EABL plant at Ruaraka in Nairobi. Parent company Diageo plans to retrench more than 100 employees. FILE PHOTO | NMG
London-based brewer Diageo, the parent company of East African
Breweries (EABL), is set to retrench more than 100 employees working at
its business support centre in Nairobi, marking one of
the latest large-scale layoffs in corporate Kenya.
the latest large-scale layoffs in corporate Kenya.
The Diageo
Africa Business Service Centre (ABSC), the only shared service centre in
Africa and one of five globally, will be shutting down and its role
outsourced to other markets.
The unit runs back-office
processes required for Diageo’s finance, supply, human resources and
sales and marketing functions. “The business services requirements and
processes across Diageo Africa are changing and as such Diageo will be
conducting a review of the centre to determine where best to locate
technical services roles for Africa in either Europe or Asia,” the
multinational said in a statement.
Sources familiar
with the matter told Business Daily that more than 100 employees will
lose their jobs, with most of the layoffs concentrated in the human
resource and finance desks.
The retrenchments will be
done gradually and conclude in March next year. Diageo said the changes
will not affect the core functions of its local subsidiary EABL.
Diageo becomes the latest to announce major job cuts in corporate Kenya in the past one year.
More than 2,000 high-quality jobs have been lost in
retrenchments implemented by companies including Bamburi Cement,
Standard Chartered Bank (Kenya) and Britam. Stanbic Bank also recently
drew a plan to lay off up to 200 employees.
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