Sweden’s mobile network giant Ericsson said last Wednesday it would cut 450 Swedish sales and administrative jobs as part of the adjustment of its operations in the country.

“Ericsson is informing its employees today on an adjustment of its activities which imply a reduction of about 400 jobs in Stockholm and around 50 jobs in Gothenburg within sales and administration,” the company said in a statement.

The company said the cuts were necessary following a new structure put in place in 2010 and according to which “certain competences within sales and administration moved closer to clients”. Ericsson’s head of HR in Sweden said it was “a very sad decision” to cut staff in Stockholm and Gothenburg but said the company has started a process to recruit some 250 engineers for activities in Sweden.

At around 12.20 p.m., the company’s stock was up 1.23 per cent to 78.0 kronor (€8.72) on a Stockholm stock exchange up 0.52 per cent.

Ericsson’s headquarters are in Stockholm and the company has some 17,848 employees in Sweden and 90,000 worldwide.

It is the market leader in mobile network equipment ahead of Finnish-German giant Nokia Siemens, French-based telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent and China’s Huawei.

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