Struggling mobile device vendor Sony Ericsson is to cut around 450 jobs at its site in Lund, Sweden, as part of its plan announced in April to reduce total global headcount by around 2,000 by mid-2010. Dow Jones Newswires adds that around 200 consultants will also leave the company, which will help the business reduce its headcount to 7,900 by the middle of next year.

Sony Ericsson – reeling from five straight quarterly losses – is targeting profitability in the next twelve months. It suffered a 42 percent year-on-year fall in Q3 net sales and, according to Strategy Analytics, the company’s share of the global handset market fell to 4.9 percent in the third quarter 2009 from 8.5 percent a year earlier. It is hoping that a range of new devices, including the recently launched Satio and its first Android phone, the Xperia X10, will boost sales.