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Our Members

A&LGoodbody

#005CAB A&L Goodbody is one of Ireland's premier corporate law firms, providing unparalleled breadth and depth of expertise across every facet of business law to domestic and international clients.

A&L-Goodbody

Abbott

#2B8DBA Abbott is one of Ireland's leading health care companies, employing almost 4,000 people. Abbott Ireland manufactures and markets a broad range of health care products including medical devices, and pharmaceutical, diagnostic and nutritional products.

Abbott

Accenture

#77787C Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Accenture began operating in Ireland in 1969. With offices in Dublin (Grand Canal Harbour & Grand Canal Plaza) and Belfast, Accenture has almost 1,300 employees in Ireland.

Accenture

AIB

#C12354 The AIB Group conducts retail and commercial banking business in Ireland through an extensive branch network across the country, as well as its head office in Dublin.

AIB

AOL

#00B446 AOL’s central Dublin office is home to its technical hub, the development engine of AOL in Europe, with exciting projects with Global reach in the AOL Advertising, ADTECH, AOL Media Technology, AOL Search, Enterprise Services and Local & Mapping groups.

AOL

B&Q

#F5821F B&Q is the largest home improvement and garden centre retailer in the UK and Europe and the third largest in the world. In 2002, B&Q opened its first store in the Republic of Ireland and to date, currently has 9 stores.

B&Q

Bank of Ireland

#004C7A A traditional, relationship-driven retail and commercial bank with a conservative business philosophy. Bank of Ireland has a clear and compelling strategy to support its customers, strengthen its capital, continue to fund its balance sheet effectively, actively manage its credit risks and rigorously manage its cost.

BOI

Boots

#004890 Boots Ireland is a member of Alliance Boots, an international pharmacy-led health and beauty group. Its purpose is to help its customers look and feel better than they ever thought possible.

Boots

Bord Gáis Networks

#009CDA Bord Gáis Networks develops, operates and maintains the natural gas network in Ireland to the highest safety standards. It connects all customers (640,000 residential, business and industrial) to the network regardless of their natural gas supply company.

BordGais

Bord na Mona

#2D705C Bord na Móna's core business has expanded beyond the harvesting of peat, the activity that gave the organisation both its name and its reason for existence for much of the 20th century. The pillars of its future are renewable energy, resource recovery, environmental products and consumer products.

BordnaMona

BT

#004794 BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in more than 170 countries. BT operates across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland as an all island operation, headquartered in Belfast and Dublin, and employing close to 3,000 people.

BT

Capita

#01608D Capita Life & Pensions (Ireland) Ltd. provides full end to end administration services to cross border and domestic life assurance and pension companies. It is a subsidiary of Capita Plc, which is the leading outsource provider in the public and private sector in the UK and employs 24,000 people.

Capita

Coca-Cola

#E0003C The Coca-Cola business system in Ireland comprises The Coca-Cola Company and the Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company (CCHBC) with bottling plants in Dublin and in Belfast. More than 1,000 people work in the Coca-Cola business system across Ireland.

CocaCola

Coca-Cola Hellenic

#C81906 Coca-Cola HBC Ireland and Northern Ireland is one of the biggest companies in the non-alcoholic beverage industry in the country and is a franchised bottler of The Coca-Cola Company. The company invests considerably in socially responsible activities in the community, the environment and the marketplace.

CocaColaBottlers

Coillte

#15773C Coillte is a commercial company operating in forestry, land based businesses, renewable energy and panel products. Coillte's core purpose is to enrich lives locally, nationally and globally through the innovative and sustainable management of natural resources.

Coillte

CRH

#002B55 CRH plc, headquartered in Ireland, is one of the top five companies in the building materials sector worldwide. CRH is committed to embedding Corporate Social Responsibility as an integral component of its performance and growth strategy.

CRH

DAA

#B4D333 The Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) is an airport management company with 3,000 employees and a turnover in 2010 of €558 million. Headquartered at Dublin Airport, the DAA's principal activities include airport management, operation and development, domestic and international airport retail management, and airport investment.

DAA

Deloitte

#00408E Deloitte's 1,100 people in Dublin, Cork and Limerick provide audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services to public and private clients spanning multiple industries. Deloitte's approximately 182,000 professionals are committed to becoming the standard of excellence.

