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Bruton leads five day IDA trade mission to USA

Jobs Minister Richard Bruton departs this weekend to lead a five-day, four-city investment mission to the West Coast of the USA, to meet companies considering investing and creating jobs in Ireland.

The IDA mission to Seattle, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and San Diego will focus particularly on companies in the technology sector and the Minister will meet 20 companies ranging from start-ups to multi-billion dollar world-leading companies.

During the five full days of the trip, the 20 companies whom the Minister, who will be accompanied by Barry O’Leary, CEO of IDA Ireland, as well as other officials, will meet include:

  •  15 technology companies
  • 2 health/life-sciences companies
  • Companies in the financial services, green technology and consumer products sectors
  • Companies with combined annual revenues of over €290billion
  • Companies employing a total of over 600,000 people worldwide
  • Companies with operations already in Ireland as well as companies who may be considering investing here for the first time
  • Household name multinational technology companies as well as start-ups employing fewer than 100 people

Before departing, the Minister said:

A key part of the Government’s plans for jobs and growth is to attract more international companies to invest in Ireland. Through the Action Plan for Jobs, we are continuing to improve our competitiveness, to improve our skills, and to undertake a very intensive programme of trade and investment missions. The multinational sector has performed well in the last 18 months after a very challenging three years between 2008 and 2010, with 12,000 jobs added, and very significant investments like those from PayPal, Mylan, Apple, EA Games and Northern Trust.

We must work hard to build on this performance, to attract more investments, to target more fast-growing emerging companies as well as global leaders, and to ensure that when these companies come to Ireland they provide even greater benefit to Ireland through supply chains and involvement in the local economy. I look forward to the intensive programme of meetings this week, to discussing these companies’ future plans and where Ireland can fit into them, and I hope that this can lead to investments and jobs for Ireland in the near future.

Read the full press release here

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