When
times are tough, companies have to take tough decisions and non-performers have
to be weeded out.
On
Tuesday Joel Ewanick, the global marketing head of General Motors
Company(NYSE:GM) was given the marching orders for not performing up to
expectations. Now game maker Zynga Inc’s (NASDAQ:ZNGA) Chief Operating Officer John
Schappert, has been stripped of his role overseeing game development, Bloomberg
reported on Wednesday, quoting people familiar with the matter.
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The
report said that the decision was taken as part of a reorganisation strategy to
revive growth and make more money from mobile services.
David
Ko, who runs Zynga’s mobile operations, and Steve Chiang, executive vice
president of games, both of whom reported to Schappert, now report directly to
Chief Executive Officer Mark Pincus, Bloomberg said.
The
report said that CEO Pincus had started on the organisation revamp in early
July, at the close of a quarter marked by slowing sales growth and a drop in
demand for virtual goods.
Last
week Zynga reported a net loss of $22.8 million, or 3 cents a share, compared
with a profit of $1.4 million a year ago, missing analyst forecasts. It also
pegged its earnings in 2012 between 4 and 9 cents a share, down from the 23 to
29 cents previously forecast.
Schappert
who was lured from rival Electronic Arts Inc. with a pay package worth $42.8
million, has lost support within the company and taken some of the blame for
its underperformance, Bloomberg said.
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“The
place is in utter meltdown mode,” Bloomberg quoted Richard Greenfield, an
analyst at BTIG LLC in New York, as saying in an interview.
Stephanie
Hess, a spokeswoman for San Francisco-based Zynga, declined to comment, said
the report.
Shares
of Zynga were trading down 4.4 percent at $2.82 in morning trades and made
another record low of $2.75.
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