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Steinway Musical Instruments Inc.: Conn-Selmer Inc., a subsidiary of Steinway Musical Instruments Inc., said recently that it will close its woodwind manufacturing operations in Kenosha, resulting in the loss of 100 jobs. The production at the 95,000-square-foot plant will be transferred to the company's woodwind facility and headquarters in Elkhart, Ind. Steinway, based in Waltham, Massachusetts., produces various instruments in addition to Leblanc clarinets, including Bach Stradivarius trumpets, Selmer Paris saxophones, C.G. Conn French horns, King trombones, Ludwig snare drums and Steinway & Sons pianos.

NBC Universal: NBC pink-slipped non-writing staffers of Jay Leno's "Tonight Show" and Conan O'Brien's "Late Night" recently, the latest victims of the Hollywood writers' strike against the studios. So-called below-the-line staffers "were told their services were no longer needed as of today," an NBC rep told The TV Column. That includes just under 100 staffers on Leno's show and about 75 on O'Brien's. Also, more than 60 Oxygen staffers have been laid off following NBC Universal's $875 million acquisition of the women's cable network last month. The pink-slipped staffers comprise about 25 percent of Oxygen's roughly 260 employees. The cuts affected employees at all levels in all departments.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Inc.: Bristol-Myers Squibb plans to cut jobs as the pharmaceutical industry wrestles with profits being siphoned off to generic drugs. Bristol-Myers Squibb, whose best selling product is the anticoagulant Plavix, said it would lay off about 4,300 employees and close more than half of its manufacturing plants in a broad restructuring aimed at cost savings of $1.5 billion by 2010. The job cuts at Bristol-Myers represent 10 percent of its staff and will largely be made in 2008 and 2009. The company also said it will close more than 50 percent of its factories by 2010 and reduce by 60 percent the number of brands in its mature products portfolio by 2011.

The Home Depot Inc.: The Home Depot is going to lay off 750 people in the Tampa Bay area and is expected to close its Brandon call center soon, and an additional 200 at smaller sites in Chicago and Dallas. The call centers handled quotes and follow-up calls for customers who go into Home Depot stores and order window, door and flooring installations. After January, those tasks will be handled by local store employees. Home Depot has eight remaining call centers across the country and the company plans to keep them intact for now.

AMR Corporation: AMR Corp. and its American Airlines Inc. unit will cut their management ranks between 2 percent and 3 percent by the end of the year, eliminating 100 to 200 positions, a company representative said recently. The job cuts are part of AMR's continuing efforts to reduce its costs.

Frontier Airlines Holdings, Inc.: Frontier Airlines said recently it is cutting about 100 jobs amid jet fuel costs that have risen 18 percent since October. Employees were told that the Denver-based carrier was cutting its indirect labor work force by 10 percent. A spokesman described the jobs as corporate jobs not directly related to flight operations and said the cuts represented 1.4 percent of the airline's total work force.