Major group-wide capital programme underway and greater cost efficiencies required Balanced Regional Development must be a national priority to address current imbalances – Chairman Shannon Group plc, which includes Shannon Airport, Shannon Commercial Properties and Shannon Heritage, in its first full year of trading recorded total turnover of €65.6m in 2015 with post-tax profits of…
Martin Noonan strengthens international expertise of growing team. Leading business consultancy firm, member company of Shannon Chamber, LBSPartners, announced today that Martin Noonan has joined the company in a move to further expand its expert panel of consultants offering exceptional business improvement advice. Martin brings a wealth of experience from more than 25 years working…
CSO data released this week shows that the number of overseas visits to Ireland between January – March 2016 increased by 16.6% compared to the corresponding period in 2015. Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport, Paschal Donohoe TD, welcomed the positive data saying: ‘Today’s data for the first quarter of 2016 shows continued…
The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise, and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD and the Minister for Business and Employment, Ged Nash today published the report of the two experts appointed to examine and review employee protection legislation in the context of ensuring that limited liability or restructuring are not used to avoid a company’s obligations to its…
Shannon Airport is today delighted to announce that it will be main sponsor for the world’s largest Irish traditional music festival – Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann Inis 2016. In what will be the biggest ‘homecoming’ of 2016, some 400,000, including thousands from abroad, will gather as traditional Irish music, song and dance returns to Clare. The…
Helen Downes, chief executive, Shannon Chamber (centre) pictured with Fiona Fennell, director, CREGG Recruitment and Sinéad Mullins, industrial relations and human resources executive, IBEC, at the breakfast seminar in Zimmer Biomet. Photo: Eamon Ward. An increasing number of companies are looking towards a contingency workforce model as a means of managing their talent flow and…
FINAL CALL FOR APPLICATIONS for Chambers Ireland’s 2016 CSR Awards, which recognise the positive work done by the business community for the benefit of their employees, the local community and the environment are now open. Speaking after their launch in Dublin today (10 March 2016) Shannon Chamber’s chief executive Helen Downes encouraged members to…
Shannon Chamber has linked up with Fáilte Ireland to give an overview of achievements to date and new initiatives planned for Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way. The presentation will be given at a breakfast briefing in the Viewing Gallery at Shannon Airport on Thursday, 5 May 2016 from 7.30am to 9.30 am. Guest speakers will include…
Pictured in Insomnia are Pat Kelly, manager, SkyCourt Shopping Centre, Louise Tsang, manager, SASH Ladies’ Fashions, and model Jessica O’Neill previewing some of the fashion that will be shown at the Coffee and Style day in SkyCourt on April 28. Photo: Eamon Ward. Dullness has been the order of the past few months with…
Shannon Chamber is delighted to announce that Limerick Institute of Technology is now accepting applications for its New Frontiers programme. New Frontiers is Ireland’s national entrepreneur development programme, delivered by Institutes of Technology and funded by Enterprise Ireland. aimed at assisting entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas with setting up and running their own companies. A…
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