200 jobs to go at Nenagh beauty plant Coty

The beauty products manufacturer Coty, which has announced 200 job losses at its plant in Nenagh, Co Tipperary, may seek up to 1,000 redundancies from its global operations.

The company yesterday announced it is to close production lines at its plant in Nenagh and instead consolidate jobs at its plants in Kent in England and Hunt Valley in the US.

Tipperary TD Micheal Lowry described the decision as “a body blow” to the local economy, and said it was particularly hard to take as the jobs were going to Britain, given all the political rhetoric that Ireland would gain jobs as a result of Brexit, not lose them.