Winnipeg-based Palliser Furniture has restructured its executive leadership team, reducing it to four people from eight.

Company president and CEO Peter Tielmann announced the changes in an internal memo to employees on Wednesday.

“In addition to the ELT changes, layoffs were carried out today as a difficult but necessary step in aligning with the new organizational model,” Tielmann wrote in the memo, obtained by the Free Press .

“They will not only impact how we’ll operate our company moving forward but will be the catalyst to allow for further innovation and growth initiatives in product, sales and marketing.”

The individual performances of the employees who were let go did not affect the decision to lay them off, Tielmann added, noting all of them made “countless positive contribu

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