Dublin, Feb 10 - Food group Glanbia is planning to cut 210 jobs in Ireland as a part of a previously announced 16 million-euro cost reduction programme, it said on Tuesday.
The 210 jobs include 50 redundancies in Dublin, flagged last month, and 40 in the south of Ireland announced last year, a spokeswoman said. "It's a cumulative figure," she said.
Glanbia, which describes itself as Europe's biggest supplier of mozzarella cheese for pizzas, has also put in place a ban on recruitment, halted non-essential capital expenditure and cut salaries of board members and Managing Director John Moloney, she said.
Jobless claims in Ireland hit a record high in January as a deepening recession spread from construction across the economy after the sudden end of its "Celtic Tiger" boom.
A series of companies that played a central role in the boom have already announced redundancies this year, including Dell, the world's No. 2 PC maker and Swedish telecoms equipment maker Ericsson, while tableware maker Waterford Wedgwood called in receivers in January.
Bank and insurance group Irish Life & Permanent said on Monday it would cancel bonuses for 160 senior managers and keep all managers' pay at 2008 levels this year due to the recession.