Guinness to stay at scaled-down St James’s Gate

ST JAMES’S Gate is to remain the home of Guinness, despite losing half its site and one third of its production.

Guinness to stay at scaled-down St James’s Gate

However the black stuff will no longer be brewed in Kilkenny or Dundalk, with both of those facilities due to close in five years’ time.

Under a restructuring programme unveiled by parent company Diageo yesterday, a new brewery will be built “close to Dublin” in 2013 which will take over all production from Kilkenny and Dundalk, some duties from the Waterford plant and a third of the work carried out at St James’s Gate.

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