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Welcome News For Corks’ Economic Development
Cork Chamber has strongly welcomed the recent announcement by Minister Alan Kelly TD, to appoint a statutory committee to review the Cork City boundary and examine whether the local authority structures should be merged.
Cork Chamber believes that a unitary authority for the Cork region would accrue many potential benefits. In particular, significant savings could arise by eliminating the duplication of resources by combining many aspects of local authority activity which in turn could lead to a reduction in rates for business located in Cork. In addition, it is important that Cork speaks with one voice in order to maximise economic investment and having a single local authority for the entire County could be the catalyst for a more streamlined approach to economic development. Cork Chamber looks forward to engaging with the newly established statutory committee charged with reporting on their deliberations within the next nine months.
Positive start to 2015 for the Cork Economy
Cork Chamber is delighted to welcome 100 new jobs for Cork. These jobs will be created by US Company ABEC Inc. who are to expand their global operations in Fermoy. This job announcement comes fast on the back of a number of recent positive developments for Cork including the recent sale of the Capitol Cinema Site, the progression of the Pairc Ui Chaoimh redevelopment and the new Events Centre to be located at the Bemish and Crawford site and finally, the commencement of construction on the One Albert Quay project.
When completed, these projects will significantly enhance the already facilitative business environment that exists in Cork.
Survey Prize Winner
Cork Chamber would like to congratulate Gary Duffy, Excelsys Technologies on winning a One Night Luxury Stay for Two at Cork's premier five star hotel, Hayfield Manor, for completing our Q4 Economic Trends Survey. Many thanks to all those who completed this quarter’s economic survey.
Your input is greatly appreciated and highlighted a number of positive trends around confidence levels, turnover, net profits and employment. However, the survey findings also highlighted a number of factors that businesses believe pose a threat to growth and require careful monitoring to reduce any associated risks. The top three threats to business growth reported by respondents related to cost competitiveness, taxation levels and over-regulation. The Chamber will continue to communicate the importance of these issues to relevant policy and financial bodies.
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Why Should Anyone Be Led By You?
Our Advancing Leadership Programme is starting on the 4th February next, learn how to unlock your full potential to maximise your performance!
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Maximise your Productivity!
Our daily lives have become so busy that every little tip and trick to make our work life easier is a blessing! We have a selection of courses coming up all designed to do just that, to help make those daily tasks less onerous, to free up some more time for the important things and help you focus on what you want!
Effective Presentation Skills: 27th January – deliver presentations in a clear, concise and confident manner.
MS Excel (Intermediate) - 2007/2010: 28th January - make Excel work for you!
Personal Productivity using MS Outlook 2007/2010: 29th January – have an EMPTY INBOX at the end of each day!
Effective Presentation Skills Course Date: 27th January Member Rate: €130.00 This course combines the perfect balance of theory with practical presentation techniques over one day resulting in a comprehensive training course giving participants the skills required to deliver effective presentations in a clear, concise and confident manner. Participants will learn how to structure a presentation to gain maximum effect and impact, control their nerves and convey a professional image through the presentation. Participants will practice and deliver their presentation a number of times throughout the day. One of these sessions is recorded and feedback will be offered. Following this course, participants will: - Understand the importance of knowing your audience
- Plan an effective presentation
- Overcome Nerves
- Beginning and ending a presentation successfully
- Be familiar with a strong presentation structure
- Getting the audience’s attention and keeping it
- Establishing the audience's attention and keeping it
- Properly using your eyes, hands, voice and stance
- Handling Q & A
