A huge loss of tens of billions! Nikon announces 2,000 layoffs overseas, accounting for one-fifth of the total number of overseas employees

2020/11/0721:56:36 technology 2769

Recently, according to Japanese media reports, Japanese camera company Nikon announced that it plans to lay off more than 2,000 employees outside of Japan by March 2022, which already accounts for 20% of its total overseas employees.

A huge loss of tens of billions! Nikon announces 2,000 layoffs overseas, accounting for one-fifth of the total number of overseas employees - DayDayNews

However, this is Nikon's helpless move in the big environment. As the new crown epidemic continues to spread, this has also seriously affected the digital camera market. Japanese research company Techno Systems Research said that global digital camera shipments in 2020 will only be about 8 million units, a decrease of nearly half compared with last year.

A huge loss of tens of billions! Nikon announces 2,000 layoffs overseas, accounting for one-fifth of the total number of overseas employees - DayDayNews

Nikon's main focus is on the camera business, and the epidemic has greatly restricted its development. Nikon's commercial equipment sales are not ideal, so the group is in a loss. It is understood that Nikon's previous April-September 2020 consolidated loss was as high as 31.5 billion yen, but Nikon made a profit of 16.3 billion yen in the same period in 2019.

A huge loss of tens of billions! Nikon announces 2,000 layoffs overseas, accounting for one-fifth of the total number of overseas employees - DayDayNews

The global camera business has been hit. Nikon will transfer the SLR camera production line at the Miyagi plant in Japan to Thailand, and the scale of overseas production lines will be adjusted accordingly. At the same time, the structure of overseas branches will be reorganized, thereby reducing the cost of 80 billion yen. cost.

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