Newbury-based mobile phone firm Vodafone is to speed up its plans to cut £1 billion in costs.
So far the programme has delivered around £200 million in savings to Vodafone, which today reported a 54.4 per cent drop in its profit during the last year.
It now wants to up the speed at which it cuts costs from an original plan of £500 million by March 2010 to £650 million.
In the last year Vodafone has reduced its sales forecast twice and in its latest budget report did not give any indication as to an exact sales amount prediction for the next 12 months.
It is thought that the company's Spanish business is behind much of the problem with Vodafone having to write-off £5.9 billion in the last year because of it.
The mobile phone company is the largest in the world in terms of turnover and is marketed in five continents.
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