EON start to cut staff TEAMCAR - EDARAN Otomobil Nasional Bhd (EON), the dealer of Proton cars, is cutting manpower amid shrinking sales.

"EON's sales volume has been down in the last two quarters. The current condition cannot support the company's infrastructure and overhead."Therefore, best business practice dictates the need for the VSS," EON managing director Datuk Syed Hisham Syed Wazir told Business Times yesterday.

National passenger car sales for March, according to the Malaysian Automotive Association, declined 8.6 per cent to 26,305 units from 28,782 units. Non-national car sales fell 31.5 per cent to 7,404 units from 10,820 units in the same month in 2005.  ¶ 3:21 PM