Sharp to Cut 5,000 Jobs As Quarterly Loss Worsens

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August 2, 2012 Print A shopper looks at Sharp Corp.'s AQUOS Liquid Crystal Television at a retail shop in a Tokyo.

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp. is slashing 5,000 jobs over the next year, or nearly 9 percent of its global workforce, after its quarterly loss ballooned from a year earlier.

Osaka-based Sharp reported Thursday that its April-June loss swelled to 138.4 billion yen ($1.8 billion) from 49 billion yen of red ink a year earlier.

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Quarterly sales plunged 28 percent to 458.6 billion yen ($5.9 billion) as sales crashed in liquid crystal displays, flat-panel TVs and mobile phones.

Sharp forecast a bigger loss for the business year through March 2013. It now expects a 250 billion yen ($3.2 billion) loss compared with the 30 billion yen ($385 million) loss it projected earlier.

Sharp said the jobs cuts will come through voluntary and mandatory retirement and other arrangements.

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