This course is aimed at those who would like to gain confidence when designing and delivering a presentation and would like to learn a process that can be applied for all future presentations. Participants should come to the course with a Presentation topic in mind. When choosing your topic, bear in mind that initially you will build your presentation around your chosen topic and deliver it at the end of the day. Therefore, it should be a topic that you are familiar with and one that you would be comfortable speaking on. It can, but does not have to be work related. BOOK NOW! MS Excel (Intermediate) - 2007/2010 Course Date: 28th January Member Rate: €110.00 This course is designed for those who may have been using MS Excel 2007 or 2010 for some time, but have never received formal training. We will work through basics including the use of shortcut keys & some less familiar formatting options. We will then move on to more intermediate topics such as working with and linking multiple worksheets, creating charts, managing lists (Sorting & AutoFilter) among other options. Objectives: On completion of this course participants will be able to use much of the functionality with MS Excel including: • 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 Personal Productivity using MS Outlook 2007/2010 Course Date: 29th January Member Rate: €140.00 Would you like to have an EMPTY INBOX at the end of each day?! Would you like to have an organised system that will help you work more effectively on a daily basis? Then this course is for you! It will provide you with a totally practical and workable solution to managing your workload and time more effectively. The emphasis of the day is the practical application of the 'Time Management Best Practice' theory using MS Outlook as the tool. This course has been designed to provide you with the knowledge, skills and competencies to effectively use Outlook as your organisational tool. Following this course participants will: - Be aware of Time Management theory (Best Practice)
- Be familiar with MS Outlook Shortcut Keys
- Be able to use timesaving everyday functionality in MS Outlook
- Have customised Outlook to make it work more effectively as a time management tool
- Know how to create tasks in order to prioritise and manage workload
- Know how to create tasks directly from email as an effective method of deferring less urgent work
- Have the ability to use the calendar and tasks to manage working days realistically
- Able to collaborate with other users through meeting invitations, sharing calendars etc.
This course is ideal for anyone who feels that there aren’t enough hours in the day and who is overwhelmed by their workload. This course is only €140.00 for Chamber members so don’t delay, BOOK TODAY! E-Mail & Business Writing Course Course Date: 29th January Member Rate: €140.00 This course is designed to give the participants an understanding of the importance of written communication in delivering the core message of their organisation and its brand. Specifically, it will present the techniques to create e-mails and documents with a clear, logical structure to organise their ideas and key points. It will have a practical focus with the participants creating and completing the exercises which demonstrate the salient points of grammar etc.
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Business Breakfast with Tim Lucey, Chief Executive, Cork County Council
Sponsored by Irish Examiner
Date: Tuesday 10th February
Time: 7.30am – 9.00am
Venue: Oriel House Hotel
Cost: €25 members / €35 non members
To book: HERE Cork Chamber is proud to bring you the first Business Breakfast of 2015, kicking off with a business breakfast featuring Tim Lucey, recently appointed Chief Executive of Cork County.
Tim Lucey has been Chief Executive of Cork County Council since 1st May 2014 following a three and a half year term as Cork City Manager. If you are interested in hearing about what plans Cork County Council have for the future, then this is a must attend event for you.
BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW to avoid disappointment
Networking After Hours at the Cork International Hotel
Date: Tuesday 17th February
Time: 5.30pm – 7.00pm
Venue: Cork International Hotel
Cost: FREE for Cork Chamber members
To book: HERE
Cork Chamber is delighted to bring you the first Business After Hours event of 2015. The revamped, super stylish Cork International Hotel will host this not to be missed evening. Some of the hotels recent achievements include - Hotel Bar of the Year @ The National Bar Awards, Best Value Hotel 2014 with a 95% guest satisfaction rating highest in Cork, and Tripadvisor’s 5th Trendiest Hotel in Ireland
This is an excellent opportunity to visit the restyled hotel and gives you the opportunity to network with fellow chamber members, the team at the hotel, and neighbouring companies in the Cork Airport Business park.
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B2B Matchmaking at Euromaritime, Paris, 3rd-4th February
The event is focused on the European marine sector and in particular, will focus on shipbuilding, equipment, renewable marine energy and repairs. The Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) partner at Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Région Paris Ile-de-France is organising a B2B matchmaking seesion at this event.
