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Burberry to cut capital spending and jobs

by Kate Burgess

23 Jan 2009

Luxury clothing company Burberry is being forced to slash 290 jobs in a bid to cope with struggling sales.

In Spain, the closure of its Thomas Burberry business has cost a further 250 jobs.

Burberry’s difficulties have put the breaks on its expansion into emerging nations. CFO Stacey Cartwright is reported saying that fewer stores would be opened in 2009.

Capital spending would need to be halved, to around £45m in fiscal 2010, Cartwright added.

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