Bulmers facing redundancies
The C&C Group’s purchase of The Gleeson Group is to result in “a number of redundancies” among Bulmers commercial team but the company has described reports that it would be moving its Clonmel plant to the Tennents Lager brewery in Glasgow’s Wellpark to produce the Bulmers and Magners cider brands as “without foundation”.
Print5 June 2013
A spokesman for C&C explained, “C&C is committed to its manufacturing site in Clonmel and views it as a key manufacturing site,” stated a spokesman for C&C, “This will remain the case into the future although naturally the Group will continue to make commercial decisions which may or may not impact the Clonmel site into the future”.
The redundancies are the result of the ongoing integration of Bulmers sales staff with those at the Gleeson Group which C&C acquired last March for €58 million.
The Gleeson Group acquisition quadrupled the workforce at C&C Ireland from 200 to 800.
Bulmers employs around 70 sales and marekting staff here with about a third of these based at Clonmel, the rest either regionally or in Dublin. Some of Bulmers employees will transfer to the Gleeson operation by June 28th but C&C has admitted that “There will be a number of redundancies as a result of this transfer”.
No numbers were given as the affected employers are currently in consultation with C&C. It is only after this period that the Group can confirm the number of actual redundancies.
According to a report in the Irish Times, “up to 40 staff from the Bulmers commercial team may be made redundant. It is expected that most of the sought-after redundancies will be on a voluntary basis”.
C&C Group: reports that the Clonmel plant will be moved to Glasgow are “without foundation”.
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