IQon Technologies Ltd was established in February 1994 in Dundalk, Co Louth and has become Ireland's largest indigenous personal computer manufacturer, supplying the Irish IT retail channel. The company employs 110 people and enjoyed a turnover of €€65 million in 2005, manufacturing over 110,000 personal computers.

Products

IQon Technologies now manufacture a broad range of business-user and home-user computers and laptops.

It also produces external storage devices, flash or pen drives, a wide selection of LCD TVs and a new suite of software products. It owns the Compustore retail brand name.

Customers

The company supplies the domestic IT and electrical retail channel with its products and is also one of the largest suppliers of computer products to the mail order catalogue and supermarket chains in the UK. It is also supplying supermarket chains and on-line retail organisations in Europe, France, Spain, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia. It has just opened an office in Toulon, France.

What vision prompted you to start a business?

We identified a lack of indigenous computer manufacturing and supply of PC systems in Ireland.

Who or what has most contributed to your success?

This business cannot succeed without a dynamic, sales-driven, customer-oriented and ambitious management team.

Express the biggest challenge you see your industry facing?

From a growth perspective, to take the company pan-European from a customer-base viewpoint . . . it is crucial to stay ahead of the technology curve.