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Diageo bosses defend job losses

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Diageo has defended its proposal to close the Johnnie Walker bottling plant in Kilmarnock and Port Dundas distillery in Glasgow, with the loss of 900 jobs. The whisky giant says it will save £20m per year, while it invests £100m in modern equipment in Fife and Clackmannanshire.

In an interview for BBC Scotland, Andrew Morgan, president of Diageo Europe, accepted that generations of employee loyalty in Kilmarnock families was not being easily cast aside.

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