Nixdorf Computer AG reports that first half turnover rose 13% to the equivalent of $1,100m worldwide – 18% in West Germany – and the company looks for profits to grow on double-digit sales growth for the full 1987 year: Nixdorf has already invested 16% more than in the first half of last year at some $140m to improve manufacturing technology, engineering and software production, but, again lending the lie to the idea that automation means lost jobs, it has also hired almost 2,000 more people in the first half to take its payroll to 27,450, and 1,950 of the 18,150 in Germany are trainees; France and Spain are to start training programmes in 1988.
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