Anglo American plans fresh job cuts as part of restructuring
Anglo American is planning more job cuts at its corporate office, as it restructures its business by selling assets and spinning off its platinum unit.
The company has sent notices to employees who are likely to be affected, people with knowledge of the matter said, asking not to be identified as a public announcement hasn’t been made.
The job cuts are in line with the company’s disposals and other restructuring plans, Anglo American said in response to queries. Consultations have just begun and the number of people affected is yet to be determined, the company said.
Anglo began restructuring the business last year after it had to fend off a $43-billion take-over bid by rival BHP Group.
It has sold its coking coal and nickel businesses and is on track to spin off most of its controlling holding in Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) by June, the company said. It also plans to either sell or hold an initial public offering for its De Beers unit, which is the world’s biggest diamond company.
Most of its corporate staff are in South Africa where the company was founded by Ernest Oppenheimer in 1917 to exploit the world’s biggest goldfields, the Witwatersrand. During the isolation brought by apartheid it expanded from mining into businesses ranging from banking to paper making.
After an initial round of divestments it moved its headquarters to London in 1998.
The company slashed jobs at its main South African corporate office in 2023 and later fired workers at its iron ore unit, which it is retaining, and at Amplats.
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