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Officials: Avon cuts should leave Rye, Suffern mostly untouched

Avon Products has announced that it will cut

Photo credit: AP | Avon Products has announced that it will cut about 1,500 jobs worldwide, but the move is not expected to have a major impact on the company's operations in Rye and Suffern. (Nov. 15, 2005)

The worldwide bloodletting that will eliminate 1,500 positions within Avon Products Inc. is not expected to have a major impact on operations in Rye and Suffern, local officials say.

On Tuesday, the beleaguered door-to-door cosmetics sales company announced global job cuts and plans to pull out of the South Korean and Vietnamese markets, where 100 staffers were employed. Managers also began...

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