The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
(46 - 47) Wholesale / Retail 47 - Retail trade 47.7 - Retail sale of other goods, except motor vehicles and motorcycles 47.71 - Retail sale of clothing
New offshoring locations
India
100 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
25 June 2025
Employment effect (start)
25 June 2025
Foreseen end date
Description
Clothing retail company Penneys – owned by Primark - is to cut 100 jobs at the company's head office in Dublin. The job losses are part of 150 redundancies at Primark which are impacting Ireland, the UK and America.
Penneys currently employs approximately 7,000 people in Ireland including 1,500 staff based at its international headquarters in Dublin.
The job losses are in HR, finance and procurement and are part of a plan to move support functions to a third party based in Mumbai.
Eurofound (2025), Primark, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Ireland, factsheet number 203049, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/203049.
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