More Than 100 EABL Staff Face Layoffs

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.

In a statement, the Diageo Africa Business Service Centre (ABSC) announced its plans to shut down and its role outsourced to other markets. “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,” read the statement.

The retrenchments with which most will be concentrated in the human resource and finance desks will be done gradually and conclude in March next year. However, the firm said the changes will not affect the core functions of its local subsidiary EABL.

In the past one year alone, more than 2,000 high-quality jobs in Kenya have been lost in retrenchments implemented by companies including Bamburi Cement, Standard Chartered Bank (Kenya) and Britam. Telkom Kenya on Wednesday announced plans to layoff 575 emplyees amid the planned merger with Airtel. Stanbic Bank had also in the recent past drew a plan to lay off up to 200 employees.