It said increases in wages, lower ticket sales and restructuring costs all contributed to the loss.
Penney was down 1.4% after a third-quarter loss driven by restructuring costs and a dip in sales.
The company said it did not anticipate any material restructuring costs as a result of the reorganisation.
Troubled music, films and games retailer HMV has posted an annual loss due to falling sales and restructuring costs.
Excluding restructuring costs and costs related to selling its stake in Best Buy Europe, it earned 36 cents per share.
Along with restructuring costs, we expect cash flows to be negative in at least the first two quarters of this year.
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Ford said its losses in Europe reflected "unfavourable" market factors, but also restructuring costs related to its "transformation" plan for its European business.
It said profit for the rest of this year would be "shaped by ongoing pressure on revenues" including provisions set aside for bad debt and restructuring costs.
However, profits at the group's grocery division will be lower, due to restructuring costs at its George Weston Foods business in Australia, which has faced increased competition.
Mr. Joyce said Friday that turnaround strategy is starting to pay off even as the airline faces restructuring costs which he expects to weigh on the second-half result.
Woolworths' shares ended almost flat after profit dropped 17% on restructuring costs and sale of its Dick Smith electronics stores, but came in broadly in line with market expectations.
On balance the quarter was a respectable one, although some detractors point to easy comparisons to the quarter a year ago that saw a number of one-time and restructuring costs.
The Dutch firm's underlying profitability in the last quarter - net of the fine and various restructuring costs - improved to 875m euros, beating the expectations of most market analysts.
Adjusted operating margin improved 110 basis points to 6.6%, attributed to higher volume and productivity initiatives which helped offset higher employee-related expenses, the impact of changes in product mix, and restructuring costs.
The deal is expected to close in the third quarter and to be neutral to Bank of America earnings per share in 2008 and lift earnings per share in 2009, excluding buyout and restructuring costs.
Seagate expects these transactions and agreements to be meaningfully accretive to non-GAAP diluted earnings per share and cash flow within the first full year following the closing, and Seagate does not expect any material restructuring costs in connection with them.
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But with reasonably safe profits from submarine optics, IP routing and Services, we believe the company is in a position to generate between 1% and 4% operating margins every year going forward, which should turn, over the cycle, into positive cash generation before restructuring costs.
Now the company is undergoing restructuring to cut costs and that plan includes layoffs, SoloPower said Thursday.
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To revive their fortunes, both Christie's and Sotheby's are restructuring and cutting costs.
As I wrote in my last post, my view is that there is much value that is either still unappreciated, or intrinsic in the business plans of companies that are restructuring, cutting costs, globalizing, and continuing to develop world-beating technologies.
This reduction will impact approximately 700 employees, largely as a result of a restructuring focused on indirect costs.
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Additionally, this restructuring helps us reduce costs and streamline the organization as a continuation of the activities we began earlier this year.
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"We did not move fast in restructuring, in reducing costs, " says Navarri.
The company has since partially offset these fears with excellent cash management, restructuring aimed at reducing costs, and more recently, its better than expected 3rd quarter results.
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In late September, the company had announced plans for a restructuring program to reduce costs, including a reduction in force to around 1, 000 by early next year from 1, 275.
Mr Buffett is especially critical of another way of dampening current profits to the benefit of future ones: restructuring charges (the costs, taken in one go, of a corporate reorganisation).
Especially with the costs associated with restructuring an entire business infrastructure when switching from one company to another.
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While the company has taken some steps to cut production capacity and reduce costs, further restructuring is needed to restore profits.
All of this suggests that corporate Japan has come a long way from the days when restructuring was merely about squeezing costs.
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