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From there each country represents a percent of the worldmarket

The San Rafael, California-based Autodesk joins a growinglist of technology companies that have dampened expectations andannounced plans to cut workers. They include AT&T Inc (T.N), EMCCorp (EMC.N), Intel (INTC.O), Motorola (MOT.N), SAP AG (SAPG.DE)and Sun Microsystems Inc JAVA.O Autodesk expects to take pre-tax charges of $65 million to$75 million related to the restructuring. It expects to takeabout $45 million to $50 million of those charges during thefourth quarter. The restructuring will also include consolidationof some of its facilities. The company said it may also take a fourth-quarter after-taxcharge of up to $125 million to reflect the declining value ofits entertainment business, which sells software used infilmmaking, handling tasks such as creation of special effects. That business unit accounted for 12 percent of the company'srevenue in fiscal 2008, while its design software business, whichmakes widely used AutoCAD design software, accounted for therest.

The company plans to announce its full fourth-quarter resultson Feb 26. Autodesk shares fell $2.33 to $15.40 in New York StockExchange trade. DUBLIN, Ireland(Business Wire)Research and Markets( http://) hasannounced the addition of the "The 2009 World Market Forecasts for ImportedEquine Meat" report to their offering. This report was created for strategic planners, international marketingexecutives and export managers whose primary concern is the world market forequine meat. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer becontented with a local view.

Nor can managers be contented with out-of-datestatistics that appear several years after the fact. I have developed amethodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market forequine meat for those firms serving the world via exports and foreign directinvestment. It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historicalindicators and econometric models. In what follows, this report begins by summarizing the world exporter's marketfor equine meat. The total level of exports on a worldwide basis is based on amodel that aggregates across over 150 key country markets and projects these tothe current year. From there, each country represents a percent of the worldmarket. These shares lead to a volume of importvalues for each country and are aggregated to regional and world totals.