Business Podcast: Episode 13
John Collins
John Collins talks to Dragons Den star James Caan, Jean Goggin co-author of the ESRI’s economic commentary, John Armitt, chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority and Suzanne Lynch of The Irish Times on 300 new jobs at Abtran in Cork.
Programme Notes
Suzanne Lynch, Irish Times on AbTran creating 300 new jobs
This week Cork firm Abtran announced it was creating 300 jobs on the back of a €3.5 million investment in research and development which is being supported by Enterprise Ireland. Abtran, already employs 1,000 people in Cork and added 250 jobs last year following a €6 million Enterprise Ireland-backed investment in its Learning and Innovation Centre.
Abtran corporate website
Irish Times story on the new jobs
You can read Suzanne’s interview with Abtran managing director Michael Fitzgerald in Friday’s Business This Week supplement.
Jean Goggin, researcher with the ESRI on its latest quarterly economic commentary
The latest ESRI Quarterly economic Commentary predicts the economy will stabilise this year and return to modest growth in 2011 with GNP up by 2.75 per cent. Jean Goggin is one of the authors of the report.
ESRI press release on its Quarterly Economic Commentary, Spring 2010
Laura Slattery’s news report
Pat McArdle’s analysis
James Caan, Dragons Den on the new business he is launching in Ireland
You may know him as the calm and calculated investor on the BBC’s Dragon Den but James Caan is also a wily investor off the TV set as well. He runs his own private equity firm, Hamilton Bradshaw, which is based in London and has investments in about 40 firms. He was in Dublin to launch webrecruitireland, a new online recruitment venture.
Web Recruit Ireland
James Caan personal home page
James Caan on Dragons Den
Chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, John Armitt, on the opportunities London 2012 offers for Irish firms
Irish firms have won over €200 million in contracts for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Architects, building contractors, software firms and engineers have all won significant contracts. The Olympic Delivery Authority has been in Dublin over the last few days briefing Irish companies on the opportunities that exist. John Armitt, chairman of the ODA, explains.
Olympic Delivery Authority website
John Armitt biography
Compete For website
€200m won in Olympic contracts (Irish Times story)
