hazmatgerman (X) Dec 5, 2008:

Es könnte, da vom Markt gesprochen wird, auch das Zurückziehen von Produkten aus umkämpften Marktsegmenten mit korrespondierendem Umsatzverlust gemeint sein.

margarete (asker) Dec 5, 2008:

Sorry, Business Unit 2 deals with printers

margarete (asker) Dec 5, 2008:

Actually I can add that Business Unit one deals with Printers and (my guess) service for those printers. So I am wondering if the competition is taking over and replacing those printers...????? Might be completely off track here...

margarete (asker) Dec 5, 2008:

I wish I knew more. Uwe might be on the right track. The entire PPT is justifying cuts to the workers council. But this is still the section where it is pointed out just how bad things are with the different business units.

Here is the entire slide:

2 structural challenges
Business unit one
Growth easing out
Volatile raw material costs
Need to stream line and transform Business Unit 1 model.

Business unit 2
XXX is not growing according to plan (competitive removal, replacements, etc…)
Service margin worsened to negative 30% versus – 15% in 07
Need to adjust Service and Support resources

As you can see, lots of guess work. Any ideas

ukaiser (X) Dec 5, 2008:

Geht es um Kostensenkungen im Personalbereich? Kündigungen mit niedrigen Abfindungen, Ersetzung von gut bezahlten durch schlecht bezahlte Mitarbeiter, sodass hier evtl. Euphemismen verwendet wurden?

Julia Wolter Dec 5, 2008:

It's not clear what is meant. Could you give me more context?