Petfood company C&D Foods has announced that it is cutting 29 jobs at its Edgeworthstown plant in Co Longford. It has a total workforce there of 312.
The company said the 'unprecedented' and continuing weakness of sterling is a cause of major concern for its business as 90% if its entire manufactured product is exported to the UK.
It said that 20 jobs will be lost when production on one line stops at Easter with no immediate plans for it to restart. Automation in another section of the plant will be responsible for the shedding of another 29 jobs.
Last year the company announced that Irish Food Processors, owned by Larry Goodman, had bought a 50% stake in the business.
Meanwhile, almost 90 jobs are to be lost at the Nortel plant in Co Antrim. The redundancies are planned at the facility in Newtownabbey.
50 new jobs at Philips
Philips Ireland is creating 50 new jobs in its healthcare division. The new jobs will be in Dublin and Belfast as the firm expands its clinical software engineering capacity.
Philips has been operating in Ireland since 1929 and employs several hundred people in Ireland across three major sectors - consumer Lifestyle, lighting and healthcare.
'Despite the economic downturn and the perennial tightening of belts we see a bright future in the healthcare sector', Philips Director Larry Keaveney said.
