Pfizer announces 6000 job losses

The announcement follows Pfizer's acquisition of its rival company Wyeth in 2009. The cuts would take effect over the coming 18 months, with about 6,000 jobs expected to go worldwide.Eight plants in Ireland, Puerto Rico, and the United States are expected to close by the end of 2015, as well as about 90 jobs from the pharmaceutical plant in Hampshire, although the company said the vaccine packaging and distribution plant in Havant, which employs about 400 people, would remain open....................& more