The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10 - Manufacture of food products
270 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
11 August 2004
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 October 2004
Description
Dairygold, the Irish Republic's biggest dairy co-operative, is to make 270 people redundant at two of its plants in Cork and Tipperary. It also warned that further job cuts may be necessary if radical restructuring to cut costs is not successful. The job losses will occur at the pig slaughterhouse and boning plant in Mitchelstown and slaughterhouse in Roscrea. The company said the move was part of an ongoing rationalisation programme aimed at returning it to profit. Some 170 jobs will be lost at Mitchelstown when the plant closes at the end of October, and 100 jobs will go in Roscrea when the slaughterhouse closes in September.
Sources
12 August 2004: The Irish Independent
12 August 2004: The Irish Times
Citation
Eurofound (2004), Dairygold, Closure in Ireland, factsheet number 60489, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60489.
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