Free clinics will tackle Brexit issues
FREE Brexit mentoring clinics will run from Wicklow County Campus in Rathnew in February of 2020.
These Brexit consultancy clinics will provide business owners and manager with the opportunity to meet with a Consultant to discuss how you can mitigate against the risks that Brexit may pose to your business. The main areas of focus will be on the potential risks to your specific business, what the impact would be if these risks were to materialise and what steps can you take now to reduce the risk and how much will this cost your business?
The trainer will be Moira Creedon, who is a teacher and consultant in Strategic Finance and has worked with both large corporate and SME clients worldwide helping decision makers at strategic level to understand finance and hence improve their ability to formulate and implement strategy and innovation across all elements of their business.
The one hour clinics take place on February 11, 2020, with clinics due to take place at 9.15 a.m., 10.30 a.m., 11.45 a.m., 1.30 p.m., 2.45 p.m. and 4 p.m.
SERVIER recently celebrated 30 years of manufacturing at its Arklow site.
Minister for Health Simon Harris, Ambassador of France in Ireland, H.E. Stéphane Crouzat, local councillors and senior leaders from the Servier Group and IDA Ireland were among the guests for the occasion.
Speaking to this paper, Augustin Blanc, General Manager of Servier Arklow said: ‘it’s a great achievement. We started 30 years ago with 12 people making one million boxes at the time. Now, we are a team of 450 making 160 million boxes a year, Today, we are celebrating this anniversary with our guests.’
‘We’ll also have a special event for our team because it’s thanks to them that the site is what it is today.’
Mr Blanc, who has been general manager at the Arklow site for 18 months praised workers at the facility and highlighted that production had increased substantially over the last year.
‘It’s been a challenging time as we increased by 40 per cent the activity on the site during the past year. This was achieved by working with local partners as well. We are also trying to evolve more as a team and that will continue to be a great challenge.’
Since its creation, around €200 million has been invested in the Arklow site by the pharmaceutical group. The Arklow plant is now the largest production facility outside of France for the Servier Group.
‘ Through this event, we are celebrating 30 years of Servier Group’s long-term commitment in Ireland, demonstrating Servier’s excellence in the production of its medicines,” said Pierre Venesque, Executive Vice President Industry of the Servier Group. ‘With a strong industrial footprint, wherever we are in the world, we provide patients with medicines of the same quality and therapeutic effectiveness.’
Minister for Health Simon Harris commented: ‘ Today, you are celebrating 30 years of manufacturing here in Arklow. I want to thank you for your dedication to this area. I also want to acknowledge the important role of IDA, which has worked pro-actively in supporting Servier over the last 30 years, as well as other developments throughout Ireland. You opened your doors in 1989, and you have grown from strength to strength with 450 people working at the site here. I hope you continue to grow and I look forward to the next 30 years!’