Coca-cola plans move to hi-tech facility

ABOUT 1,000 Coca-Cola Bottlers employees in Dublin, Louth and Antrim were last night told by the company of its intention to consolidate production and warehouse operations at a greenfield site.

Workers, employed by the Coca-Cola Bottling Companies in Ireland Coca-Cola Bottlers Ireland (CCBI) and Coca-Cola Bottlers Ulster (CCBU), were told about plans for a multi-million euro manufacturing facility that will consolidate production from three separate locations in Dublin, Greenore and Lisburn.

The company refused to discuss job security issues and potential redundancies arising out of what the company described as "the opportunity for future investment in Ireland under a proposal to reorganise their supply chain processes."