March 25 (Reuters) - HSBC Holdings is cutting about
1,200 jobs in Britain, saying the operating environment for the
battered banking industry was "extremely challenging" and would
remain so for some time.
Unite, a union representing HSBC staff, said the changes
announced on Wednesday would result in 2,900 jobs being lost.
HSBC had cut 500 jobs at its UK banking business in December
following a review of the business, and axed 1,100 investment
banking jobs in September.
Following are details of major job cuts that have been
announced in Britain since last September over and above the
28,000 financial services jobs that the Centre for Economics and
Business Research believes were lost in London in 2008:
* Indicates global job losses where many or most cuts will
be overseas
COMPANY SECTOR NUMBERS DATE
------------------------------------------------------------------ E.ON Utility 400 Sept 16
ITV Media 1,000 Sept 30
Domino Printing Electronics 200* Oct 30
Carlsberg Drinks 170 Nov 5
Corus Steel 400 Nov 6
Dairy Crest Food 100 Nov 10
Virgin Media Media 2,200 Nov 11
BT Group Telecoms 10,000 Nov 13
Wolseley Plumbing 7,300 Nov 18
SIG Construction 900 Nov 19
Rolls-Royce Engine maker 1,500-2,000 Nov 20
British Polythene Packaging 165 Nov 25
GlaxoSmithKline Pharma 1,200 Nov/Dec
Halfords Retailer 250 Dec 1
Aston Martin unlisted Auto 600 Dec 1
Unilever Consumer goods 100 Dec 1
Experian Support services 300 Dec 4
British Airways Airline 500 Dec 7
UBM Publishing 350 Dec 12
M J Gleeson Group Construction 174 Dec 12
National Express Transport 700-750 Dec 17
Woolworths Retailer 27,000 Dec 17
MFI unlisted Retailer 1,200 Dec 19
Adams unlisted Retailer 850 Jan 5
Passion for Perfume unlisted Retailer 194 Jan 5
Cattles Lender 1,000 Jan 7
Marks & Spencer Retailer 1,230 Jan 7
Nissan <7201.T> Autos 1,200 Jan 8
Hays Recruitment 350 Jan 8
Michael Page Recruitment 147 Jan 8
Bovis Homes Construction 200 Jan 9
Go-Ahead Transport 300 Jan 9
Waterford Wedgwood
Household goods 367 Jan 12
JCB unlisted Construction 684 Jan 12
Aga Rangemaster Household goods 400 Jan 13
Jaguar Land Rover
Autos 450 Jan 14
Barclays Banking 4,600 Jan 14
Freemans Grattan unlisted Home shopping 1,000+ Jan 14
South West Trains Transport 480 Jan 15
Renold Industrial 350 Jan 16
Burberry Retail 290 Jan 20
Empire Direct unlisted Retail 350 Jan 21
TT Electronics (TTG.L> Electronics 700 Jan 21
Corus Steelmaker 2,500 Jan 26
Sofa Workshop unlisted Retail 170 Jan 26
St Ives Printing 170 Jan 26
Scapa Industrial 140 Jan 27
Thames Water Utility 300 Jan 28
Shop Direct unlisted Retail 900 Jan 28
Cookson Industrial 1,250 Jan 29
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals 7,520*
(by 2013) Jan/Mar
London Underground
unlisted Transport 1,000 Jan 29
KCom Telecoms 150 Jan 30
Ford UK Auto 850 Feb 5
WS Atkins Consultancy 930 Feb 11
Castings Engineering 350 Feb 12
Hyder Consulting Consultancy 400 Feb 12
Oxford Instruments
Electricals 230 Feb 12
Virgin Atlantic Airlines 600 Feb 12
BMW (Mini) Auto 850 Feb 16
GKN Auto 800 Feb 17
Zavvi unlisted Retailer 1,272 Feb 18
JJB Sports Retailer 438 Feb 19
Barratt Dev Housebuilder 700 Feb 25
Standard Life Life Assurance 232 Feb 25
RSA Insurance Insurance 1,200 Feb 26
Meggitt Aerospace up to 750* Mar 3
ITV Media 600 Mar 4
IMI Engineering 1,500* Mar 4
Renishaw Engineering 600 Jan/Mar
Principles unlisted Retail up to 2,000 Mar 7
Home Retail Group Retail 300 Mar 12
Daily Mail Media 1,000 Mar 23
HSBC Holdings Banking 2,800 Sept/Dec/Mar
Notes:
For companies that have had more than one round of job cuts,
numbers are shown against the date of the most recent
announcement and, where available, show the total number to
date.
(Compiled by Matthew Scuffham, Rosalba O'Brien and UK equities
team; Additional writing by Jijo Jacob; Additional writing and
editing by David Cutler)
