EABL Employees: Over 100 employees at the East African Breweries (EABL) are set to lose their jobs. This follows an announcement that the beer maker will retrench more than 100 employees working at its business support centre in Nairobi.
This move will mark one of 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,” says a report that appeared in the Business Daily on Thursday.
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“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.
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.
