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DAA seeking to cut up to 1,000 jobs

Business Post - 20.05.2020

DAA, the state company responsible for Cork and Dublin airports, is seeking to cut up to 1,000 jobs as the airports struggle with a collapse in passenger numbers due to Covid-19. Dalton Philips, Chief Executive of DAA, said with passenger numbers down by 99 per cent, the outlook for the rest of the year looked "bleak", and it only expected to have a throughput of 21 million passengers next year. He also said it could be "several years" before passenger traffic was back at 2019 levels when a total of 35.5 million travelled through the airports.

Henderson to axe up to 115 jobs after Covid-19 decimates Irish foodservice sector

The Irish Times - 21.05.2020

The foodservice wing of supermarket giant Henderson is to centralise the operations of two recently acquired companies, putting up to 115 jobs at risk. The Co Antrim group, which operates the Spar and Vivo franchise in the north, said the ongoing coronavirus crisis has severely curtailed its foodservice business. Monaghan based BD Foods (Barbarrie Duckling Limited) was acquired by Henderson Foodservice in July 2018. Foodco, which operates a fleet of multi-temperature vehicles across the whole of Ireland, has bases in Lisburn and Ashbourne, Co Meath. It was acquired in February 2019. All three locations are earmarked for closure at the end of July, with all services centralised in Henderson’s main base in Mallusk.