Munster region excels in working with US partners  

Alan Healy, Irish Examiner Munster Business Editor,  analyses the reasons why the southern region is such a stronghold for US investment in Ireland

An archive photo of the Pfizer plant in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork. Pfizer has been in Ireland since 1969, with an initial investment of €10m and a launch staff of just 16 people. Today the company employs almost 4,000 people and forms a key element of today’s global fight against the Covid-19 pandemic through the development and manufacture of vaccines and anti-virals. Big pharma firms like Pfizer and MSD are joined today by other major US pharmaceutical and manufacturing firms operating across Munster including Abbvie, Boston Scientific, DePuy Synthes, Eli Lilly, Regeneron and Stryker.

Alan Healy, Irish Examiner Munster Business Editor, looks at some of the longest established US companies based here and some of the newer arrivals

Alan Healy, Irish Examiner Munster Business Editor.