BlackBerry-maker RIM has the figures for the first quarter of the fiscal year 2012 have been announced. The company has compared to a quarter earlier, lower revenue, and cutting its workforce.
The sales of RIM in the first quarter of this fiscal year amounted to $ 4.9 billion, 12 percent less than the 5.6 billion dollars the quarter before that was achieved, and less than what analysts had expected.
RIM announced together with the presentation of its quarterly results that the activities are going to ‘streamline’. In addition, the company will among other things cut in its workforce. It is not known how many positions will be deleted and if there is also forced redundancies will fall. According to RIM it should ‘streamline’ for more effiëntie sure. Also announced by RIM that it is to start a program for its shares to buy back.
At the announcement of the quarterly figures, let RIM know that there is in the six weeks after the launch of 500,000 PlayBook tablets have been shipped. The number of shipped BlackBerry smartphones came in the first quarter of fiscal year 2012 at € 13.2 million. The expectation was that RIM 13.5 million shipped.
The profit of RIM nam in the past quarter included: these amounted to 695 million dollars, compared with 934 million dollars in the previous quarter. The profit is also lower than the same quarter last year, when 769 million dollars amounted to. RIM expects that the disappointing results in the next quarter to continue, but that in the subsequent quarters, however good results have been achieved. The drop in quarterly statements would include, but are not caused by the postponement of new products: the release of the BlackBerry 9900/9930 and the blackberry PlayBook with 4g support delayed.