Leprino Cheese says it will cease manfacturing operations.
A cheese production facility in Laois will be closing down next year leading to the potential loss of up to 100 jobs.
Leprino Cheese says it will cease manfacturing operations in their Portlaoise plant in the second half of 2026 but will accept applications to re-deploy staff, and will offer enhanced redundancy packages and career transition assistance.
The company says the decision follows a comprehensive evaluation of all possible options to improve the financial and operational performance of the Portlaoise site.
Production will now move to to other Leprino Europe facilities in Northern Ireland and Wales.
Laois TD Sean Fleming says it's a regrettable situation:
The CEO of a Laois business organisation feels Government will need to move quickly to invest more in enterprise for the county.
The company is offering enhanced supports to help employees such as redundancy packages and help with re-deployment to other Leprino factories in Northern Ireland and Wales.
Jackie Carroll, CEO of Laois Chamber Alliance says it's important the impact of job losses is minimised:
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