Japan Tobacco to create £5m trust for jobs in Ballymena
JTI’s Gallaher tobacco plant in the town will close by end of May 2017 with loss of up to 800 jobs
Stubbing out of 900 jobs will signal end of era for tobacco manufacturing in Ireland
Closure of Gallahers would mean there is not a single tobacco manufacturing plant on these islands
Ballymena cigarette plant to close with 1,000 job losses
Cigarette plant scheduled to close in 2017 in major restructuring of company’s European operations
1,000 job losses at Ballymena tobacco factory
Japan Tobacco plans to move all operations to Poland and Romania
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