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Got some new year resolutions for your business?
Cork Chamber Networking Master Class 2016 with Gina London
Tuesday 12th January 5pm – 7pm The River Lee Hotel €20 members/€25 non members BOOK HERE
Cork Chamber are helping you start off the New Year on the right foot! Working with award winning Communications Consultant, Gina London (recently named ‘one to watch’ in 2016!) the fully interactive, informative and fun event on January 12th will ensure you maximise every business connection in the year ahead. Participants will be pushed out of the comfort zone, so get ready to: - Understand and articulate your point of distinction
- Learn how to add value to every conversation
- How to enter the networking room and make a great first impression
- Ask three questions that everyone hasn’t heard a million times already
- Know what to do with all those business cards
- Deploy social media more effectively
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Empowering your Digital Future
Date: Thursday 21st January
Time: 6pm – 8pm
Venue: Clarion Hotel
Cost: €15 members / €25 non members
To book: online
Cork Chamber and the Marketing Institute in Cork are proud to bring you the “Empowering your Digital Future” event on Thursday 21st January.
This event will look at the Digital Landscape and what is emerging in terms of marketing, advertising and sales with particular emphasis on the challenges and opportunities for SME businesses. We will hear from Marie Davis, Head of SME Sales for Google Ireland on the issues that businesses need to think of now in order to be ready for the future.
MORE HERE…
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Tax returns for 2015 €3.3 bn ahead of expectations
New figures from the Department of Finance confirm that Exchequer returns in 2015 amounted to €45.6 billion, which is €3.3 billion more than forecasted at the start of the year. As evident from the figures, this improvement in state finances stems from both increases in employment, higher corporation tax returns, as well as more VAT due to higher consumer spending. Compared to 2014, the underlying Exchequer deficit has improved by approximately €5.2 billion which brings the expected end 2015 deficit to around 1.5% of GDP. Further information can be found here.
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Number of new start-ups at highest level since 2000
The number of new start-ups established in 2015 totalled 19,472 which amounts to the highest figure since 2000. Cork, Dublin and Galway led entrepreneurial activity with professional services, wholesale and retail, and social and personal services sectors seeing the biggest increase in new businesses set-up. Further information available here.
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Small Businesses Flooding Support
The date for applications for funding for small businesses affected by flooding has been extended. Forms and eligibility criteria is available on the Irish Red Cross Website. Click here to view all the required information.
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SMILE Resource Exchange
SMILE Resource Exchange is Irelands Industrial Symbiosis programme that provides a FREE platform for businesses to connect and identify synergies where a waste in one business can be a resource in another. Potential synergies are identified through an online platform where businesses can request or offer reusable materials, by-products, surplus stock that could potentially be a raw material in another business.
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Time to get Lean!
It’s January, the beginning of 2016 and the month for new years’ resolutions and promises. Why not take this opportunity to invest in yourself and in your business with our accredited Lean Six Sigma Programme.
Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt)
Dates: 22nd & 23rd February, 3rd & 4th March, 14th & 15th March, 25th March & 8th April
Member Rate: €980
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Expand Your International Opportunities
Kick-start your 2016 with some healthy networking at the Enterprise Europe Network’s events! Participate in free webinars or attend some of EEN's cross-border business networking events. See ‘read more’ for full information or contact Eimear.
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Latest News
- The Outlook for SMEs in Cork in 2016 - read more
- Musgrave Marketplace January Sale offers - read more
- An Evening with Cara at the Everyman Theatre, Cork - read more
- Musgrave Group plant 900 trees at the Cork Association for Autism - read more
- New Appointment to Board of Henry Ford & Son Ltd - read more
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Free Human Resources Consultation
Period of the offer available: January 2016
Cork Chamber members can avail of a free one hours’ consultation. Moloney HRM offers outsourced Human Resources for SMEs. Does your business have Contracts in place for employees? If so are they up to date and do they give you proper protection from employee claims? Is your business NERA compliant?
To book, please email Michelle or call (087) 2022810
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The Official Launch of Fortuity
Date: 25th January 2016
Time: 7.30 – 9.30am
Venue: The Clarion Hotel
Cost: FREE
To book: here
Avalon is now Fortuity. Minister Dara Murphy TD will officially launch the new Fortuity brand at a breakfast briefing in the Clarion Hotel, Cork on Monday 25th January 2016. The briefing will cover Cyber & Data Security issues pertaining to the SME sector and is free to attend. Tea/coffee and light refreshments will be served, registration is essential here.
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Network Cork January 2016 event
Date: Wednesday 13th January 2016
Time: 6pm – 8pm
Venue: The Clarion Hotel, Lapps Quay
Cost: Free to members / €25 for non- members
To book: online
Network Cork kicks off this year with an event which features one of the heaviest hitters in media and communications in Ireland – broadcaster, columnist and communications expert Terry Prone.
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