Gap, which is based in San Francisco, said it would cut its headquarters staff of 10,000 employees up to 7percentt.
Marriott cut its headquarters staff by nearly 1,000 employees in 1990 and was close to bankruptcy for much of the early 1990's.
"If you cut a headquarters office in western New York, and then there is a disaster there that has to be managed out of Detroit or New York City, there will be protests," Michael E. O'Hanlon, a military expert at the Brookings Institution, said.
He reduced the number of models and cut the headquarters staff in Auburn Hills, Mich .from 260 to 12. Later he focused on growth.
I've returned now to high unemployment, tube strikes, a riot by protesting students at Conservative party headquarters, and cuts, cuts, cuts that have not only students but generals, police chiefs, middle-class moms, actors and labor leaders protesting Cameron's balance-the-budget blitzkrieg against benefits, services and subsidies.
Poor results in Australia and the closure of its London headquarters cut profits for Cleanaway.
It also said 70 jobs would be cut at company headquarters in Hudson, Ohio, and at regional offices.
Ironically, there was a power cut at NUM headquarters just as the Electoral Reform Society was handing over the result of the ballot to Mr Joe Gormley, the union's president.
Relying for reconnaissance on the Wehrmacht's ubiquitous motorcycles, they fanned out in the enemy's rear, overran his headquarters, cut his communications, and brought about his collapse by virtue of confusion as much as anything else.
