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INTERNATIONAL buyers are expected for a clean, and significantly-sized office investment, which includes major employer Amazon, at the Cork Airport Business Park.

LOGITECH is the latest new arrival into the 750,000 sq ft Cork Airport Business Park, where 55,000 sq ft of deals have been finalised since summer, and where book-selling giant Amazon is committing to further space.

Restructuring costs of €2.45m that involved the redundancy of 49 workers at the Cork-based Citco Global Securities Services resulted in the company going into the red last year.

FOREIGN nationals account for one in six of the people signing on the dole.

ATTENDEES flooded to FÁS Jobs Ireland Munster yesterday morning, hours before the curtain was formally raised at the Nemo Rangers GAA complex in Douglas, Cork.

THERE was mixed news on the employment front yesterday as 108 people lost their jobs in three Gaeltacht areas, while Cork is to get 150 jobs with the creation of a hotel call centre.

Government will assist workers following closure of Motorola plant, writes Enterprise Minister Micheál Martin.

Two new facilities opened by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Micheál Martin, for Citco, the world’s leading provider of hedge fund services, will employ a total of 250 staff.

GLOBAL financial services group, Citco, is to set up a key hedge fund administration business in Tellengana, Blackrock, Cork, that will create 250 new jobs.

AN AMERICAN financial services company is to create 250 jobs in Cork, the second jobs boost for the area in two days.

Cork received a major boost today with a second jobs announcement in just two days.

Citco, a global financial services organisation, is to open a second hedge fund administration centre in Cork.

AIB/BNY yesterday denied any knowledge of setting up a base in Carlow.