Firms generate French business

MORE than €1 million worth of business was generated by Irish firms over the past two days during a trade mission held in the French Riviera.

The trip, organised by business development group CorkBIC along with its sister group CICOM, which is based just outside Nice, southern France, was seen as a huge success by all those involved.

Five Irish companies met with top French-based firms such as IBM, Philips, Cisco, Orange Telecom and Schneider Electric, which employs 105,000 people worldwide.