Employees in the Cook Street Specsavers recently receive the prestigious FÁS Excellence Through People Gold Standard Award.

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The South Cork Enterpise Board this week honoured seven local IT Companies with Business Development Certificates for taking part in an eight month long IT Business Development Programme which finished last month.

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Weddings can prove to be an expensive business, especially if you don't have the right contacts and it comes as no surprise that more and more brides and grooms are beginning to look at ways of cutting costs for their big day without having to comp

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Few could claim to be as dedicated to and knowledgeable of the hotel industry as Michéal Stapleton, General Manager at the Radisson SAS Hotel and Spa, Cork.

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Deloitte recently announced that it is to create 30 graduate positions for the coming year in its Cork and Limerick offices.

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Cork Chamber, in partnership with BT Ireland, is currently seeking nominations for Cork Company of the Year. This year, there are three Award categories - Cork Company of the Year, Cork SME of the Year and Emerging Cork Company of the Year.

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In a urHired.ie survey of 100 employers carried out by Focus One, 54% of employers said they noticed a significant increase in the number of CVs being sent to them in the first half of 2008 compared with the same period in 2007.

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The North Cork Enterprise Board this week launched its Schools Enterprise Programme for 2008 / 2009 at a function in Longueville House Mallow.

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Small and medium sized companies in the City and County should urgently examine if they are entitled to supports which are currently available from Enterprise Ireland, according to Fianna Fáil TD and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Miche&aacut

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A Cork company who manufacture jam have won three prestigious gold's at The Great Taste Awards, often dubbed the Oscars of the Food Industry.

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Education, education, education. It may have been Tony Blair's mantra but it could equally apply to West Cork man Ray O'Donovan.

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Ireland has undergone many dramatic changes over the past two decades, not least the upswing in our economic fortunes. In recent years another rather drastic change has also become increasingly evident, albeit one that is far less welcome – it

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Guinness, sponsors of Irish Rugby, have announced a new partnership with European Cup champions Munster, as well as the soon to be re-opened Thomond Park.

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FBD Insurance have officially launched its interactive next generation website aimed at ‘putting customers in the driving seat’ when it comes to purchasing car insurance online.

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With the deadline for the Revenue's Voluntary Disclosure Initiative approaching on September 15, individuals and companies alike have just over two weeks to disclose funds invested in Deposit Accounts which have not been declared for tax purposes.

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Hays Specialist Recruitment, which has offices in Cork and Dublin, have launched a new division to cater for the rise in employment needs by the energy industry.

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The Cork Business Association along with main sponsor Heineken Ireland announced this past week that their prestigious Merit Award is going to the Royal Cork Yacht Club.

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The winner of the Yakult Healthy Workplace Awards 2008 has been awarded to Arup Consulting Engineers, which has offices in Cork.

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Ellenora Lynch has joined BiznetCork Skillnet as Network Manager, with overall responsibility for the management and coordination for the BiznetCork Skillnet.

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Before radio jingles, corporate branding, television ad campaigns and viral marketing a persons product was only as good as their last customers word. In effect this 'word of mouth' was the first ever form of marketing and advertising.

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Empower Ltd, the Irish owned performance management solutions company, headed up by Raomal Perera, has delivered a bespoke Strategic Human Resources solution to Cork-based Webprint, one of Ireland’s largest independent printers. 

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The next Leadership Management Ireland (LMI) Effective Personal Productivity programme will commence in Cork on Thursday, September 18.  It will take place in LMI’s Offices at the Airport East Business & Technology Park, Cork and will

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Elaine Ryan of Elaine Ryan & Associates is a business coach and human resources consultant operating mainly in the Munster region. With many businesses now facing their most challenging period for some time Elaine says that now, more than ever it

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The Irish Small & Medium Enterprises Association (ISME), despite the reduction in inflation announced this week, have hit out at the Government for an apparent lack of leadership in its failure to address the current cost environment.

