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Levi Strauss & Co., one of many world’s most famous fashion brands, is shedding over 100 workers at their California workplace.
The corporate, recognized for its iconic blue denims, introduced 146 workers can be lower from their San Francisco headquarters.
California workers cuts are unlikely to be the final — the corporate beforehand introduced extra widespread terminations are on the horizon.
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On this photograph illustration Levi’s 501 blue denims by U.S. clothes producer Levi Strauss are seen on sale. ((Photograph by Sean Gallup/Getty Photographs) / Getty Photographs)
Levi has beforehand speculated that it’ll lower between 10% and 15% of its world-wide workforce within the first half of 2024.
The cuts are a part of the corporate’s world productiveness initiative and are anticipated to happen over the primary half of the yr beneath incoming CEO Michelle Gass.
The corporate is making an attempt to quickly tighten its belt because it contends with macroeconomic challenges and ongoing points inside its U.S. wholesale enterprise.
LEVI’S TO CUT UP TO 15% OF GLOBAL WORKFORCE
An indication is posted in entrance of the Levi Strauss & Co. headquarters in San Francisco, California displaying the corporate brand. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
“There’s been quite a lot of volatility this previous yr, some in our management, some outdoors. And so we’re taking a cautious method as we glance ahead,” Gass stated in an earnings name with analysts.
The corporate has 20,000 workers globally, about 5,000 of whom are company workers. This implies the layoffs will impression between 500 and 700 folks.
The corporate hasn’t confirmed which departments or areas will likely be impacted.
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Facet view of Levi’s Stadium, house of the San Francisco 49ers soccer group, considered via timber throughout a car parking zone, within the Silicon Valley, Santa Clara, California. ((Photograph by Smith Assortment/Gado/Getty Photographs) / Getty Photographs)
On the identical time the expectations of worldwide terminations was introduced, Levi Strauss & Co. additionally agreed to a $170 million deal to maintain the corporate’s identify on the San Francisco 49ers stadium in Santa Clara. The settlement extends all the best way till 2043.
Gass was tapped to take over Levi’s in November 2022 and assumed the function of president through the transition course of. Throughout that point, she labored carefully with the corporate’s government management group and present CEO, Chip Bergh.
Fox Enterprise’s Daniella Genovese contributed to this report.
