TEKELEK PARTNERS WITH PAYGO ON SMART-TANK TECHNOLOGIES FOR INTELLIGENT MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT OF FUEL INVENTORIES AND PROCUREMENT

New opportunities exist for both firms as IoT enables more informed, timely decision-making on when to purchase, hedge on industrial fuel. TORONTO, May 31, 2017 — Enterprise Ireland, the Irish government agency for the promotion of international trade by Irish companies, today announced a partnership between electronic monitoring based Tekelek and fuel technology based Paygo…

Regional Enterprise Development Fund 2017-2020

Overview of the Regional Enterprise Development Fund In February 2015, as part of an overarching strategy to support regional enterprise development, the Government announced a Regional Competitive Fund with the objective of supporting significant regional initiatives to build on sectoral strengths and/or to better leverage identified resources to improve enterprise capability.  This is in line…

Dyslexia Can be Positive for Business…Shannon Chamber Seminar hears

Dyslexia Can be Positive for Business…Shannon Chamber Seminar hears

  Pictured at the Dyslexia seminar (from left): Michelle Kinsella, Dyslexia Association of Ireland; Helen Downes, CEO, Shannon Chamber; Connor Flanagan, CEO, Atlantic Aviation Group; and Helen McQuillan, EmployAbility Clare. Photo: Eamon Ward.   Fear of discrimination and lack of understanding from the employer or fear of negative response or misunderstanding from colleagues can often prevent…

Irish SMEs to benefit from access to top academic research

Skillnets and Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) will host a conference at the DIT Aungier Street Campus tomorrow (May 30) where new academic research on management will be presented to key stakeholders from the SME sector. The research could have a valuable impact for business and improve their bottom line when applied in the right…

Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Act 2017 comes into force and now extends to SMEs

Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Mary Mitchell O’Connor has announced the commencement of an Act for a certification scheme aimed at inventions developed by SMEs.  The scheme comes within the Knowledge Development Box initiative announced in the Finance Act, 2015. Announcing the scheme the Minister said “this is a good day for innovative SMEs…

Results of 2016 Global Talent Management and Rewards Study to be Presented at Shannon Chamber Seminar

A global workforce, a virtual workplace, contingent workers and the expectations of millennials are forcing employers to take a more modern, agile approach to the development of the employee value proposition, but, do employers have what it takes to deliver? That’s the question Shannon Chamber will encourage companies in the region to ask when the…

Lean Principles Have Steered Takumi Precision Engineering in a New Direction

Lean Principles Have Steered Takumi Precision Engineering in a New Direction

Pictured at the Mid-West Lean Network workshop in Takumi Precision Engineering (from left):Donal Galligan, operations manager, Colm Diggins, materials manager, Shane McMahon, engineering manager, Kevin McCarthy, manufacturing engineer and Gerry Reynolds, managing director, Takumi; Neil Enright, Molex and Mid-West Lean Network chair; Robert Hernan, Enterprise Ireland; Gene Leonard, LBS Partners; and Mike O’Neill, facilities manager, Takumi. …

Shannon Chamber to Represent Mid-West Chambers in Chambers Ireland Pre Budget 2018 Submission

Chambers Ireland is currently in the process of drafting its Pre Budget 2018 Submission in consultation with the Chamber Network.   In order to engage with the Network on this submission, Chambers Ireland invited eight regional representatives to sit on this group along with members of the PA Forum in order to discuss and formulate the…

Bank of Ireland Runway Night Run at Shannon Airport on track for June 16th

Bank of Ireland Runway Night Run at Shannon Airport on track for June 16th

Ireland’s favourite and first mass participation event at an airport, the Bank of Ireland Runway Night Run, at Shannon is set for take-off again this year, with Friday June 16th announced as the date for the hugely popular event. An estimated 2,000 participants of all grades and ages will gather for the fourth annual event…