Abbott Labs To Lay Off Close to 700–Big Impact At Vascular Stent Manufacturing Plant in Temecula, California

It was just a few months ago that the company announced they were splitting the device and the drug divisions into 2 separate companies and it looks like this is part of the overall restructuring plan.  When the plan was announced, 1900 jobs were the targeted number and thus far as indicated below the diagnostics area has been saved so far.  BD 

Abbott Labs To Split Drugs and Devices Into Two Separate Companies

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Abbott plans to lay off around 700 employees as part of an ongoing restructuring, and though a couple hundred of those job cuts will come from its diagnostics business its molecular diagnostics operations will be spared, a company spokesman told GenomeWeb Daily News on Wednesday.

News of the layoffs was first reported by the Associated Press following Abbott's release of its fourth-quarter and fiscal-year 2011 financial results. Though Abbott didn't mention the cuts on its conference call Wednesday, its financial statement noted a $332 million pre-tax charge for "restructuring/integration/other."

Most of the layoffs will affect employees that manufacture vascular stents in Temecula, Calif., as well as some employees in the firm's core diagnostics business in Illinois, and pharmaceutical manufacturing, the spokesman said. He added that the cuts in the diagnostics business are a continuation of a restructuring plan begun in 2008.

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