Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys, T.D., has launched the programme of events for National Women’s Enterprise Day (NWED) 2018 taking place on Thursday 18th October with 16 major female entrepreneurial events planned across the country.
The Digital School of Food—an initiative of the Local Enterprise Offices in the Dublin region, and the first of its kind in Europe—was launched. The online programme is aimed at attracting a new stream of innovative food start-ups and helping them succeed.
A €503,000 cash injection has been announced by the Fingal Local Enterprise Office (LEO) through a number of its grant schemes aimed at supporting 47 small and start-up businesses.
Local Enterprise Office Fingal has two IBYE National Finalists for 2018
1,131 people employed by producers from the Food Academy Programme, which is run by the Local Enterprise Offices, Bord Bia and SuperValu with 373 new jobs expected over next 12 months.