{"id":20473,"date":"2025-09-14T09:39:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T09:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/20473\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T09:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T09:39:06","slug":"global-healthcare-company-with-roscommon-plant-set-to-cut-9000-jobs-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/20473\/","title":{"rendered":"Global healthcare company with Roscommon plant set to cut 9,000 jobs &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Danish drugmaker, Novo Nordisk, which has a plant in Monksland, is to lay off 9,000 of its staff worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">5,000 of those redundancies are expected to come from its sites in Denmark as part of restructuring plans to save some $1.3 billion (\u00a3926 million) annually.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The global healthcare firm, which announced the job cuts this week, has around 78,400 staff worldwide and the redundancies will account for 11.5 percent of its workforce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The maker of weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy has seen its share price tumble over the past year amid increased competition in this market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Novo Nordisk employs about 400 at its plant in Monksland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Last year, Roscommon County Council sold just over eleven acres of land to the company for \u20ac1.55m to accommodate its expansion plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In 2023, the Danish firm purchased Alkermes\u2019 Monksland facility for $92.5m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danish drugmaker, Novo Nordisk, which has a plant in Monksland, is to lay off 9,000 of its staff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-20473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}