AMGEN MOVE DELAYS CORK JOBS
Big implications for Jacobs, Fluor and PM
The Irish Times says US drug giant Amgen has pushed back by two years plans to build an €820m manufacturing plant in Co Cork, a move that delays the recruitment of more than 1,000 staff until 2012.
The paper says that while Amgen insists that the project will go ahead, the development is a setback for efforts to provide alternative employment in the Cork region to workers made redundant in a spate of cuts at big multinational employers such as Motorola and Pfizer.
The postponement of the Amgen project comes less than 15 months after IDA Ireland beat off competition from Switzerland and Singapore to secure the investment from the Californian group, the world’s biggest bio-pharmaceutical manufacturer.
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