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THREE NORTH AMERICAN companies have announced they intend to establish their international headquarters in Dublin, while a fourth is to create 100 jobs at its base in Galway.
Canadian IT company Pivot Acquisition Corp has announced it will create 100 new jobs at its operation in Galway, with the first quarter of those jobs being introduced this year.
The remaining 75 posts will be filled next year.
The company’s chief integration and operations officer Ted Glahn said that the company’s Galway-based team “will become a centre of excellence providing world-class operations support and technology solution development”.
The positions being created include jobs in IT, finance, international customer support, project management and marketing.
IDA Ireland CEO Barry O’Leary welcomed Pivot’s announcement, describing the company as “an excellent and most welcome addition to Galway’s expanding foreign direct investment network”.
Headquarters
US-based technology companies Engine Yard, Pinger and Commence are to set up international headquarters in Dublin, according to the IDA.
Engine Yard, a Platform as a Service company based in San Francisco, plans to create 30 new jobs at its new Dublin headquarters over the next three years.
Mobile technology company Pinger, which provides free texts and calls, says it will establish an customer and technical support base as well as its international headquarters in Dublin, creating 15 jobs over the next two years.
Commence, which provides customer relationship management software, will create 20 jobs over the coming two years as its sets up its Commence International offices in Dublin. The Dublin operation will also cover sales and service of the company’s web-based software.
Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton welcomed the company announcements today, saying that the decision of these technology companies to set their international base in Dublin “shows that we are developing a genuinely world-class hub of internet companies in the city”.
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The IT sector is very strong here and is growing rapidly, put down your hammers and pick up a keyboard lads.
All job announcements are welcome… But the last three in this case any truly tiny…
We only need another 4,500 of these.
Tadhg,
The ones in Galway look to be really high end jobs around IT consultancy. This really expands this sector in Galway, this is an area which Galway has been strong in through its home grown operations. Pivtol AC will invest in these people.
This is a really postive move and could be worth way more than 400 factory jobs which could leave us due to market conditions. Harder to leave well trained team delivering high end solutions to customers.
Jack
Always great to see new jobs but going to say again, everytime I see new jobs announcements, it is in Dubgalcorkland
Just saying the same thing to a mate Alan, seem to have forgot everyone doesn’t live in that axis!
the IT and technology sectors are the way to go but unfortunately those in power seem to think that ecdl and Microsoft office courses will make us knowledge leaders. there are 1000s of people who would have been in the construction sector who are more then capable of becoming software developers and engineers if they had the right training and education.
To be fair, the government is doing exactly that with the Springboard programme – http://www.bluebrick.ie/springboard/ Given we’ve 400k unemployed, I’m sure there’s not near enough places but it’s a start down the route of proper training, as opposed to ECDL.
Pinger is a minger
Let’s break out the Aspu Manti
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