INTERNATIONAL Ireland: Eli Lilly needs 200 in Cork
28 March 2012
Pharmaceuticals firm Eli Lilly and Company will invest €330m (£280m) in a new facility at its Kinsale campus in Cork, which will need “200 highly skilled employees”, at the same time creating 300 construction stage jobs.
Tues, 28 Feb 2012
Pharmaceuticals firm Eli Lilly and Company will invest €330m (£280m) in a new facility at its Kinsale campus in Cork, which will need “200 highly skilled employees”, at the same time creating 300 construction stage jobs.
Jobs, enterprise and innovation minister Richard Bruton hailed this as showing the feasibility of the government’s recently-published Action Plan for Jobs, which as reported by recruiter.co.uk 15 February, will seek to create 100,000 jobs in Ireland by 2016.Bruton says: “The Action Plan for Jobs, which the government published recently, outlined a range of measures which we will take in 2012 to target the high-end manufacturing and health/life sciences sectors for further growth and also to deepen and develop the impact of multinational companies in Ireland.
“Today’s announcement… shows what is possible in these areas.”
Maria Crowe, president of global manufacturing operations at the Eli Lilly, says: “The output from this commitment to education is also reflected in the excellent candidates who apply to join our company, many of whom have gone on to careers at Lilly operations across the globe.”
Pharmaceuticals firm Eli Lilly and Company will invest €330m (£280m) in a new facility at its Kinsale campus in Cork, which will need “200 highly skilled employees”, at the same time creating 300 construction stage jobs.
Jobs, enterprise and innovation minister Richard Bruton hailed this as showing the feasibility of the government’s recently-published Action Plan for Jobs, which as reported by recruiter.co.uk 15 February, will seek to create 100,000 jobs in Ireland by 2016.Bruton says: “The Action Plan for Jobs, which the government published recently, outlined a range of measures which we will take in 2012 to target the high-end manufacturing and health/life sciences sectors for further growth and also to deepen and develop the impact of multinational companies in Ireland.
“Today’s announcement… shows what is possible in these areas.”
Maria Crowe, president of global manufacturing operations at the Eli Lilly, says: “The output from this commitment to education is also reflected in the excellent candidates who apply to join our company, many of whom have gone on to careers at Lilly operations across the globe.”
