The Avon factory site once employed up to 1,200 people in Portarlington before closing in 2000. The cosmetics and jewellery factory was later demolished following a fire in the vacant building in 2014.
The site laid dormant for over 25 years before Laois County Council purchased 6 acres of the land last year for €500,000. Four sites are being created on the land which have all been sold to companies.
Local hardware business Fletchers purchased one of the sites along with a Derry based construction company, P McVey Building Systems, who bought two of the sites. The Dublin based company Priority Construction snapped up the last site in December 2025.
