International Services

The West has a strong presence of international services companies

• Services companies here include a variety of large and small providers.
• Many of the companies are operating at a global level.
• The Western region provides employers with a large pool of services workers.

Companies are involved in activities such as shared services centres, call centres, consulting, data processing, on-line services, engineering services, supply chain management, fulfilment services, data centre hosting, reservation services, sales & marketing, software development, software localisation, technical support services, conferencing services, HR services, IP management, eProcurement, eLearning and content management.

For example Bank of America/MBNA has a large customer contact centre in Leitrim, IDT Toucan operates from Sligo while Fidelity Investments and GE Capital also have bases here.

Some companies here already

Bank of America/MBNA, IDT Toucan, Fidelity Investments, GE Capital, UnitedHealth, Symantec, Thermo-King Europe, UPS, Fedex, Merrill Brink International, Pacific Network Services