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Toronto, Canada – Rumours of coming cuts to  Cott Corp’s current employee roster, across the full spectrum of the troubled soft drink producers many divisions, were heard grinding the rumour mill in the employee locker room of the world’s largest producer of store-branded carbonated soft drinks for groceries and other retailers, mostly in the United States , Canada and Mexico.

This comes after Cott recently parted ways with former CEO Brent Willis, after the corporation was informed by Wall-Mart, its largest customer that it was going to loose some of its valuable shelf-space and merchandising support at the world’s number one retailer, and the recent appointment of Director David Gibbons to the empty post of CEO at the corporation.

Rumours floating around the corporations have employees doubting the new CEO and dreading any plans he might have for cutting costs at the corporation.

Nobody at the company could be contacted, despite repeated attempts, they are probably busy planning the demise of thousands of highly trained and valued employees, and may want to hold off on any announcement until  Thursday, when they have a scheduled meeting of the board.

In conclusion, Cott has been the talk of troubled waters lately, but they have been awful quiet about the whole affair, you’d think they would at least implement a policy of commenting to try to alleviate the current stress being experienced by many of their worried employees, but then maybe they don’t expect to have to deal with many of these employees soon.

Chennai, India – India’s automotive workers are about to get additional employment options.  Today, automotive components manufacturer Emcon Technologies India, announced plans to build a plant in Singur, West Bengal, to manufacture exhaust systems for Nano, the low cost car from Tata Motors, in partnership with Anand Automotive Systems of India.

Turning the rumour mill as rumours that the growing firm as plans to put even more workers to work, by opening additional plants at Pune and other sites which weren’t named.

The plant at Singur is in the planning stages Emcon officials said when contacted for comment, they did confirm rumours of the Pune facility, but would not give specifics about any other planned plants in the works in India’s growing automotive sector.

In conclusion, all the big and small manufacturers of parts for the automotive industry and the car makers themselves are surely making plans to unveil new, Earth-friendly, car models by 2010, Mother
Earth would be proud, if it wasn’t for the previous 2000 years of human progress.

Chennai, India – Rumours of several international companies currently being courted by Hong Kong-based shipping firm Wallem Ship Management as a possible partner for Wallem’s current plans to expand its operations with the opening of a new division of its world-wide shipping agency.  Has ignited talk today that this country that currently operates facilities in 18 countries around the world is planning to lead a charge to educate its workers and provide it with the thousands of trained officers it needs to operate its company safely and efficiently in the decades to come.  Currently, shipping industry experts think the sector has a shortage of about 10,000 trained officers and that this number will increase to around 35,000 by 2050, if steps aren’t taken now to alleviate this.

Talking to Wallem representatives was fun and enlightening, as the company indicated that the they have in recent years been rethinking policy and moving toward recognition and then implementation of policies to alleviate the shortage of trained officers for their operations and that the planned expansion of the companies in-house training centres is part of an overall plan to allow the company to be a leader in the industry in the decades to come.

In conclusion, this is a healthy attitude, sure to spark belief in the firms direction, in both employees and investors, who are truly in touch with the future of their industry and are looking for both additional opportunities and good examples for other companies to emulate, we salute their diligence and understanding of the importance their workforce plays in the future of their industry and profits, bravo!