In this morning's post on AOL, Douglas McIntyre posted a list of the layoff kings in this economy. These 25 companies have resulted in 700,000 jobs since 2007. The list is as follows:
- General Motors 107,357 positions
- Citigroup 73,056 positions
- Hewlitt Packard 47,540 positions
- Circuit City 41,495 positions
- Merrill Lynch 40,650 positions
- Verizon Wireless 39,000 positions
- Pfizer 31,771 positions
- Merck and Company 24,400 positions
- Lehman Brothers 23,340 positions
- Catepillar 23, 024 positions
- JPMorgan Chase 21,316 positions
- Starbucks 21,316 positions
- AT & T 18,401 positions
- Alcoa 17,655 positions
- Dow Chemical 17.350 positions
- DuPont 17,000 positions
- Berkshire Hataway 16,900 positions
- Ford Motor Company 15,912 positions
- KB Toys 15,100 positions
- US Postal Service 15,000 positions
- DHL Express 14,900 positions
- Speint Nextel 14,500 positions
- Sun Microsystems 14,000 positions
- Boeing 13,715 positions
- Chrysler 13,672 positions
Strategy: Looking for successes in this economy, look into the efforts of your local economic development organizations around a relatively new term called economic gardening. These are companies with 10-99 employees with a five year track record that are growing in this economy. They might be candidates for your services.
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