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The Construction Industry Federation (CIF) will hold of number of seminars in Cork over the coming weeks to advise local contracting firms on how to best place themselves to win public sector building contracts.

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These days more and more people are looking for increased space in their homes, whether that be so as to accommodate children who either won't go away or keep coming back, grandparents who need to be close, or home offices that demand a separate ar

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Supermarket retailers have been accused of grossly overcharging consumers while underpaying farmers after the results of a recent survey was made public this week.

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Guinness have had many slogans down through the years – 'Guinness Gives You Strength', 'My Goodness, My Guinness' and 'Pure Genius' all immediately spring to mind – but 'Good Things Come To Those Who Wait' has proven to be one of their most endurin

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BT are to switch on the full capability of its own next generation network in a radical move that could bring broadband speeds of up to 24Mb to consumers and businesses in Ballincollig and Douglas.

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The Commissions Annual Report has shown that 2007 had the lowest industrial relations dispute figures on record, with just 6,000 days (6 disputes) recorded.

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The Annual Report of the Labour Relations Commission (LRC) was launched in Cork this week by the Minister of State with responsibility for Labour Affairs and Cork TS, Billy Kelleher.

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University College Cork are to host the Agricultural Biotechnology International Conference 2008 from Sunday, August 24 through to Wednesday, August 27.

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Three teams from UCC's master's course in Business Information Systems recently presented new software which has the potential to change emergency units, sudden cardiac death levels and bed sore management.

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Schools partaking in the annual BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition have received close to €120,000, with €26,900 of that going to schools in Cork city and county, as part of the Travel and Accommodation Grant Scheme, the telec

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Cork exporters have been praised for the successful figures which saw a seven per cent increase in national exports for April to May this year.

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It's been a long journey for John J Sheahan who became president of the Mallow Chamber in January this year.

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Readymix plc, the building materials company which has operations in Rossmore and Ballyclough, Co Cork, recently announced that for the first six months of the year it expects a loss before tax of approximately -10million, including -2.7million of

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Bank of Scotland (Ireland) has launched two new Notice Deposit Accounts – a 30 Day and a 90 Day Account – offering competitive rates to investors.

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Retail giant TK Maxx has announced that it is to create 120 jobs in Cork with the opening of its new store in the city next month.

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Cork companies are being warned to be extremely vigilant, as fraudsters are targeting the business community with a number of scams.

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The Radisson SAS Hotel & Spa, Cork have announced the appointment of Michèal Stapleton to the position of General Manager, where he will have responsibility for the overall strategic development and operation of the 129 bedroom hotel.

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Graphic design has been one of the boom industries of the Celtic tiger years with various production houses and consultancy business popping up across the country.

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John SISK & Son Ltd, with offices on Kinsale Road, Cork, is the 100th company to be awarded the prestigious CPD (Continuing Professional Development) Accreditation by Engineers Ireland.

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Specialist recruitment consultancy Hays have announced their plans to move into a larger premises in Cork, to accommodate their regional expansion plans.

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From its humble beginnings in the bedroom of an ambitious Cork woman, COMMUNiCATE has built up a solid reputation as one of the most effective and successful business management and communications consultancies in Munster.

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UCC Campus Company Alimentary Health Ltd, a speciality biotechnology company founded in 1999 by academics from departments within the Colleges of Medicine & Health and Science, Engineering & Food Science with the support of Enterprise Irela

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Cobh man Mr Michael McCormack of Cobh & Harbour Chamber has been elected Chairman for the coming year at its recent Annual General Meeting.

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It is one thing to take on the task of managing the sales and marketing at one of Cork's top hotels, but, to take on this role for four very different hotels, all at the same time, is quite another thing. Still, that's exactly what Drogheda man Des

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Mahon Point Shopping Centres have announced the recent appointment of Justin Young to the position of Centre Manager.

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First Active Cork City has launched its new Green Loan which supports the objectives set out by World Environment Day (June 5).

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