Mullingar contains several industrial estates including Lough Sheever Corperate Park and the Lynn Industrial estate. Two of the towns major manufacturing plants - [[Penn]] tennis balls and Tarket - both closed in the early 2000's causing many job losses. However newer industries have absorbed the job losses - including [[P.E.M. Engineering]] [http://www.pem.ie/], [[Trend Technologies]] [http://www.trendtechnologies.com/], [[Taconic International Ltd]] [http://www.4taconic.com/], and [[Mullingar Pewter [[http://www.mullingarpewter.com/]] which are bothall sizeable operations. The town is also home to a [[Van Nelle|Van Nelle (Ireland)]] tobacoo factory which has provided employment for many years and [[Iralco]] - an automotive component manufacture is located near the town. The town recently lost out when a major retailer [[Lidl]] decided not to locate its national distribution center in the town. There is currently talk of building an [[IDA Ireland|IDA]] Business Park in the town.
