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Breedlove cuts jobs

Breedlove Guitar Co., the Bend-based guitar and mandolin manufacturer, cut five jobs, or 10 percent of its staff, last week, said Connie Hensley-Jones, controller. Breedlove, which makes 15,000 instruments annually and sells to customers around the world, is projecting flat sales in the U.S. this year, Hensley-Jones said. Forty-six workers remain, she said.

“It’s just a reflection of trying to find the right size for our manufacturing operations for the coming year,” she said. “We felt we were overstaffed and we needed to cut back.”

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