Deloitte

Diageo

#C4004A Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks company and is Ireland’s number one drinks business with an outstanding collection of beer, wine and spirit brands. Diageo is committed to making a significant and sustainable impact on creating a more positive role for alcohol in society.

Diageo

eBay

#2A2F88 Founded in 1995 in San Jose, Calif., eBay Inc. is a global commerce platform and payments leader connecting millions of buyers and sellers. eBay’s first Global Customer Services centre opened in Dublin in 2004 and now employs 600 employees in Blanchardstown. eBay.ie was established in 2005 and now has 500,000 registered users.

eBay

EBS

#F1031C EBS was founded in 1935 by a small group of school teachers working together to help each other buy their family home. The EBS purpose to help families get on in life has continued since our establishment.

EBS

eircom

#EB6B08 eircom plays a major role in the Irish economy. One of the country’s largest employers with approximately 6,000 employees, eircom is also a major contributor to the economy spending €1.3 billion annually in Ireland, approximately €4 million each day.

eircom

Eirgrid

#C0A960 EirGrid plc is a leading Irish energy business that puts in place the grid infrastructure needed to support competition in energy, to promote economic growth, to facilitate more renewable energy, and to provide essential services.

eirgrid

ESB

#0064A2 ESB is Ireland’s leading energy utility. ESB generate, distribute and sell electricity to customers throughout Ireland. The ESB group is made up of: Electric Ireland, ESB Networks Ltd. and ESB Telecoms.

ESB

Glanbia

#014380 Glanbia plc is an international nutritional solutions and cheese group, headquartered in Ireland. Glanbia has over 4,300 employees worldwide and has manufacturing and processing facilities in seven countries and sales/technical support locations in 14 countries.

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IBM

#2575B2 IBM has a long history in Ireland, having opened its first office here in 1956. IBM in Ireland today is made up of a diverse workforce of over 3,000 employees working across a broad range of businesses and locations.

IBM

Intel

#0860A8 The Intel Ireland Campus at Collinstown Industrial Park, Leixlip, County Kildare, is one of Intel's largest manufacturing sites, and the largest outside the United States. Intel first decided to locate a technology campus in Ireland in 1989.

Intel

Irish Life & Permanent

#12206B Irish Life & Permanent is a leading provider of personal financial services in the Irish market with strong market positions in life and pensions, fund management and retail banking. The Group has over one million customers in Ireland.

IrishLifeandPermanent

Janssen

#0070AA Janssen-Cilag Limited is a top-ten pharmaceutical company serving Ireland. It has an outstanding record of innovation and is a part of Johnson & Johnson, a family of around 190 healthcare companies active worldwide.

Janssen

John Sisk & Son

#A40038 Family ownership for five generations has set the cultural tone for John Sisk & Son through Building Excellence for over 150 years by building trust, certainty and value for its clients. Headquartered in Ireland; operations are also based in the UK, Poland and the United Arab Emirates.

Sisk

Johnson & Johnson

#CF1919 Johnson & Johnson is a global manufacturer of healthcare products, and provider of related services for the consumer, pharmaceutical and medical devices and diagnostics markets. Johnson & Johnson Ireland has a number of companies across Ireland all with active, long-standing CSR programmes.

JohnsonJohnson

KBC

#00ADEF KBC Bank Ireland plc is a bank, which has been operating in Ireland for over 35 years and has been a member of the KBC group since 1978. KBC Bank plc Ireland is committed to delivering responsible but innovative banking that is grounded in customer and shareholder value.

KBC

KPMG

#004C92 KPMG is a leading provider of professional services in Ireland. We work with clients in all sectors of Irish business, providing a range of Audit, Tax and Advisory services. The cornerstones of KPMG’s business are quality of advice, quality of service, and quality of our people.

KPMG

LM Ericsson

#00275E Ericsson Ireland employs over 1,700 employees, across 3 locations - Athlone, Clonskeagh (Dublin) and Dun Laoghaire - which are responsible for leading edge research and software development; professional services and multimedia solutions.

Ericsson

Marks & Spencer

#000000 Marks and Spencer is one of the UK’s leading retailers, with over 21 million people visiting its stores each week. It offers stylish, high quality, great value clothing and home products, as well as outstanding quality foods, responsibly sourced from around 2,000 suppliers globally.

