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Aug 6, 2008 7:42 pm US/Eastern

Procter & Gamble Cutting Jobs In Mass.

BOSTON (AP) ― The Procter & Gamble Co.'s shaving and grooming unit will shed about 215 jobs in Boston over the next five years as it moves production of older blades and razors to Poland, Mexico and elsewhere.

Spokeswoman Kelly Vannasse says a contractor who runs Gillette's Devens warehousing and packaging facility will also eliminate up to 340 positions as the company transfers some of the operation to Andover next year and the remaining work to Mexico by 2010.

The company on Wednesday declined to disclose costs for the restructuring.

Vannasse says that most of the jobs lost in Boston will be through attrition, retirement or voluntary separation packages. The cuts represent about 9 percent of the company's Massachusetts employees.

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