Daktronics Pulls Plug In Ireland w/ 100 Job Losses
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Daktronics will close its manufacturing facility in Ennistymon, in north County Clare, Ireland, a decision the company said will result in the loss of more than 100 jobs, according to DailyDOOH, which reported the announcement.
The report said it understood that the closure followed Daktronics's decision to exit the part of its business serving rail, bus and roadway customers outside North America — a link presented as the outlet's understanding rather than a rationale the company had formally confirmed.
Daktronics President and CEO Ramesh Jayaraman, speaking to the publication, said exiting Ireland and aligning manufacturing capacity would help the company manage factory utilisation across the network more effectively, improve workforce productivity, set the stage for further automation and streamline procurement initiatives.
The announcement came on Wednesday. It followed the company confirming at the start of September that it was entering a collective redundancy consultation, having first told employees that their positions were at risk.
In a statement, Daktronics said leaving Ireland was expected to result in $13.5 million (€12 million) of cumulative pretax charges, comprising employee-related costs, facility wind-down and equipment-transfer costs, and potential asset impairments.
The company said that once fully implemented, the closure should generate $7.7 million in annualised pretax savings, which it said would fully offset the associated implementation costs in less than two years while contributing to the company's broader structural cost reduction and margin improvement objectives. Daktronics expects the closure to be substantially complete by the middle of 2028. Both the savings figure and the completion date are company projections rather than reported outcomes.