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UP TO 35 JOBS are set to be lost at cider company Bulmers following an internal reorganisation, TheJournal.ie has learned.
The jobs will be lost due to a restructuring of Bulmers’ commercial team after its parent company, C&C Group, purchased the Gleesons Group, another drinks manufacturer based in Bulmers’ native Tipperary.
The €12.4 million purchase – which boosted C&C’s Irish workforce from over 200 to nearly 800 – will see Bulmers’ commercial team integrated with that of the Gleesons Group, which markets soft drinks including Finches, Country Spring, Cadet and Score, as well as Bavaria beer.
A spokesman for the C&C Group confirmed that the Bulmers commercial team, of over 70 people, would be transferred to Gleesons from June 28.
While the group said it could not confirm the number of redundancies as a result of the transfer – as it will first enter a period of consultation with the employees effected – it is believed that the final number will be just over 30.
“The integration is necessary to safeguard and protect as many jobs as possible in the enlarged group following the acquisition of Gleesons, which has more than trebled C&C’s workforce in Ireland,” the spokesman said.
The Bulmers staff involved in the arrangement were informed of the transfer on Wednesday.
The C&C Group spokesman said Bulmers’ Clonmel operation remained a “key manufacturing asset” of the group – and that speculation that the manufacturing base there could be closed was “absolutely not the case”.
The internal reorganisation affects only commercial staff, and does not involve any manufacturing staff from the Bulmers company.
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Question is why not one fish factory in Killybegs was fined for the stink of fish or all that dumping of bits of fish guts into the harbour that was left of the shore line for weeks and where sea gulls were covered in oil. Good on that judge.it is about time people spoke up for their local environment.
Can ya blame em, no one likes the smell of cocks, even chicks.
There was bound to be another way other than closing the plant down! Not really fair in my eyes
What else would it be smelling but fowl ?
It didn’t just smell foul it literally smelled like chicken shit on an industrial scale!
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