1.   Moreover many firms will use relocation as an opportunity to shed jobs or introduce cheaper and less worthwhile ones.

2.   That will give little cheer to Electroid who only today saw one of their customers, Aylesbury Automations, shed fourteen jobs...

3.   Cheltenham Borough Council is shedding thirteen jobs from its treasury department because there is less work with the new council tax than with the poll tax.

4.   And the big Swiss banks, while they have been huge employers, have been rapidly shedding jobs of late.

5.   Big name companies such as Digital Equipment Corp. and Wang Laboratories were shedding jobs by the thousands.

6.   Both banks have been shedding jobs for years, as a wave of consolidations and mergers has swept through the industry nationally.

7.   Construction companies, retail stores, restaurants, export-import businesses and communications enterprises all shed jobs, more than offsetting modest growth in the financial sector.

8.   Corporations continue to shed jobs as they try to shrink, restructure, merge or acquire their way to improved bottom lines.

9.   Factories shed jobs for the second straight month.

10.   Hotels, restaurants, and department stores shed jobs, while health services, engineering, and public relations gained.