as chairman of the board of directors. Per 1 november, Raphaël Zaccardi the function of Boelhouwer. He was previously ceo of Ricoh in Switzerland.
Zaccardi about the announced reorganisation: ,,The measures are intended to in a very fast changing market, Ricoh is successful again. We need to strengthen the competitiveness by the organization in all areas to make more efficient to operate. At the same time, we serve our expense, and every part of our business, to streamline it.”
19.6 billion
the headquarters of the Ricoh Group is based in Tokyo, the company is active in more than 200 countries and regions. In the financial year that ended on march 31, 2016 achieved Ricoh’s worldwide sales revenue of 2.209 billion yen (about 19.6 billion u.s. dollars). About the latest results of the Dutch branch of the company, no statements.
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