Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG looks for sales to rise 15% in the current fiscal year to September 30 1992, limiting its losses for the year, but it says that a weak computer market could prevent it achieving an operating profit in the following year, fiscal 1993: the company lost the equivalent of $491m on sales down 3% at $7,617m; at the operating level, the loss was $170m; the company told the Wall Street Journal that it looks for orders this year to rise 10% to $8,183m; the company says that all the exceptional charges arose from the Nixdorf side of the house, and included payments to cover irregularities by top managers at the Spanish subsidiary, all now fired.
