Aug 26 (Reuters) - Japanese IT firm Fujitsu Ltd said on Wednesday it was cutting up to 1,200 jobs in the UK in response to lower-than-anticipated revenues.
The company, which employs 12,500 people in the UK, said the action was necessary to remain competitive in the current difficult economic climate.
Following are details of major job cuts announced in Britain since March:
* Indicates global job losses where many or most cuts will be overseas COMPANY SECTOR NUMBERS DATE --------------------------------------------------------------- Meggitt Aerospace up to 750* March 3 ITV Media 1,600 March 4 IMI Engineering 1,500* March 4 Principles Retail up to 2,000 March 7 Home Retail Group Retail 300 March 12 Daily Mail Media 1,000 March 23 Go-Ahead Transport 800 March 25 Man Group Hedge fund 270 March 26 BHP Billiton Ltd
Mining 400* March 26 Brawn GP Formula One 270 March 29 Man Group Hedge Funds 270 March 26 Jarvis Plc Rail services 450 March 31 Homeserve Insurance 250 March 31 BP Energy 620* April 1 Bombardier Inc Train/aircraft 975 April 2 Aviva Plc Life insurer 1,100 April 2 RBS Banking 2,700 April 3 Electrocomponents Electricals 470 April 3 Hampson Aerospace 150 April 3 RBS Banking 11,700* April 7 Helphire Group Plc
Accident claim handler 310 April 9 Toledo Mining Corporation
Mining 600* April 14 HSBC Holdings Banking 2,900 April 21 Lavendon Group Plc Rental 225 April 23 Cattles Lender 1,130 April 28 Elementis Plc Chemicals 138 April 29 Charter International
Plc Engineer 1,200 April 29 Logica Plc IT 300* April 30 BAE Systems PLC Defence 500 April 30 Cadogan Petroleum
Plc Oil and gas 126 April 30 Wincanton Supply chain 283 April 30 Sage Group PLC Software 700 May 6 Firstgroup PLC Transport 3,500 May 13 Cookson Group Plc Industrial 3,200* May 14
materials BT Group Telecoms 25,000 May 14 John Menzies Plc Distribution &
Aviation 400 May 14 White Young Green Consultancy 324 May 18 QinetiQ Group Defence 400 May 21 AXA Insurance Insurer 560 June 11 Corus Steel maker 1,922 June 25 Diageo Plc Spirits 500 July 1 Penguin Books Publisher 100 July 7 Jaguar Land Rover Auto 300 July 15 Inchcape Auto 350 July 29 GKN Engineering 1,200 Aug 04 Allied Carpets Retailer 850 Aug 14 Lloyds Banking Group Banking 6,770* Aug 25 Fujitsu Ltd IT 1,200 Aug 26 --------------------------------------------------------------- TOTAL 85,833 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 UK equities team; additional writing and editing by Jijo Jacob, David Cutler and Carl Bagh)