Santa Ana’s Ingram Micro Inc., the top distributor of technology goods, software and consumer electronics, started a round of layoffs last week that’s set to slash roughly 300 jobs.
Ingram, which is Orange County’s largest public company by revenue, is expecting to cut about 8% of its workforce in North America.
About 150 of the job cuts are coming at the company’s Santa Ana headquarters and other sites in the U.S., including about 100 at its Williamsville, N.Y., campus, according to CRN.com, the Web site of trade publication Computer Reseller News.
Another 50 cuts are coming in Canada.
Local layoffs included at least one high ranking executive, Carol Kurimsky, who was vice president of marketing for North America.
The cuts come as Ingram braces for tough quarterly results.
Ingram Micro Chief Executive Greg Spierkel warned about slumping sales and softer demand in the current quarter and said the company “expects 2009 to be even more challenging.”
The company expects first-quarter sales to be off about 20% from last year’s $10 billion in revenue for the same period. It didn’t give a profit outlook.
,Sarah Tolkoff
