New York-based Avon Products said about 200...

New York-based Avon Products said about 200 positions will be eliminated by the end of June from its administrative staff of 2,100. The company said the streamlining will result in a decentralizing and flattening of the organization. Avon has 35,000 employees worldwide. The changes will move decision-making closer to the consumer, shorten lines of communication and increase organizational effectiveness, said Hicks Waldron, Avon’s chairman and chief executive.