COMPANY NEWS
Certification Europe to open London offices
Irish-owned company Certification Europe is to open offices in London in March, having opened a new office every year for the past three years. Certification Europe provides certification and training services in the fields of quality management, environ- mental management, health and safety, IT service management, information security and energy management. It already has clients in Japan, Turkey, Italy, the US and Ireland.
“Our business growth in Japan is a terrific indicator of success in a tough economy,” says Michael Brophy, CEO of Certification Eur- ope. In the past two months, Certification Europe’s Japanese client base has grown 10pc, adding 20 new clients in just five weeks. “We opened our office in Japan just eight years ago and have seen continual sustained growth over that time.” Certification Europe is also experiencing growth in the UK, Italy, Turkey and the US.
PILLO HOTEL & SPA BOOSTS GALWAY’S ECONOMY
Te Marriott Courtyard Hotel in Galway has rebranded as the Pillo Hotel & Spa, securing the jobs of up to 55 staff at the four-star hotel and providing a boost to local tourism. Pillo Hotels is a new Irish hotel
brand backed by leading private equity investor Ion Equity, which has substantial investments in a number of Irish businesses, including Topaz Energy, SouthWestern and USIT. Te Galway Pillo Hotel marks the rollout of Pillo Hotels
both in Ireland and the UK. Director of operations for Pillo Hotels Conal O’Neill said:
“Tis hotel has great potential and we plan to develop it fully with an exciting new Irish hotel brand. We believe the hotel will play an ever more important role in Galway and will continue to add to its reputation as a corporate and leisure destination.”
Photo: manager of the Pillo Hotel & Spa in Galway Cian Landers
John Ryan, commercial director, and Michael Brophy, CEO, Certification Europe
Teknomining gains further foothold in Turkey
Tree-year-old mining and explo- ration company Teknomining is set to become an industry leader in Turkey, having secured the full operation licence for its second mining area in the country’s south-eastern Diyarbakir region. Design engineer Michael Holden founded Teknomining Ltd, which is 99.9pc owned by Teknomining plc, in 2007. It is headquartered in Dublin. Te term of the new operation licence is for 10 years, renewable for a period of 60 years plus. “We expect the drilling campaign, primarily to prove the
Michael Holden
possible reserve and grade of copper and rare non-metallic minerals, to commence within the new operation licence area over the coming months. Te initial drilling campaign will be to drill bore holes to a depth of 240 metres, but this will be extended if satisfactory cores are detected below these levels,” Holden said. He added that the extraction and sale of iron ore from the existing licence areas is planned for 2011.
CLEARSTREAM TO GIVE WEXFORD A JOBS BOOST
Medical devices firm ClearStream Technologies has announced it will create 70 new jobs in Wexford over the next three years. As part of a major expansion plan, the
Irish-owned company will create the new jobs in Enniscorthy. Te positions
will be in product engineering, research and development, manufacturing and sales and marketing. Registered as ClearStream Tech- nologies in 2004, the company already employs 230 workers and designs and manufactures medical devices such as
catheters and stents. Chief executive of ClearStream
Technologies, Andy Jones, said: “We are currently embarking on phase two of the expansion to our production capac- ity to meet the growing demand for the latest generation of our products.”
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