1.   The employees would prefer profits to be lower if maximising them involves plant closures or the introduction of job-destroying technology.

2.   The plant closure could have an impact of unknown dimension on the local economy.

3.   This is due to be announced next month and is widely predicted to involve jobs losses and possible plant closures.

4.   Employers could provide advance warning of intended plant closures or major reorganisation.

5.   At the same time, the companies hoped to reduce the overall costs for the combined company through job cuts and plant closures.

6.   Dave Hoover, chief financial officer of Ball, declined to project potential job cuts or plant closures.

7.   Each faces sliding market share in home markets, production cutbacks or plant closures.

8.   Earlier, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin vowed in a closed-door address to Socialist deputies that the government would ensure the Vilvoorde plant closure does not entail any firings.

9.   For years, recruiters have blamed falling enrollment at textile schools on headlines about plant closures and rising imports.