Boston to make more redundancies as part of Costa Rica move
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Less than a week before reporting its second-quarter results, Boston Scientific has indicated that it will cut 167 jobs at a manufacturing facility in Doral, Florida. The redundancies are part of an ongoing plan to relocate the Doral operation to Alajuela, Costa Rica, first disclosed in November 2009.
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