B2B Matchmaking Event, Anuga FoodTec, Cologne, 26th-27th March
This event is at the forefront of food industry, namely for areas of food processing; food packaging; food safety; food ingredients; and services and solutions. The EEN partner, Zenit Zentrum für Innovation und Technik in Nordrhein-Westfalen GmbH, is organising workshops and B2B meetings at this event. B2B Matchmaking Event, Hannover Messe, Hannover, 14th-16th April Hannover Messe 2015 is the world’s leading fair in industrial technology. EEN partner, Investitions und Forderbank Niedersachsen (NBANK), is organising a B2B matchmaking event and aims to offer SMEs and research organisations the opportunity to find and meet partners for commercial agreements and for research and technology cooperation. More details on all of the above can be seen in the ‘read more’ section below
B2B Matchmaking at Euromaritime, Paris, 3rd - 4th February Euromaritime is a show which focuses on the European Maritime Sector and it will take place in Paris’ Porte de Versailles Centre, 3th-5th February. The event will comprise of 80 exhibitors, over 5,000 visitors, and 140 key speakers between the conference and workshop elements. The event will specifically focus on shipbuilding, equipment, repairs and renewable energy. In line with this event, the Enterprise Europe Network partner at the Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Région Paris Ile-de-France, is organising a B2B matchmaking event which will take place 3-4 February. This B2B event will bring together innovative companies from maritime sector from across the world. For those seeking overseas partners, 25 minute one-to-one meetings will be offered to participants. Registered participants will be able to request business meetings with other participants. However meeting requests must be confirmed by both sides in order to be scheduled. Shortly before the event, participants will receive a personalised meeting schedule. To register for this event, please click here. Please note that the closing date for receipt of registrations is 29th January. B2B Matchmaking Event, Anuga FoodTec, Cologne, 26th - 27th March Anuga FoodTec is a key event for the food and drink industry and covers all aspects of food production, covering everything from machines or systems; packaging material and analytics; ingredients and services. This year’s edition will take place 24-27 March. The key theme of Anuga FoodTec 2015 is resource efficiency and exhibitors will demonstrate to small food producers and service providers how energy, water and food resources can be reduced during the production process. The main topics of focus at this event will be: water and energy efficiency in food production, efficient raw material sourcing, effective processing, food chains and green certification. The Enterprise Europe Network partner, Zenit Zentrum für Innovation und Technik in Nordrhein-Westfalen GmbH, is organising an exhibition and B2B matchmaking event which will take place at Anuga FoodTec, 26-27 March. Participants will have the opportunity to showcase their business and initiate cross-border contacts. To register for this event, click here. Please note that the closing date for receipt of registrations is 21st March. B2B Matchmaking Event, Hannover Messe, Hannover, 14th-16th April Hannover Messe is the world’s leading trade fair for Industrial Technology and this year’s edition takes place 13th-17th April. The event’s focus will be on industrial automation & IT, energy & environmental engineering, power transmission and control, industrial subcontracting & production engineering, and R&D. The Enterprise Europe Network partner, Chambre de Commerce Luxembourg, is organising a B2B matchmaking event which will take place 14th-15th April. Participation in the matchmaking element of Hannover Messe is free of charge for companies that register via the Enterprise Europe Network before 13 February. In the case of no-shows at the matchmaking event, a fine of €150 will be incurred. Contact Eimear@corkchamber.ie for further information on any of the events outlined above.
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Cork Chamber In the Media
- Irish Examiner: Aer Lingus bid sparks concern for Cork routes - Read More here.
- Irish Examiner: Company of The Year Awards - Part 2: Finalists in the SME category - Read More here.
- Cork News: 100 new jobs for Fermoy - Read More here
- Business and Leadership: ‘I Wish’ to encourage more female students into Stem careers - Read More here.
- FX Centre: I Wish encourage young women in STEM - Read More here.
- Silicon Republic: ‘I Wish’ initiative created for STEM sell to female students in Cork - Read More here.
