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法国阿尔卡特与美国朗迅达成合并交易
Alcatel and Lucent in €30bn deal

阿尔卡特(Alcatel)和朗迅(Lucent)昨天敲定了双方急切期待的交易，此次交易将创造一家世界领先的电信供应商，并有望实现14亿欧元(合17亿美元)的成本削减。这些成本削减将部分通过裁员实现，合并后的公司将把总计达8.8万的员工数量减少10%。
Alcatel and Lucent yesterday sealed their eagerly awaited deal to create a world leading communications supplier with a promise to deliver €1.4bn ($1.7bn) in cost savings, partly through a 10 per cent cut in the combined 88,000-strong workforce.

朗迅首席执行官帕特丽夏·鲁索(Patricia Russo)承认，大幅裁员可能会使该交易面临风险。她表示，公司的精简行动将以“审慎的速度”和“透明方式”予以处理。
Recognising that the heavy job cut programme could pose risks to the deal, Lucent boss Patricia Russo said the rationalisation would be handled with “prudent speed” and “clarity”.

由于两家公司都竭力想从互联网繁荣期的终结中恢复，双方都已在过去5年里将公司员工数量减半。昨天，深陷劳工改革之争的法国各工会已在公开谴责裁员计划。
Both companies have cut their workforces in half over the last five years as they struggled to recover from the end of the internet boom. Yesterday unions in France, locked in a battle over labour reforms, were already denouncing the job cut plans.

这笔交易还得克服美国可能出现的政治关切，因为朗迅的贝尔实验室(Bell Labs)在美国接手高度敏感的军工合同。然而，鲁索女士和阿尔卡特执行董事长塞吉·特鲁克(Serge Tchuruk)表示有信心克服这些风险。两家公司合并后，将单独成立一家董事会设在美国的公司，专门处理由朗迅及其贝尔实验室研究分部承接的敏感合同。
The deal will also have to surmount possible political concerns in the US, where Lucent’s Bell Labs works on highly sensitive defence contracts. Nevertheless Ms Russo and Serge Tchuruk, executive chairman of Alcatel, were confident the risks could be overcome. A separate company with a US board would be formed to manage sensitive contracts run by Lucent and its Bell Labs research division.

阿尔卡特和朗讯合并后，电信设备业将产生一家销售额210亿欧元、市值300亿欧元的公司，规模仅次于美国的思科(Cisco)。特鲁克先生表示，目前大型运营商正通过合并，向供应商施加更大压力，这种不断变化的市场特性，使得企业必须扩大“范围与规模”。
Bringing Alcatel and Lucent together would create a company with sales of €21bn and a market value of €30bn, second only to Cisco of the US in the telecoms equipment business. The changing nature of the market, where big operators were merging to put greater pressure on suppliers, made “scope and scale” necessary, said Mr Tchuruk.

鲁索女士表示，这起交易“是一次很有说服力的结合，因为目前竞争、整合和复杂局面在推动变革”。鲁索女士将担任合并后集团的首席执行官。
Ms Russo, who will be chief executive of the combined group, said the deal was “a compelling combination at a time when competition, consolidation and complexity are driving change.”

阿尔卡特与朗讯合并后的企业，将在固话和移动技术融合领域占据全球领先地位，在它的几乎全部市场中成为两强之一。
Alcatel/Lucent would rank in one of the top two positions in almost all of its markets, with a global lead in the convergence of fixed and mobile technology.

合并后的公司还将拥有全行业最大的研发能力，年度研发预算将达24亿欧元。
It would also command the industry’s biggest research and development capacity, with an annual budget of €2.4bn.

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