Posted on 01/18/2007 11:46:27 AM PST by NormsRevenge
CAMARILLO
Technicolor Inc. is moving 630 jobs from its Ventura County DVD manufacturing and distribution plant to Guadalajara, Mexico.
About 120 workers were laid off Wednesday, Technicolor spokesman Tom Bracken said. Another 510 positions will be phased out over the next six to seven months, he said.
When the layoffs are completed, Technicolor will still have up to 500 employees in Camarillo, down from a peak of nearly 2,000 several years ago. Some 300 jobs were eliminated in July.
Bracken said the cuts were being made under pressure from movie studios to lower costs. Studios have been demanding that Technicolor lower its prices so retail DVD prices can be reduced.
"Our customers, like Disney and Universal, want lower prices from us," he said. "The only way we can do that is to reduce our costs, reduce head count and centralize our operations in our low-cost manufacturing facility in Mexico."
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I don't blame them with the hostile business environment that Arnold and his band of liberals are creating.
of course, instead of laying off the poor working stiff, you could stop paying the likes of Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, etc, those astronomical multimillion dollar fees. in fact, knowing their liberal bent, i'm sure they will demand that their fees be cut to keep these people employed ---- hello? hello?
They're not Relaxin' at Camarillo anymore.
Cue.
'Kay..
OK :-)
I used to work in this specific industry in a high level job and the truth is these jobs are not lower level jobs, but at the same time all the factors listed above hinder the owners from lowing costs and staying here. Too bad. Funny the Mexicans come here and our businesses move there. When will it all sync up?
Does anyone actually believe that? CDs were supposed to be a lot cheaper than LPs because they're cheaper to make. Did anyone see that happen?
I doubt Charlie Parker did a lot of relaxin at Camarillo, either.
Reading stuff like this makes me more mad about matters in Calif.
People still want to say that %40 DVD piracy, run-away film production to other countries, Arnold's questionable politics against Californians, and labor union's illegal alien pandering don't effect families and quality of life.
Puleeezzeee.
Worried about the consumer, are they.
Sales of the Terminator DVDs must be down.
""Our customers, like Disney and Universal, want lower prices from us," he said. "The only way we can do that is to reduce our costs, reduce head count and centralize our operations in our low-cost manufacturing facility in Mexico.""
Translation:
"And even if we didn't have this excuse, we would be moving to Mexico anyway to increase our profits."
Standard PR flak for companies downsizing, etc. is to blame some other force, fictional or not, in order to salvage reputation and civility.
Admitting that economic forces, more profitability, mandates the move in the NAFTA world not polite.
"Does anyone actually believe that?"
No.
Business PR flak.
They'd move anyway.
I knew someone who worked at this facility....he padded his income by selling bootleg DVDs out of the back of his Escalade.
Most of the bootleggers work inside the industry in some way.
Me either, though the location's great. It's no longer a State Mental Hospital. The powers that be have turned it into California State University -- Channel Islands, another ultra-Left CSU political indoctrination and brainwashing facility.
I bet they are more worried piracy and pay per view on cable. (although they probably make a pretty penny from the cable companies for those pay per views.) They may have figured out that cheap DVD's are the best way to fight piracy. With economies of scale they may be able to make a good profit with DVD prices low enough that piracy is no longer feasible. If they got DVD's under 10 bucks it really wouldn't be worth the hassle of downloading, ripping or black marketing them. Especially when the cost of a blank double sided DVD is still close to at least 2 bucks.
I think it is the same strategy they are using in Asia...they are lowering the DVD price to $3 to make it not worth it to bootleg product....since it is not worth the hassle anymore.
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