Dixons 削減（する）s 350 長，率いる office 職業s

By This Is Money
Updated: 00:00 BST, 18 March 2003

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ELECTRICAL retailer Dixons is to 削減（する） up to 350 長，率いる-office 職業s because of the 衝撃 of 堅い 貿易（する）ing 条件s. The move comes two months after Dixons 報告（する）／憶測d disappointing Christmas sales and 警告するd 年次の 利益（をあげる）s would 落ちる short of market hopes.

Most of the 削減（する）s will be at （警察，軍隊などの）本部 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, although Dixons hopes some positions will be lost through normal staff turnover.

The company also 発表するd today that it was selling nearly a third of its 火刑／賭ける in internet service provider Wanadoo in a 広範囲にわたって 心配するd move 目的（とする）d at 支えるing its balance sheet by about £143m.

Dixons took a 火刑／賭ける in Wanadoo after it sold UK internet portal Freeserve to the company, nearly three-４半期/4分の1s owned by フラン Telecom, in February 2001.

A lock-up period 封鎖するing Dixons from selling some of its 持つ／拘留するing 満了する／死ぬd on February 21. Dixons 持つ／拘留するs a その上の 48.4 million 株 which will remain in lock-up for 180 days, the company said.