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Diageo, the leading alcoholic drinks firm, has been given the green light to proceed with the expansion of a facility in Northern Island that acts as a primary manufacturing site for the firm’s Baileys brand of cream liqueur.
According to reports in the Irish Times and Food Manufacture, the £26 million ($33 million) expansion of the firm’s Mallusk site in Country Antrim has now been approved by planning authorities, around a year after the company submitted its proposals. The expansion is primarily aimed at allowing the company to upgrade its logistics and warehousing facilities.
Commenting on the move, Lesley Allen, operations manager at Baileys Mallusk, said: “The extension will support the storage, delivery and distribution of raw materials and finished goods and we are looking forward to the opportunities it will create for us”.
“We are confident that the planned extension will support Diageo’s wider growth strategy, building on the £40m investment we made in opening the site in 2003 and the ongoing investments to further develop the facility and the Baileys brand”, she added.
Source: Irish Times / Food Manufacture
