A competitive operating environment where the ease of doing business is permanently evident is the unique selling point that Shannon Chamber is keen to project about the Shannon area in the coming year as the impact of Brexit manifests. This was the message delivered by the Chamber CEO Helen Downes when reflecting on achievements…
Investment will see employment levels more than double to 550 since implementation of 2009 restructuring plan Investment welcomed by Ministers Mary Mitchell O’Connor and Pat Breen SHANNON, IRELAND FRIDAY, JANUARY 27th 2017: Element Six, a world leader in synthetic diamond super-materials and member of The De Beers Group of Companies, has today announced the creation…
The Minister for Training & Skills, John Halligan TD, welcomed the latest figures on Government investment in research and development (R&D) published today by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. These figures are provided by Ireland to the CSO/Eurostat under Commission Regulation (EC) No. 995/2012. Survey data in ‘The Research and Development Budget…
Shannon Chamber joins with Ian Talbot, Chief Executive of Chambers Ireland in welcoming today’s announcement by Minister for Education Richard Bruton TD and Minister of State for Training and Skills John Halligan TD that the Government is to increase and expand apprenticeship and traineeship places by 2020 and allocate an extra €20 million in funding for delivery this…
Shannon Group plc has today (Wednesday, 25 January) announced it has lodged a planning application with Clare County Council for a new aircraft hangar at Shannon Airport. The proposed development will comprise a new steel framed wide-bodied aircraft paint hangar and internal ancillary office space, workshops, plant rooms and storage space within the airport…
Allocation will allow approx. 1980kms of road to be maintained (surface dressed) and 2035kms to be strengthened Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Shane Ross TD, today announced details of the €324 million investment programme for 2017 for regional and local roads. Speaking this afternoon, Minister Ross said: “I am announcing the 2017 grant…
At this years annual business report meeting, The Shannon Region Conference & Sports Bureau announced that in 2016 it supported business and sports events worth in excess of €7,000,000 to the economy of the region, a substantial slice of the national Business & Events Tourism pie. The Shannon Region moves confidently into 2017 with…
Pictured at the Mid-West Lean Network workshop in Zimmer Biomet Shannon (from left); Gene Leonard, LBS Partners, Gerard Grace, Zimmer Biomet, Neil Enright, Molex and network chairman, Claude Costello, Zimmer Biomet and Helen Downes, Shannon Chamber. Photo: Eamon Ward. The newly established Mid-West Lean Network, the brainchild of Shannon Chamber and now led by…
The European Investment Bank (EIB) today (24 January 2017) confirmed investment of €825 million in Ireland in 2016. Commenting on the announcement, Ian Talbot, Chief Executive Chambers Ireland said, “We welcome the significant level of investment in Ireland in 2016 and the ongoing support the EIB provides for crucial long-term infrastructure projects across the…
Shannon Chamber in tandem with Chambers Ireland welcomes the Action Plan for Rural Development launched today (23 January 2017) by An Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Heather Humphreys TD. Chambers Ireland chief executive Ian Talbot, commenting on the Action Plan said: “The ‘Realising our Rural Potential’…
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