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A new twice weekly ferry service between Cork and Santander and the addition of an extra weekly return sailing to Roscoff has been hailed by Cork Chamber as significant for both tourism and business in the region.

Congratulating Brittany Ferries and the Port of Cork on the announcement, Conor Healy, CEO of Cork Chamber said: “Our new link to Northern Spain by sea is really good news for both tourism and business in Cork. Not least in the context of Brexit is it important for Ireland to have better direct connectivity to our key markets in Europe to enable the continued growth of Irish exporting business. I have no doubt Northern Spain will also prove hugely popular for leisure tourism, both for Spanish visitors wanting to explore the Wild Atlantic Way or Ireland’s Ancient East, as well as Irish people wishing to experience the Camino or indeed the Heineken cup taking place in Bilbao in May.”

Date: Wednesday 24th January

Time: 6pm – 8pm

Venue: Cork International Hotel

Cost: €15 members / €25 non-members**

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Get a rare insight in to the strategy behind global brand BMW this month as Cork Chamber, in partnership with MII Cork, host Paulo Alves, Managing Director of BMW Group Ireland. 

Mr. Alves will share his thoughts on the BMW ethos of ‘practice what you preach’ when it comes to bringing their brand value, innovation, to life. The BMW strategy is focussed on providing customers with a brand experience, rather than a simple deal on a car and is delivered with a passion and enthusiasm for the brands’ engineering and design permeates the organisation at every level.

For many a BMW is more than a car, it’s a lifestyle choice so no matter what industry you’re in there will be lessons to be learned on how to turn customers in to loyal fans.

**To avail of the member price you need to enter corkchambermembership into the discount code field when booking.

Date: Thursday, 1^st February

Time: 9.30am – 11am

Venue: Cork Chamber, Fitzgerald House, Summerhill North

Cost: Free 

BOOK HERE - Registration essential as places are extremely limited for this event. 

Visit Cork Chamber and learn how to maximise your membership through our many promotional channels, in particular your Membership Information Centre (MIC).

You can use the MIC the build your company profile by promoting events and member to member offers, posting jobs and news releases as well as browsing the member directory.

The session is open to both new members and long term members who would like to refresher so please forward the invitation to anyone in your organisation who may be interested, thank you!

Date: Thursday 15^th February

Time: 7:30am – 9:30am

Venue: Imperial Hotel

Cost: €25 members / €50 non-members

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All businesses have plenty of raw data at their fingertips, but knowing how to analyse and effectively utilise this data is a mystery to most of us. Cork Chamber, in partnership with Chartered Accountants Cork Society, invite you to attend Demystifying Data, a breakfast event that will help you to understand the valuable insights that can be found in your data through analysis.

The event will be led by Dave Hackett of The Information Lab who works with businesses to help them see and understand their data. Dave's focus is working with Finance teams and Accountants to automate data ingestion, create workflows from multiple data sources and enable teams to use data analysis to generate information that is vital for decision-making and planning.

Help Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) to better serve you by completing this short survey. All responses to this survey will be kept confidential and anonymous and will be taken into consideration when planning initiatives and events in 2018. 

• Competent use of Shortcut Keys
• Use formatting tools such as the format painter
• Write and copy formulas – Relative / Absolute
• Work with multiple worksheets and write formulas across sheets / Link Sheets
• Create professional looking charts and use drawing tools to enhance these
• Use the database functionality of MS Excel – Sorting & Auto Filter

The Excel Intermediate course  is designed to work through basics including the use of shortcut keys & some less familiar formatting options and topics such as working with and linking multiple worksheets, creating charts, managing lists among other options.

Places can be booked here.

Having completed training attendees will be able to:

• Identify and use specific chart and table styles to enhance the way they communicate information
• Systematically assess how their style of presenting data meets the needs of their audience
• Create a simple dashboard using MS Excel
• Manipulate data using pivot tables
• Use conditional formatting to display trends
• Utilise the features of powerpoint to present information accurately, briefly and clearly

Secure your place here!

The Project Management course is designed to be practical and help people apply the knowledge to the workplace. The course uses PMBOK Guide Version 6 as its reference and so helps prepare people for PMI certification. The trainers are expert on multiple project management systems so if a specific company has questions on practical application of theory they are able to answer and give examples of how these systems are used in real life.

A soft copy of tools and PMBOK-compliant templates that participants can take away and use when they are back in the workplace are provided.

Reserve your place here!

• Free Car Parking for Norwegian Air Passengers – read more
• CUH Charity invites you to walk the Camino de Santiago for CUMH this June – read more 
• OrthoXel Announce US FDA 510k and European CE Mark Approval – read more
• Employment Growth reflects need to reallocate funding to Up-Skilling – read more
• Full Steam Ahead as new Cork-Santander Ferry Announced – read more
• Create a Fairytale Wedding at The Imperial Hotel Vintage Wedding Showcase – read more
• Cork Airport takes off in 2018 by welcoming new airline – read more

You can share a press release to our website through the Member Information Centre (MIC), see on news on our website.

• Crotty Orthodontic: Free Orthodontic Consultation to perfect your Smile - read more
  
• MVCI Services Ltd: Get up to 35% off stays in our European properties - read more

Do business with fellow Cork Chamber members through sharing an offer. Offers can be submitted through the Member Information Centre (MIC) and all current offers are displayed on our website.

• OEE Systems: ISPE Ireland Affliliate Fee Seminar Six Sigma Data Management - 18th Jan. - read more
• The Everyman: Christine Bovill's Piaf, 19th January - read more
• Business Expo Cork, 20th January - read more
  The Nimbus Research Centre Cork: Beyond the Internet of Things, 22nd Jan. - read more
• CIT: CAPPA Centre: Business and Innovation Support Seminar, 23rd Jan. - read more
• Republic of Work: Lunch & Learn: Fundamentals of Building a Business - Colette Quinn, Jan. 23rd - read more
• Griffith College Cork: Open Evening, 24th Jan. - read more
• Griffith College Cork: Certificate of Mediation - Level 8 QQI, starts 26th Jan. - read more
  
• The Crawford Art Gallery: In Conversation: Mapping the biological, cultural and historical, 26th Jan. - read more
  
• The Everyman: Jason Byrne - The Man With Three Brains, 26th & 27th Jan. - read more
• The Crawford Art Gallery: Free Public Tour: George Victor Du Noyer’s Images of Ireland, 27th Jan. - read more
• Cork Pops Orchestra: Lord Mayor’s Tea Dance 2018 Evelyn Grant Cork Pops Orchestra, 28th Jan. - read more
• Cork International Hotel: The Cork International Travel Fair 2018, 3rd & 4th Feb. - read more
• Pimbrook: Key Tips to Better Manage Your Accounts, 7th Feb. - read more