US - Industrial firm Blount International is set to freeze its defined benefit pension plan effective January 1, 2007 in a bid to save the company up to $23m in the next five years.
As of next year, employees currently participating in the plan would cease accruing benefits, while all retirement benefits earned up to that time would be fully preserved, said James Osterman, cha...
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