The sites that had directly funded or sponsored top players either closed or cut back.
Earlier this year in Liverpool Council ended the city's mobile library service, closed three libraries in Edge Hill, Great Homer Street and Woolton, and closed and cut opening hours at the remaining libraries.
It closed stores, cut costs and transformed the video rental chain into a modern-day Netflix-killer.
In the meantime, it has closed stores and cut jobs as part of an effort to reduce costs.
The new management closed plants, cut the workforce, sold lacklustre component operations and seemingly restored much of the company's former lustre.
ECONOMIST: The world's biggest carmaker is at sea and floundering
Further, Heller said, there were estimates that within six months after Ohio revoked its sales-tax exemption, at least 100 coin dealerships closed or else cut back their staff.
Nearly a fifth of the schools in his district are set to be closed this year to cut expenses, he said.
More than a third of UK councils have cut or closed some public sports facilities in the past three years, a BBC investigation has found.
Credit card issuers closed risky accounts, cut credit limits on millions of accounts, and tightened lending standards to cut their risk of defaults and late payments.
FORBES: Credit Card Issuers Report Declines in Defaults, Delinquencies
Within 18 months of arriving at Nissan in 1999, Mr Ghosn had closed five factories and cut 25, 000 jobs, sold stakes in various parts-makers and cut Nissan's Mount Fuji of debt.
Near Conwy, Ysgol Dolwyddelan is closed due to a power cut at the village of Dolwyddelan.
Like other Big Box stores, all the companies in the Office Supplies category have cut back: closed stores, process re-engineered operations and, like every other sector that was unable to find some level of emotional engagement to hang their brand on, price-promoted, price-promoted, and then did more price-promoting.
FORBES: Office Depot To Buy OfficeMax? And Then There Were Two.
In other efforts to cut costs, the Postal Service has closed or consolidated dozens of mail-processing plants and relocated or cut hours at many post offices.
It comes after Beijing has cut stimulus measures, closed inefficient factories and curbed bank lending.
At least 6, 000 jobs will have to be cut and 200 branches closed to get costs down just to Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi's level.
And in recent months there have been widespread fears over company pensions, as increasing numbers of employers have cut back contributions or closed generous final salary schemes.
To cut costs, it closed the three major flagships New York, London and Sander's pride, the Paris store on Avenue Montaigne and opened smaller boutiques at less prestigious addresses.
Tim Southee cut loose as Australia closed in on victory, smashing Clark for two sixes, but the match came to an end as Chris Martin's middle stump was uprooted by Johnson to complete his man-of-the-match display.
In 2003, to cut costs, the firm closed its final salary pension scheme to new employees.
Meanwhile, amid sequentially lower Provenge revenue and sales force turnover, Dendreon cut another 600 jobs and closed a New Jersey facility.
Since the beginning of December, the unit at Malton hospital has cut its opening hours and closed on weekends in a bid to save money.
Jobs were cut from overhead and at stores, product lines were cut, and stores were closed every quarter in an effort to preserve dwindling cash flow.
FORBES: Sears? Stop the subsidies, sell the stock, invest in Groupon
More often, they cut communication and withdraw behind closed doors.
Bruised and cut, with both eyes virtually closed, she said her female employer had viciously beaten her around the head that morning with a rattan cane.
Last fall, it cut 5% of its workforce and closed multiple games.
The balcony doors were closed for hours the day Miss Zahau was supposedly cut down, how is that possible, there was no breeze it was an enclosed courtyard and besides the doors open inward to close the doors a breeze had to come from inside the room.
Likewise, Ford has closed five American factories in the past three years, cut production for the past 11 quarters and will go further still to lower stocks of unsold cars.
Hamilton closed right up to Raikkonen on lap 42 but he fatefully cut the Bus Stop chicane after pulling out of a passing move at the end of the lap.
应用推荐