Acxiom Cuts Wages, Gives Details on Shaky Quarter

Following on the heels of an earnings warning issued late Friday, Acxiom Corp. announced Tuesday that its employees had their base pay cut 5%, with an option to take a 20% pay cut and receive stock options. The move is part of a $70 million cutback on anticipated fiscal year 2002 expenditures, which will also include sales and marketing expense reductions.

The Little Rock, AR-based company also revised its estimate of the write-offs related to Montgomery Ward