Grace Ryan
Supply Chain And ERP Consultant Appointment Date: 27.11.2013 Company: Leading Edge Group Business Type: Lean Education and Consultancy Position: Supply Chain and ERP Consultant Leading Edge Group has appointed Grace Ryan as a supply chain and ERP consultant. Ryan has previously worked at Plan International, Assima, Xerox and, Alza Corporation, Johnson & Johnson. A postgraduate of adult education and with a bachelor’s degree in business with computer applications from Limerick Institute of Technology, Ryan is also APICS qualified. Experienced in the full training lifecycle of SAP implementation projects, Ryan specialises in material and inventory management modules and training delivery across several enterprise resource planning modules in a variety of industries…
Read MoreLittlewoodsireland.ie launches Christmas TV campaign
Online retailer Littlewoodsireland.ie has launched its Christmas TV campaign with a suite of 40, 30 and 10 second ads. The ad, which carries the tagline of ‘Christmas Delivered’, features face of the brand Caroline Morahan in ‘A Christmas Carol’ scene, showing one family how they can enjoy the perfect Christmas. The will run until 20 December, the last order date for ordering for Christmas. The ad is supported by a media buy and digital marketing campaign, including a ‘shop the ad’ format online. Each week the campaign will reach over two million adults and 75pc of Littlewoods Ireland shoppers. The ad, which was created by DDFH&B, was directed by Brian…
Read MoreAer Lingus adds Dublin to Hanover and Pula and Shannon to Malaga routes for summer 2014
Aer Lingus has today announced additions to its schedule for summer 2014 with new routes and increased frequencies being added to Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports. New routes from Dublin to Hanover and Pula will start from April, as will the recently announced new services to San Francisco and Toronto. The new service to Hanover will bring to seven the number of German cities served by Aer Lingus. Pula is on the Istrian peninsula of Croatia and is a Unesco world heritage site. Aer Lingus is also introducing a twice weekly service to Malaga from Shannon airport. The airline will also increase frequencies on transatlantic routes from Shannon to New…
Read MoreUCD to showcase emerging companies at VentureLaunch Accelerator Awards evening
University College Dublin (UCD) will showcase the latest hi-tech and knowledge intensive ventures emerging from UCD and National College of Art and Design (NCAD) research programmes at the 2013 UCD VentureLaunch Accelerator Showcase and Awards evening, which takes place next week. Six new ventures will compete at the awards evening to win a €25,000 prize. Four of the participating ventures – Aficionado, Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann (National Folklore Foundation), Kinesis Health Technologies Ltd and Nuritas Ltd – are emerging from UCD, while the other two – Gazel and Obeo – are emerging from NCAD. The overall objective of the UCD VentureLaunch Accelerator Programme is to support the creation and to accelerate…
Read MoreVersion 1 acquires UK operation of Tieto Corporation
Irish IT services company Version 1 has acquired the UK-based Forest business operations of Northern European IT services company Tieto Corporation for an undisclosed sum. Version 1 currently employs over 400 people and operates offices in Dublin, Cork, Belfast and London; Forest’s 23 employees in Kent transferred to Version 1 on 31 October. Forest develops and supports IT solutions for customers in the packaging and recycling industry. Justin Keatinge, chief executive officer of Version 1, said this was the first in a series of strategically planned announcements it would make over the coming months. “Through this first deal, we will greatly strengthen our platform in the UK market and increase…
Read MoreHost Ireland Business Broadband to move to new offices and create 15 jobs
Host Ireland Business Broadband is moving to a new office complex in Dublin and is to create 15 new jobs in the next six to eight months. Development has started on the new office, occupying the entire second floor of the former Guinness Mahon Bank building on Trinity Street and involving an investment of €120,000. On track to achieve 45pc turnover this year, the privately-owned technology company recently signed a €1.2m deal with Sharp Security in Dublin for security monitoring telecoms infrastructure and will have doubled its workforce in 2013 to 21 people. Employee numbers are expected to almost double again in 2014, with countrywide roll-out of its high performance…
Read MoreImport.io and Placemeter win main Pitch 2013 awards
London company Import.io and New York’s Placemeter were announced as the Later Stage Company and the Early Stage Company award winners respectively at the Pitch 2013 presented by Box competition at the Dublin Web Summit yesterday. The winners were chosen from a shortlist of 150 finalists after two days of intense pitching in front of thousands of people including the world’s foremost technology leaders and prospective investors. Import.io employs 16 people in its London headquarters and in its office in San Francisco. The company’s stated mission is to structure the web and make web data available to everyone. “We are focused on growing our company and it means a lot to…
Read MoreAdroll to create 100 jobs at new European HQ in Dublin
AdRoll has announced that it is setting up its European headquarters in Dublin, creating 100 jobs in its first 12 months and what it described as “ambitious plans for further staff growth”. The company, which provides a retargeting platform for advertisers, said its move to Europe is driven by strong annual growth of over 600pc in this market in 2013. The Dublin operation will be responsible for sales, account management, marketing, HR, and finance across a number of languages and countries. The company opened its Irish office in August and has so far taken on 15 people. “We have seen exceptionally strong demand from advertisers across Europe attracted to our…
Read MoreCopyright report aimed at supporting digital industry published
The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton TD and the Minister of State for Research and Innovation Sean Sherlock TD have welcomed the publication of the report of the independent Copyright Review Committee, entitled ‘Modernising Copyright’. The report is aimed at identifying any barriers for innovation in the digital environment, and developing proposals for reducing them in order to provide greater support for growth and jobs in the digital industry. The publication of the report marks delivery of a key commitment in the Government’s Action Plan for Jobs. Minister Bruton and Minister Sherlock now propose that the recommendations of the report will be carefully examined with other departments…
Read MoreDart of Physics campaign to target commuters for eight weeks
A series of 12 ad cards are to run on the Dart and in Dart stations over the next eight weeks with the aim of changing the public perception of physics. This is part of the ‘Dart of Physics’ campaign jointly led by the Schools and Physics and Education at Trinity College Dublin The Dart cards include physics statements and puzzles such as ‘Everyone on the Dart is attracted to you….. gravitationally’ or ‘Why does the metal pole on the Dart feel colder than the seat?’, driving commuters to the website ‘dartofphysics.ie’ to find out more. The website, dartofphysics.ie, will act as a hub for this project. As the eight-week…
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