WIDESPREAD interest is expected in the sale of a stunning Cork harbour waterfront site now fully vacated by Pfizer.

Pfizer is to let 180 workers go at its two Cork plants in Little Island and Ringaskiddy, with staff to be briefed on the job losses later this week.

MORE than 100 jobs could be created in Cork over the next five years after BioMarin Pharmaceutical confirmed it is to buy the Pfizer manufacturing facility in Shanbally.

Pfizer has confirmed its plant in Shanbally, Co Cork is to close in August with the loss of 75 full-time jobs if they are unable to find a buyer for the facility in the intervening months.

Pfizer have been unable to find a buyer for the Loughbeg and Shanbally facilities in Cork in the last 10 months — meaning the jobs of the 300 workers at the two plants are still in jeopardy.

AMGEN is to purchase Pfizer’s Dun Laoghaire manufacturing facility in a deal that could save 240 jobs.

PHARMACEUTICAL giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is to axe 121 jobs – almost a quarter of its workforce – from its plant in Currabinny, Co Cork.

THE Schering-Plough crisis is just the latest in a growing series of job losses and “restructuring” moves involving Cork and Munster-based companies which have turned the region into one of the worst unemployment blackspots in the country.

SERIOUS concerns about hip implant parts which are the subject of a worldwide recall by their manufacturer, DePuy Orthopaedics, have persisted for a number of years, with critics claiming there is a design flaw in the products.

The Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation is to meet with multinationals operating in Ireland - to determine if any firms are facing problems.

The Minister for Enterprise Batt O'Keeffe has asked IDA Ireland to look for companies interested in taking over three Pfizer plants earmarked for closure.

AS almost 800 of Ireland’s 5,000 Pfizer employees contemplate being forced on to the dole queue, the company’s head of Irish operations has warned Ireland cannot continue to be the most expensive environment in which the pharmaceutical company is operating.

WHEN Pfizer began construction of its first plant in Ringaskiddy in 1969, there was a hope that the facility producing citric acid and gluconate products would be the first of many which would ultimately make Cork and Ireland a global giant in the pharmaceutical trade.

PFIZER has admitted it faces a tough task to sell off the three plants which it yesterday announced it was closing with a combined loss of more than 500 jobs.

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer was one of the success stories of the Celtic Tiger economy, especially with the development of the wonder drug Viagra.

The scale of the Pfizer jobs cuts sent shock waves around the world as 6,000 jobs were axed with the firm aiming to restructure its global network.

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer today announced plans to shut down three of its Irish facilities and reduce operations at a fourth, with the loss of 785 jobs.

Drugmaker Pfizer has raised its earnings forecast and said profit fell less than analysts expected.

A Portuguese drug firm is to create up to 80 new jobs in Co Cork over the next two years, it emerged today.

PFIZER said it was too early to say what impact its merger with Wyeth would have in Ireland or if there would be any job cuts here.

UP to 150 jobs are to be shed after the world’s largest pharmaceutical company announced it is to sell off one of its plants.

More than 150 jobs are to be lost at leading pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, it was confirmed today.

A high-tech medical company is set to announce the creation of more than 100 jobs for Cork next week.

Some 180 jobs are to be lost at leading pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, it was announced today.

Almost 500 jobs are reported to be on the line in Cork due to problems with the sale of a Pfizer plant in the city.

JAPANESE-based researchers with Pfizer faced a similar threat to their jobs that their Irish counterparts do now, when the company decided last year to close their lab.

PHARMACEUTICAL giant Pfizer said yesterday that it is very hopeful of being able to sell off two of its Cork plants, with the result of little or no job losses among 480 staff.

PHARMACEUTICAL giant Pfizer is to seek planning permission for a €175 million facility in Cork.

EXPANDING small and medium-sized companies have been saluted for their contribution to a record commercial rates’ total in Cork county last year.

A meeting is being sought with the Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment Micheal Martin by one of the unions representing workers at Pfizer's three plants in Cork.

HOME to the haves and the have-yachts, Currabinny in Cork Harbour is an area where house prices are elevated and sales are rare.

Union leaders are to meet with Pfizer management in Cork on Monday to discuss job losses at the company.

IT had been coming since December, but when it arrived it was still a shock.

FAILURE to get approval for a blockbuster drug expected to reap billions is the main factor behind the loss of up to 545 jobs at Pfizer in Cork.

LIKE global warming, the repercussions of global corporate decisions can be devastating.

A multi-million euro buyout plan looks likely to save hundreds of jobs under threat from the closure of two Pfizer pharmaceutical plants, it emerged tonight.

Hundreds of jobs are hanging in the balance at Pfizer's plants in Cork today as a result of a major restructuring programme.

JOBS at Pfizer’s newest manufacturing plant in Ireland could be lost after the decision by the world’s largest pharmaceutical company to halt production of its most important experimental drug.

DRUG giant Pfizer opened its new €75 million manufacturing facility in Loughbeg near Ringaskiddy yesterday.

A heart drug which will be used in tests on 25,000 people worldwide has gone into production at a Cork pharmaceutical plant.

PFIZER has spent $90 million (€71.7m) building a plant in Cork which may never enter commercial production.

PFIZER Inc’s 1,800 plus Irish workers are bracing themselves for possible job losses, when the company announces global cost cutting measures next week, which could result in the loss of 10,000 posts worldwide.

Pfizer is set to create 200 new jobs with a €250 million expansion of its sterile manufacturing facility in Dublin.