This archive report was first published on 1 August 2019.
Published on August 1, 2019, Diageo, the parent company of East African Breweries (EABL), is set to retrench over 100 employees working at its business support centre in Nairobi.
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.
According to sources familiar with the matter, the layoffs will be concentrated in the human resource and finance desks, with the retrenchments to be done gradually and conclude in March next year.
Diageo said the changes will not affect the core functions of its local subsidiary EABL, but 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, with Stanbic Bank also drawing a plan to lay off up to 200 employees.
