LONDON (Kyodo) Nissan Motor Co.’s British manufacturing operation announced Thursday it will ax around 1,200 jobs due to “extremely challenging” conditions in the British car market.
Nissan will become the first Japanese carmaker operating in Britain to cut jobs during the current economic downturn. The cuts represent about a quarter of Nissan’s workforce at its plant in Sunderland, northeast England.
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