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ATLANTA (AP) — Coca-Cola plans to eliminate 6,000
jobs, its biggest employment cutback ever, as part of a ma
jor restructuring at the world’s largest soft drink maker.
The cuts announced today will affect 2,500 positions at
the company’s Atlanta headquarters, 2,700 overseas and 800
jobs around the United States. Coke estimated that the cuts
will save $300 million.
The size of the cuts surprised many analysts who had pre
dicted Coke would trim 2,000 to 4,000 jobs.
It is the latest move by the company to boost its profits
since President Douglas Daft was designated to become
chairman and CEO after its April shareholders’ meeting.
Daft has been trying to decentralize Coke’s operations so
the company can react more quickly to problems that arise
in its markets around the world.
Today, he said product recalls in several European coun
tries last year had been “a wake-up call” that made compa
ny officials realize they were not well-prepared to deal with
local situations. More of the company’s international officers
will be sent out of Atlanta to the areas they oversee.
Daft, who will succeed M. Douglas Ivester in the com
pany’s top posts, called the cuts “painful both for those with
in the company who will be directly affected and for those
responsible for making this decision.”
Coke also said it will take an $800 million charge before 1
taxes this year to cover costs of the realignment. Laid-off !
workers will be offered severance packages, outplacement
and counseling.
Daft said the decision was made after a six-month, com
prehensive review of the company’s entire operation and the
realization that Coke needed to restructure its operations.
“This was not a targeted number. There was no sense of
saying we need to reduce X number of positions,” he said
this morning.
“The concept was w hat business structure do w e need for
the future? And once you do that... then you come up w ith
a new organizational structure and that’s where you put your
people, and then you come up with a number.”
Coke recalled beverages in Belgium and France this sum
mer when people complained of illness after drinking the prod
ucts. Coca-Cola-produced mineral water was recalled twice in
Poland, when a customer found mold in a bottle and later due
to bacterial contamination.
The recalls were only part of Coke’s worldwide problems
last year. Takeover attempts of the French brand Orangina and
Coke leaves a bitter taste
Coca Cola announced Wednesday that it'
its global work force, with its Atlanta headc
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JFK assassination films donated
DALLAS (AP) — An amateur cam
eraman’s now-famous home movies of
President John F. Kennedy's assassination
have made their way back to the Dallas
plaza where the 1963 shooting took place.
The survivors of Abraham Zapruder
have decided to give their last original du
plicate of the film and its copyright to the
Sixth Floor Museum, named after the
sixth-floor window where Lee Harvey Os
wald fired the fatal shots.
The donation represents a potential
windfall in licensing income and prestige
for the 11-year-old Dallas museum, which
stands next to the spot where the president
met his demise. It is owned by the city and
the county.
“This is a coup,” Jeff West, the muse
um’s executive director, told today’s The
Dallas Morning News. “It’s truly transfor
mational for us, and it secures our future,
not just financially but historically.”
In a written statement about the muse
um gift, the Zapruder heirs said the deci
sion keeps alive the family’s desire to pro
tect the film from exploitative tactics.
“The guiding principle for the use of
the film, established by our father and
grandfather at the outset in 1963, was the
balance of respect for the sensitive nature
of tlie images with appropriate access by
the public,” the statement read.
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nation because it had confidence museum
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intention to transfer the copyright s own
ership to a public institution in August, al
ter an arbitration panel ordered the U.S.
government to pay the heirs $16 million
plus interest for the original film.
The Assassination Records Review
Board in 1997 declared the film the per
manent possession of the people of the
United States.
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last month.
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