This investment will create an extra 25 jobs in the area over the next three years and give a boost to local economy.
Speaking to the Irish Farmers Journal, Councillor Michael Smyth (Fine Gael) said: “The investment is very welcome. The northwest of the country needs this type of investment. It will help retain people in our rural communities. At the minute, we are facing depopulation in Mayo.”
“Castlebar and Ballina are two major towns here and are the most under pressure at the minute. This move will make people interested in Mayo again and less likely to move away,” he added.
Taoiseach and local TD Enda Kenny commented: “Coca-Cola have been an important element of the local economy and significant employer in Mayo since 2000 and across Ireland for over six decades. Today’s announcement is a further vote of confidence in the western region by a major multinational company.”
Targeting a European market
Ballina Beverages will make Coca-Cola Freestyle fountains, a touch-screen machine that features over 165 different Coca Cola beverage flavours. Forty-thousand of these machines have been made in the US since their first introduction in 2010. The team in Ballina will be making these machines to target a European market.
Coca-Cola first arrived in Northern Ireland in 1934 and in the Republic of Ireland in 1952. It now employs 1,700 people in Antrim, Dublin, Kildare, Louth, Mayo and Wexford.
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This investment will create an extra 25 jobs in the area over the next three years and give a boost to local economy.
Speaking to the Irish Farmers Journal, Councillor Michael Smyth (Fine Gael) said: “The investment is very welcome. The northwest of the country needs this type of investment. It will help retain people in our rural communities. At the minute, we are facing depopulation in Mayo.”
“Castlebar and Ballina are two major towns here and are the most under pressure at the minute. This move will make people interested in Mayo again and less likely to move away,” he added.
Taoiseach and local TD Enda Kenny commented: “Coca-Cola have been an important element of the local economy and significant employer in Mayo since 2000 and across Ireland for over six decades. Today’s announcement is a further vote of confidence in the western region by a major multinational company.”
Targeting a European market
Ballina Beverages will make Coca-Cola Freestyle fountains, a touch-screen machine that features over 165 different Coca Cola beverage flavours. Forty-thousand of these machines have been made in the US since their first introduction in 2010. The team in Ballina will be making these machines to target a European market.
Coca-Cola first arrived in Northern Ireland in 1934 and in the Republic of Ireland in 1952. It now employs 1,700 people in Antrim, Dublin, Kildare, Louth, Mayo and Wexford.
Read more
The latest agri jobs available around the country
Dale Farm creates 60 new jobs
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