Diageo may shed 200 jobs

UP to 200 of the 700 administrative workers employed by Diageo at their Guinness and United Distillers operations in Ireland may be made redundant in the coming days.

Guinness is conducting an intensive review of its Irish operations and workers expect to be told that job losses are to follow from the study as Diageo strives to trim payroll costs among it 2,300 Irish workforce.

The bulk of the redundancies are expected to come in Dublin where last year Diageo merged its brewing and distilling administrative divisions.