Recent IDA Announcements on Inward Investment
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IDA Ireland, Ireland’s inward investment promotion agency, has recently announced a number of significant technology investments into Ireland:
- MFG.com to establish EMEA Operations Centre in Drogheda: MFG.com is the largest online sourcing marketplace in the world. Commenting on the decision to locate in Ireland, Steffan Bachmann, General Manager, Europe, said that “Drogheda was a natural choice for our EMEA expansion, given the flexible, highly qualified workforce and the increasingly competitive, pro-business environment.”
- Space Firm AMPAC-ISP launches European headquarters in Dublin: rocket engines will be developed and built at the new AC-ISP space technology development and manufacturing centre in Dublin. Launching the headquarters, Mr O’Keefe, the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, said it would be a 'space technology development centre of excellence'.
- ENERCON establishes technical services operations in Kerry: the announcement by ENERCON, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of wind turbines, will see the company create an Irish headquarters in order to service Ireland and the UK.
- Web Localisation Company to establish European Headquarters in Kerry: Straker has developed a technology and services platform that massively simplifies the process of web localisation, and is an emerging leader in this area. David Sowerby, Director, Straker Europe, said, ‘we looked at a number of options for our European headquarters, but with Ireland widely recognized as the centre for Localisation globally it was one of the first locations we considered.”
Click here to download details of IDA Ireland investment and job announcements of the year to date. This shows that, despite the deep recession, Ireland reamins a favoured location for foreign companies looking to establish a European headquarters.
