Pre-tax profits at the Irish arm of global medical technology giant Genzyme last year increased by 5% to €50.56m as revenues topped €1.55bn.

Every GAA club in Waterford will have a designated officer for an innovative health and well-being programme to support people experiencing addiction, depression, or other mental health problems.

Dolphins accompanied a group of long-distance swimmers on much of their fundraising route across Tramore Bay, Co Waterford, in aid of the local lifeboat service.

The Irish arm of global technology giant Genzyme paid only €75,000 in corporation tax here last year in spite of its revenues jumping by 20% to €1.533bn.

Cork-based building management systems company Sirus is starting the New Year with plans to develop sales in Britain and a short listing for a Small Firms Association Award.

A multinational biotechnology giant is to provide annual scholarships to support two Leaving Certificate students from a school in Waterford under a new partnership.

Pre-tax profits at the Irish arm of global biotechnology firm Genzyme fell 25% last year, despite revenues topping €1.2bn.

Up to 100 jobs are to be created during the construction of a drug production line in Waterford which will see the city become only the second manufacturing base of a major insulin brand.

WHEN Talk Talk suddenly announced last year that it was closing in Waterford with the loss of 575 jobs, Minister for Jobs and Enterprise Richard Bruton said creating jobs in the beleaguered South-East was going to a priority.

Pre-tax profits at the Irish arm of global biotechnology company Genzyme last year increased by 24% to €43m as revenues topped €1.18bn for the first time.

A company that has withdrawn a controversial planning application for a waste depot on the edge of Waterford City wants the public to email it with alternative site suggestions.

Residents, businesses, and a third-level college are among the objectors to plans for a waste facility on the edge of Waterford City.

The IDA has been on something of a roll since the turn of the year, with Westport, Dundalk, Galway, Blanchardstown and now Kinsale all benefiting from a significant jobs boost.

A near-$30 billion (€22.8bn) bid for Shire could emerge as the standout deal in the European pharmaceutical sector this year, a highlight for bankers in a market otherwise likely to be dominated by bolt-on acquisitions.

PRE-TAX profits at the Irish arm of global biotechnology company Genzyme increased 30% to €34.8 million last year, with revenues reaching almost €1 billion.

VACANCIES for senior executives across a range of industries have offered a glimmer of hope to the recruitment sector over the past week.

OVER 200 jobs are to be offered at a major careers event taking place in one of the country’s worst unemployment blackspots next week.

Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton begins a week-long trade and investment mission to the West Coat of the United States tomorrow.

FRENCH pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis is to acquire US biotechnology firm, Genzyme, in a €20.1 billion deal which is unlikely to adversely affect the latter’s significant Irish presence.

US stocks extended their rally into a third week today as investors sent bank stocks higher following new global regulatory requirements and China’s economy continued its robust growth.

Embattled oil major BP soared 5% today as investors cheered the prospect of a change at the top ahead of Tony Hayward's expected departure.

GENZYME — the US biotechnology company that has invested more than €300 million (€227m) in its Irish operations in Co Waterford since establishing an Irish base in 2001 — has reported a 21% rise in group revenue, to $4.6 billion (€3.5bn) for 2008.

Tánaiste Mary Coughlan is on a five-city tour of the US this week to attract US firms to Ireland.

JACOBS ENGINEERING — the California-based construction services giant that has offices in Dublin and Cork — has won the contract to look after the building of pharmaceutical firm Genzyme’s €130 million expansion of its existing Waterford facility.

WATERFORD Institute of Technology is gearing up for next week’s world-class business and education conference which will feature representatives from 20 countries and guest lecturers from Malaysia and the US.

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.

WATERFORD’s descent into economic gloom was halted yesterday by confirmation of 270 new jobs for the county thanks to big expansion programmes by two multinationals.

Enterprise Minister Micheal Martin has announced details of 270 new jobs at two US firms in Co Waterford.

A BIOTECHNOLOGY company that employs more than 400 people at its Waterford campus will mark European Rare Disease Day today with a balloon release into the city.

REVENUES at biotechnology firm Genzyme, which employs almost 400 people in Co Waterford, rose 21% in the fourth quarter of last year to $1.04 billion (€0.7bn), up from $854m (€577m) in the same period a year earlier.

Imtech NV, a Dutch technical services provider, is to buy the Irish firm Suir Engineering Ltd.

BIOTECHNOLOGY company Genzyme, which employs more than 380 people at its Waterford facility, has reported an 18% increase in revenues in the three months to June 30.

Biotechnology company Genzyme, which employs 349 people at its biotechnology facility in Waterford, has announced that a further 52 people will be recruited before the end of this year, taking employment to 401 — an increase of 156 since the start of 2006.

Waterford biotechnology company Genzyme have announced 52 new jobs for their Waterford-based facility.

US BIOTECHNOLOGY company, Genzyme has announced a second major drug manufacturing project for its Irish operations in as many weeks.

GENZYME, the US-based biotechnology company, is to move the final stages of the production process for its leading Cerezyme treatment to its Irish operation in Waterford.

WATERFORD-BASED biotechnology company Genzyme Ireland is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its establishment in Boston with confirmation that 50 jobs are to be created in the south-east by the end of the year.

A MAJOR Waterford employer, which has begun construction of a new €61 million manufacturing facility in the city, has received a boost that could translate into more jobs.

THE IDA was cleared to give a €48.25 million grant to Johnson & Johnson’s new Cork plant, Centocor, by the European Commission yesterday.

MORE flights between Waterford and Britain and plans for services linking the south-east and Dublin are expected to be outlined today as bosses at the South-East Regional Airport gather for their annual general meeting.

WATERFORD-based biotechnology company Genzyme is to provide 120 jobs by the end of next year.

UP to 100 new jobs are expected to be announced for Waterford today at a thriving biotechnology plant which already employs 250 people.

IRISH company Project Management Group (PM) has been awarded the contract to construct a €75m expansion for Genzyme Flanders, a subsidiary of US biotechnology giant Genzyme, at Geel in Belgium.