Latest News
- Munster to Benefit From Greater Data Protection Services - Read More HERE
- Thinking of Doing Accounting At University? - Read More HERE
- PE Global's experience of the current Influx of new jobs onto the market - Read More HERE
- Bon Secours Hospital Cork, The Largest Private Hospital In Europe Today Hosted One Of The Biggest GP Education Conferences In The Country - Read More HERE
- Heathrow Slots Must Be Protected - Read More HERE
- Welcome News For Corks' Economic Development - Read More HERE
- 15 New Jobs Announced for Smarttech in Cork - Read More HERE
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Greenshoots Emerging Entrepreneurs Programme
Date: 21st January
Venue: Macroom E Enterprise Centre
Cost: FREE
Greenshoots is a six month programme for start-ups and entrepreneurs ready to make their business a reality. Successful applicants avail of weekly expert training workshops, individual mentorship, coaching, guidance from excellent established entrepreneurs and lots of group support. Deadline 21/01/2015. Contact Catherine Costello here or 026 20520
Global Economic Recovery
Date: 26th January
Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Boole 3, UCC
Cost: FREE ADMISSION
To book: T: 021 427 9053 or E: here
Experts from Redmayne-Bentley and special guest speaker Mr Jim Power, Economist, will discuss their views on the emerging global economic recovery and its impact on equity markets. Redmayne-Bentley will unveil its latest stock picks, the strategies that may be adopted to make share selections, and an examination of the performance of previous favourites.
An Evening in Vienna
Date: 13th February
Time: 7pm
Venue: Vienna Woods Hotel
Cost: €50
To book: contact Margaret or Eileen01 8732711 or Vienna Woods Hotel Cork 021 4556800 or Email here
FirstLight are delighted to be the nominated Charity Partner for the Allegria Concert Orchestras Annual Viennese Ball on Friday 13th February 2015. Dust down your glad rags, gather a group of friends and experience something totally different! Tickets would make a great thank you present…or even Valentine’s for you who may be thinking ahead!
Tickets are €50 and include, champagne reception, live entertainment, 3 course meal, live orchestral music and dancing ‘till late!
Vienna Woods Hotel, Cork City (Vienna Woods have a special accommodation rate for the ball also!)
'Light it up Blue Gala Ball' in aid of the Cork Association for Autism
Date: 27th March
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Maryborough Hotel & Spa, Douglas
Cost: €75
To book: here The Cork Association for Autism will be holding their Light it up Blue Gala Ball at the Maryborough Hotel and Spa, Douglas, Cork on Friday March 27th. The Cork Association for Autism has evolved into a service of excellence for adults with autism and asperger syndrome and has improved the quality of lives of many adults with autism and their families.This black-tie affair is one of the organisations main fundraisers in the year and all funds raised will go towards their ‘Building for the Future’ Project.
Tickets for this great event cost €75 which will include a drinks reception, beautiful four course meal, entertainment from the Kieran Kramer band and a DJ until 2am. Companies are being encouraged to get a group together and have a work night out with tables of 10 or 12 available. Tickets would also make a great gift...don't forget Mothers Day takes place on March 15th this year. The gala ball will kickstart a week of activities including Light it up Blue Day in Cork City where buildings light up blue on April 2nd World Autism Awareness Day to raise awareness of autism in Cork. Support from the public and corporates during this week is vital in order for the CAA to continue to develop their services. Tickets for this wonderful evening of fine food, entertainment, dancing and fun can be booked at the CAA fundraising office at 18 Cook St., by calling 021 427 1808 or online at http://corkautism.ie/annual-gala-ball/
Double your sales in 2015/16
Venue: Midleton Park Hotel
Cost: FREE
To book: here
2015 is going to be a great year for business and this extensive 12 months programme will guarantee your (continued) success but most of all growth. With our unique SalesGrowthGuarantee™ you've got nothing to lose, only revenue to gain. Find out more during our FREE information event. Dates will be announced soon. Only businesses who apply online will be invited to our FREE information event. See you all there.
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