SGS to expand operations in Cork following acquisition from Novartis

All existing employees have transferred to the Swiss firm, and further staff will relocate to the Ringaskiddy life sciences cluster

Yvonne Dunne, SGS Ireland's health and nutrition business manager, front, with QC analysts Brendan Pentony, Linda Murphy, and Stephen Crowley. Picture: Michael O'Sullivan

Swiss firm SGS has completed the acquisition of the International Service Laboratory (ISL) in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork, from Novartis which is now called SGS International Services Laboratory.

All of the 103 employees from ISL have transferred to SGS, and it has also been announced that Yvonne Dunne, the head of International Service Laboratory, has been appointed to the newly-created position of health and nutrition business manager for Ireland.