We continue to support our members in the hospitality, tourism, leisure and retail sectors by enjoying staycations, relishing new gastro experiences, soaking up the atmosphere in the city, exploring the great outdoors and supporting local.

Check out the official tourism website for Cork - www.purecork.ie

Here are some members’ news, offers and events in this sector:

• Laura O’Mahony – The People’s Princess at The Everyman – 30 September – 03 October
• Triskel Presents – Steve Cooney & Dermot Byrne – Cork Folk Festival – 01 October

• PM Group delivers strong operational and financial performance and announces creation of 400 New Jobs
• Mercy University Hospital Foundation - Join forces with Cork’s bravest Heroes for Mercy Heroes on Friday, 22nd October in aid of the Mercy Kids & Teens Appeal
• FREE NOW goes electric in Cork, Galway and Limerick
• Springboard Funded Courses at Griffith College Dublin
• The Imperial Hotel achieves a Green Hospitality Award
• The Lismore Food Company lifting the lid on Christmas Corporate Gifting
• Rebels' Rising Premium Seat Offer at Pairc Ui Chaoimh

• Be A SuPAWhero and take on the 50 Miles in October Challenge to support Autism Assistance Dogs Ireland – 01 – 31 October
• How to Win More Customers Without Spending More On Marketing – BBCS Webinar – 07 October
• Focus Ireland – Shine a Light Night 2021 – 15 - 16 October 
• Cobh Ramblers- Official Opening of the Cobh4Football facility – 23 October
• A Better Workday in Glandore by Niamh Brady Coaching – 28 October

• Free Financial Review to all Cork Chamber Members until the end of October with Alpha Wealth
• 5% Off your Car Insurance with Insight Insurance

A commercially focused and  long established accountancy firm.

In addition to the standard accountancy and audit services, we specialise in a number of key areas: advising on strategic and business planning, raising, restructuring and rescheduling of business debt, business reviews and valuations.  We provide regular business reporting. 

Call to us at 5 Lapps Quay or call us on 021-4276605.

Thurs 21 Oct | 9.30am-11am | 5 mornings

This course is designed to follow-on from MS Excel Intermediate. Having already familiarised yourself with the most efficient way of performing everyday tasks and now that you have mastered the more commonly used Intermediate topics, it is now time to build on that knowledge.  A large proportion of the course is dedicated to managing and manipulating lists of information from working with tables & slicers up to creating and working with Pivot Tables.

Thurs 4 Nov | 9.30am-2pm

Would you like the opportunity to save time and money by meeting suppliers matched to your procurement needs all within one morning? This Meet the Buyer event offers you the opportunity to meet suppliers selected by you, based on your current procurement needs. All you have to do is be available online on Thursday 4 November 2021 to meet with the chosen suppliers for a morning of scheduled appointments. This Meet the Buyer event is designed to provide buyers with a simple and straight forward approach to meeting qualifying local suppliers.

For more information, or to become a buyer, please email Phil Murray <HERE>.

Dear Chamber Member,

I hope that you and your colleagues are keeping well. This week has been marked by a number of positive pieces of news for Cork, which are hugely welcome as we emerge through the final stages of easing of restrictions.

Today, we welcome news of expansion by two of our members. Boston Scientific announced a €30m expansion of their Cork facility, creating 70 new jobs, as they enhance their capabilities of manufacturing minimally-invasive medical technologies that treat patients suffering from cancer and peripheral arterial diseases around the world. This investment further bolsters..

Cork Chamber's Quarterly Economic Trends survey is now open to member responses which are valuable to measure business sentiment, responses to the changing business environment and to informing Chamber policy priorities and strategy into the future. 

As we emerge from the pandemic, connectivity to the Cork region remains critical and your sentiment towards air and rail travel for you and your business is also measured.

Take the survey below or copy this link to your browser: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FF9MFQR. Our Economic Trends are sponsored by permanent tsb.

Congratulations to all of this year's Finalists! View the full list HERE!

Join host Sinead Kennedy this Friday to mark the very best in digital marketing in Cork as she announces the winners of each category along with the Overall Digital Marketing Legend 2021!

Media Partner:

Irish Examiner

The EU SME Centre is an EEN partner organisation based in Beijing whose services assist European SMEs in getting ready to do business in China. The Centre has a number of events coming up, that may be of interest to companies who wish to learn more about China:

• The Organic Food & Beverage Sector in China, 30 September 2021
• Best practices of European SMEs exporting to China during and after Covid-19, 14 October 2021
• Understanding China Training Programme, 21- 22 October 2021

For more events see the full calendar online: Event calendar or contact katherine@corkchamber.ie

Join us for a lunchtime session in association with Vodafone Ireland and hear from RTE’s Room to Improve Dermot Bannon, Vodafone CEO Anne O’Leary and Chamber President Paula Cogan around the future of work in the post-Covid world and with flexible working becoming a permanent reality, how being connected in the right way is more important than ever!

Join Patrick Gallen, Partner, People and Change Consulting at Grant Thornton for this informative session on the future of work!

This session will look at how remote working is here to stay with most organisations transitioning to some form of hybrid model along with the implications for leaders when organising and managing their team and how organisations need to prepare for this going forward. 

We are delighted to partner with the National Recruitment Federation for 'Against All Odds – Staying Ahead in a Post Pandemic World'. 

The event will be chaired by Bryan Hyland, Regional Chair and Donal O'Donoghue, President, National Recruitment Federation with an overview of Cork Business by Paula Cogan, Cork Chamber President. Speakers will include Bettina Schaller, President, World Employment Confederation, Greg Savage, Author of ‘The Savage Truth‘,and Jimmy Sheehan, Managing Director, Contracting PLUS.

Wed 6 Oct | 9.30am-4pm

This programme is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary to understand your influencing and negotiating style and to use it to your best advantage. The importance of focused communication and adopting an assertive approach to managing conflict is also highlighted. 

Fri 1 Oct | 9.30am-11pm

This 90 minute webinar will look at the current trends around remote working and “return to office”, how this hybrid model can result in improved productivity, lower costs, refreshed managerial roles and a strengthened cultural fabric as a positive future outcome.