Global logistics company Flextronics has secured high-level authorisation which it hopes will allow the company grow in to the medical devices sector.

Ireland may benefit from the increase in wages in China as a growing number of companies look to bring manufacturing back to their core markets.

CORK’S commercial property market may be heading back to equilibrium by 2013, with transaction numbers rising, a recovery in Dublin leading a cyclical trend, and an improvement in both Cork and Dublin’s urban residential markets.

The recession may have cast a cloud over the country, but it’s proving to have a silver lining for the hi-tech sector in terms of attracting more and better students.

A TEAM of Irish amateur cyclists is set to blaze a fundraising trail across the US thanks to a massive corporate donation.

TWO information days for workers hit by the Dell closure are to be held in Limerick on Thursday and Friday, February 11 and 12.

ANOTHER 130 people are facing the dole after electronics components firm Flextronics confirmed plans to slash its Cork workforce in half.

Electronic components company Flextronics is cutting its Cork workforce by 130 staff, it was announced today.

Some 140 workers at Flextronics in Limericke will be laid off by September.

SCORES of companies throughout the mid-west are already preparing to close up shop with Dell contracts drying up over coming months.

THE head of the Industrial Development Authority (IDA) last night downplayed comments by Defence Minister Willie O’Dea that the organisation is talking to Dell in relation to up to 750 alternative jobs being created at the Limerick plant.

The Government is to offer computer giant Dell a multi-million euro incentive package to create 750 new jobs after the company today confirmed plans to lay off 1,900 workers.

More than 100 jobs are to go at a Flextronics base, it was confirmed tonight.

LIMERICK has been hit with more job losses following huge lay-offs at Dell.

The loss of 65 jobs at Banta Global Turnkey in Limerick is being linked to ongoing speculation over one of the city’s largest employers.

FEARS of more job losses intensified in Limerick last night with unconfirmed reports that a company that supplies Dell is due to lay off more than 60 workers.

LIMERICK suffered another blow on the jobs front yesterday as it emerged that planning permission has been refused for a huge retail project with the potential to employ more than 800.

LIMERICK was reeling yesterday after news that up to 700 temporary workers were to be laid off at computer giant Dell and 100 people are to lose their jobs at Flextronics.

There are fears today for the future of around 100 jobs at Flextronics in Limerick as the company seeks to lower its cost base.

THE freight forwarding company Irish Express Cargo saw its losses narrow to just under €2 million in 2003.

Unions representing workers at the Nortel plant in Belfast are due to meet management today to discuss the company’s decision to sell the facility to another firm.

DEPENDING where you seek an opinion, 2003 was, in employment terms, “disappointing”, characterised by a “strong performance” or “encouraging” — but only in its omens for 2004.

The US multinational Flextronics has announced plans to lay off its remaining 80 workers in Co Offaly and shut its computer components plant in Tullamore.

The 80 remaining jobs at the Flextronics plant in Co Offaly are to go as the company prepares to shut its doors.

Around 250 jobs are to be lost in the Cork facility of Flextronics. The company manufacturers circuit boards and components.

The Cork based electronics Components Company, flextronics has announced 200 job losses.

THE country’s largest timber-frame house manufacturer is to create hundreds of jobs in a €5m investment in the Midlands and south east.

Electronics company Flextronics said it will close its plant in Limerick with the loss of around 370 jobs in September.

The Limerick electronics company Flextronics is to close with the loss of 400 manufacturing jobs.

The Flextronics factory in Limerick city has announced that it is seeking 130 voluntary redundancies from its workforce of 500.

Microsoft has revealed that Xbox production is under way in Europe.

Flextronics is cutting 10,000 jobs - 15% of the workforce.

The world's largest maker of disk drives is axing up to 1,500 jobs in Singapore and the US.