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Utilities Electricity, Gas, Steam And Air Conditioning Supply Electricity, Gas, Steam And Air Conditioning Supply 35 - Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply
105 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
28 October 2010
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Expanding energy firm Airtricity plans to create 105 new jobs in Dublin. The new posts will be mainly in customer service. The new staff is being hired to cope with the company's expanding role in the natural gas market. It is the second jobs announcement by the company in 2010. In May 2010 it announced 200 new posts. Airtricity, which is owned by the UK-based group Scottish and Southern Energy, now supplies over
350,000 customers in Ireland, offering them both gas and electricity.
Sources
28 October 2010: RTE
Citation
Eurofound (2010), Airtricity, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 71453, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71453.
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