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Big Dog Lays Off 7 Percent of Its Workforce - A slower than anticipated increase in season business is the reason for Big Dog Motorcycles LLC's decision to lay off 7 percent of its workforce.

http://www.brainbucketmag.com/News/a.../sid=1365.html
 
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Old 03-31-2007, 12:26 AM
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Ain't that the truth, it's slower up here in Eastern Canada also.
 
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Too many custom bike builders to choose from...
 
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Too many custom bike builders to choose from...
....and too many people who have enough sense to not want one.


You just had to know the bloom was comin' off the rose sooner than later.


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Tried to google them and go to their website to see how many employees they have, no luck - How many employees do they have?
 
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ORIGINAL: celtlion

Tried to google them and go to their website to see how many employees they have..no luck..maybe 7% is 10 people...maybe 7% is 100 people??

Maybe someone with more information can clarify?
As of December of 2006, Big Dog employed 261 individuals. This, as per...

http://www.bizjournals.com/wichita/s...6/daily34.html
 
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ORIGINAL: freekdawg1200

Too many custom bike builders to choose from...
As many bikes as they put out, I don't know if you can really call them customs. More like small scale production bikes if you ask me.

7% of 261 is 18 people.
 
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The 7% should be the designers, then hire new ones, some that will design something that people actually want ......
 
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I agree. As nice as they might be, they are a limited production bike.
 
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I'm not sure they are so nice. I checked out their reviews at the web site below. There are a lot of complaints.

http://www.powersportsnetwork.com/en...og+Motorcycles
 


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