It has been a great start to the year with a number Enterprise Ireland supported client companies expanding, investing and creating jobs. Our Top Story already highlighted the news of Combilift creating employment for 400 of people in Monaghan and giving the North East region a great lift. Here are some more success stories of clients driving employment figures up and creating new opportunities for people on the green isle:
Richard Bruton, T.D., Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation with Lakeland Dairies Group Chief Executive, Michael Hanley, (centre), Chairman, Alo Duffy, (Right) and Michael Cantwell, Food Division Manager, Enterprise Ireland (left), turn the sod for a new €36M milk powder plant at Bailieboro, Co. Cavan.
Lakeland Dairies: 260 jobs for Co. Cavan
Lakeland Dairies Co-operative Society is beginning a €36m investment in an expansion of milk powder processing operations at Bailieboro, Co. Cavan that will create 81 new jobs over the next five years. Up to 180 construction jobs will also be created by contractors during the building, installation and commissioning phases for the new processing facilities.
The expansion is part of an investment supported by Department of Jobs through Enterprise Ireland.
Construction will start immediately and Minister Bruton earlier this week turned the first sod for the new development together with Alo Duffy, Chairman of Lakeland Dairies and Group Chief Executive, Michael Hanley. The event was also attended by the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys TD.
Ciaran Murray, ICON plc, pictured with Taoiseach Enda Kenny.
ICON: 200 jobs for Limerick and Dublin
ICON plc, a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries announced a new global innovation hub which will create 200 new jobs in Ireland. The hub will foster the development of new technologies and clinical trial processes that will enable faster access to large volumes of clinical data and will enable clinical trial personnel to derive better insights from the data.
Icon, which has its headquarters in Dublin, currently employs 10,300 people worldwide, including 1,000 people in Ireland. It operates 76 offices in 37 countries.
The 200 new jobs will include roles in IT, Data Analytics, Clinical Science, Project Management, Finance and Human Resources.
This project has been part-funded by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation through Enterprise Ireland.
Alan Coleman, CEO, Brite:Bill
Brite:Bill: 100 new Dublin jobs in major recruitment drive
Brite:Bill, the Dublin based billing communications platform provider announced the creation of 100 new jobs as part of a major recruitment drive. The new posts come on foot of recent major multi-million dollar contract wins in North America and will be based in its Headquarters in Dublin and in its North American offices.
Brite:Bill provides software tools enabling companies to improve their billing systems and personalise bills to clients. It currently employs around 60 people in Dublin and has offices in London, Madrid, Toronto, Shanghai and San Francisco.
The company is looking to hire a mix of specialised talent across all areas of the business with an immediate requirement for software developers, system architects and project managers. The 100 new recruits will be hired over the next two years with half coming on board in 2015.
Brite:Bill has been supported in its growth and development by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation through Enterprise Ireland.
Pictured (L-R) are: Sinead Heaney, Managing Director of The BDO Development Capital Fund, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton TD, Julie Sinnamon, CEO of Enterprise Ireland and Lifes2Good Founder James Murphy.
Lifes2good: 50 jobs in Galway company following €5 million investment
Lifes2good is to create 50 jobs in Galway over the next three years after receiving a €5m investment from the BDO Development Capital Fund, a €75m fund created last year by Minister Richard Bruton.
The BDO Development Capital Fund is supported by the Department of Jobs through Enterprise Ireland, as part of the Development Capital Scheme. The Fund provides development and growth capital for established, mid-sized and profitable companies to assist them to achieve and accelerate their export-led growth plans.
The Lifes2Good Group was founded in 1997 by James Murphy and is an international, sales, marketing and distribution Group of category leading and clinically proven healthcare brands in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Asia.
The investment will enable Lifes2good further international expansion and will lead to the creation of 50 additional high skilled jobs in its Global Headquarters in Galway and across the group over the next three years.
