TNS Infratest Makes Job Cuts

In Germany, the TNS Infratest Group - which includes TNS Emnid - has announced that it is to shed 35 staff positions at its Bielefeld site. While 20 employees have been made redundant, 15 others have been offered jobs in the firm's Hamburg office.

CEO Hartmut Scheffler made the announcement at a staff meeting yesterday, saying that the job cuts had been made as a result of the economic crisis: 'We feel the slowdown is not as fast as other industries, but it is more than a dent,' he stated.

Scheffler explained that the restructure was being made partly because of changes in the company resulting from WPP's purchase of parent company TNS.

He also scotched rumours that the Bielefeld site could be closed permanently at some point in the future, and confirmed that all TNS Infratest offices in Munich, Bielefeld, Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Wetzlar will remain open.

Following the merger of TNS and RI earlier in the year, the company announced last week that TNS Infratest will now be known in Germany as TNS Infratest RI.

Web site: www.tns-infratest.com .

All articles 2006-23 written and edited by Mel Crowther and/or Nick Thomas, 2024- by Nick Thomas, unless otherwise stated.

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