Profits increase at Limerick-based Cook Medical to €61.9m

Factors behind the rise in pre-tax profits at the EMEA Group business include €8.7m in interest payments received and a €6.2m profit from the disposal of business assets.

Cook Medical Ltd is a Limerick-based subsidiary of Cook Medical EMEA Group Ltd and during the year numbers employed by Cook Medical at the National Technology Park increased by one to 662.

Pre-tax profits at the EMEA business at one of the largest employers in the Midwest, Cook Medical, last year increased by 42% to €61.9m.

New consolidated accounts filed by Cook Medical EMEA Group Ltd show that the group recorded the increase in profits as revenues rose by 1.4% from €787.33m to €798.49m last year.