Invest in Ireland

Ireland's Unique Investment Environment

Ireland continues to win international investments from global corporations because it is seen as a business location where the workforce, as well as being highly qualified, has a unique capacity to improve, to innovate and to initiate new ideas, new processes and new ways of working that can make business more dynamic, more efficient and ultimately more profitable.

Ireland’s inward investment promotion agency, IDA Ireland (Industrial Development Agency) is responsible for the attraction and development of foreign investment in Ireland. Today, Ireland is home to companies such as, Intel, Yahoo, Adobe, Microsoft, HP, Apple, Google, Amazon.com, Palm, to name just a few.

Almost 1,000 overseas companies have chosen to invest in Ireland as their European base and are involved in a wide range of activities in sectors as diverse as engineering, information communications technologies, pharmaceuticals, medical technologies, financial and international services.

Economist Conference on Foreign Direct Investment

Transcript of Video - Economist Conference - Word (39kb)

IDA Ireland - Irish Investment Case Study Section

Microsoft Corporation

Ireland is home to Microsoft’s operations and development centres for the EMEA region. It employs 1,600 and is Microsoft’s fiduciary, tax and legal hub for this region. It also services internal and external customers in 70 different EMEA countries.

Link to Video of Microsoft announcement of new EMEA datacentre

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