M&S

Matheson Ormsby Prentice

#E32A2D With a primary focus on serving the Irish legal needs of international companies and financial institutions doing business in and through Ireland, Matheson Ormsby Prentice represents 27 of the world’s 50 largest banks and more than half of the Fortune 100 companies.

MOP

McCann FitzGerald

#231764 McCann FitzGerald is one of Ireland's premier law firms, with 69 partners and a total staff of over 415 based in offices in Dublin, Brussels and London. The firm is consistently recognised as being the market leader in many practice areas and its pre-eminence is endorsed by clients and market commentators alike

McCannFitz

Mercury

#D10829 Mercury is a world-class provider of engineering solutions within the construction industry headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. Established in 1972 in Ireland, Mercury has since opened offices in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

Mercury

Microsoft

#000000 Microsoft first opened its doors in Ireland in 1985 with a small manufacturing facility employing just over one hundred people. Since that time, Microsoft Ireland has grown to encompass four distinct operations at its campus in Sandyford in Dublin, employing over 1,200 full time employees and 700 full-time contract staff.

Microsoft

MSD

#00877B MSD is proud to be one of Ireland’s leading exporters, contributing significantly towards making the pharmaceutical industry the country’s leading export sector. MSD is a member of Guaranteed Irish and manufacturers or packages many of its leading products for the world market in Ireland.

MSD

Musgrave

#AB9C73 Musgrave Group was founded in Cork in 1876 by brothers Thomas and Seamus Musgrave and has remained in family hands ever since. Working in partnership with entrepreneurial retailers in Ireland, the UK and Spain, Musgrave Group is headquartered in Ireland.

Musgrave

National Irish Bank

#074054 National Irish Bank is branch of Danske Bank Group, the largest bank in Denmark and a leading financial institution in Northern Europe. National Irish Bank strives to operate a profitable and sustainable business, based on our customers’ needs.

NationalIrishBank

National Lottery

#93C73E Since the National Lottery was launched, over €3.6 billion has been raised for good causes. This funding has made a significant difference to communities, projects and individuals in the areas of Youth, Sports, Recreation & Amenities; Health & Welfare; Arts, Culture & National Heritage and the Irish Language.

NationalLotto

Nestle

#7A7979 Nestlé Ireland’s fundamental approach to creating business success is to create long term sustainable value for its consumers, customers, employees, shareholders and society as a whole.

Nestle

Oracle

#E2001A Oracle is the world’s most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company. With more than 370,000 customers—including 100 of the Fortune 100—in more than 145 countries around the globe.

Oracle

PayPal

#00325E With more than 106 million active accounts in 190 markets and 25 currencies around the world, PayPal enables global ecommerce. PayPal’s European Operation Centre opened in Blanchardstown, Dublin in 2003. Since then the number of staff has increased from just 25 to more than 1,450 today.

payPal

Penneys

#43C2E3 Primark is a subsidiary of Associated British Foods (ABF), and as part of the ABF family Primark share its core values: taking care of our people, being good neighbours, and fostering ethical business relationships.

Penneys

PepsiCo

#01529E PepsiCo is the world's second largest Food and Beverage Company and a world leader in Potato based snacks, employing over 285,000 employees across more than 215 countries. PepsiCo Worldwide Flavours (PWF), which forms part of PepsiCo, is headquartered in Cork, Ireland.

Pepsico

Pfizer

#2CB4E6 Pfizer is one of Ireland's leading employers and the largest pharmaceutical sector investor and employer. One of the first pharmaceutical companies to locate in Ireland (1969), Pfizer has a rich heritage of innovation and expansion over a forty year period.

Pfizer

PM Group

#E32118 Headquartered in Ireland, PM Group’s 1,600 multi-disciplinary teams deliver complex capital projects to clients in the biopharmaceuticals; food and beverages; advanced manufacturing; medical technologies; research and development; healthcare; energy; education and environmental sectors.

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PwC

#AD1B02 PwC is the largest professional services firm in Ireland and provides integrated Audit, Tax and Advisory services across all industries in Ireland and internationally. In Ireland, PwC employs over 1,900 people in seven locations - Dublin, Cork, Galway, Kilkenny, Limerick, Waterford and Wexford.

PWC

Rabobank

#3E2965 Rabobank Ireland was established in Dublin's International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in 1994. It is now one of the larger banks in Ireland (in terms of assets) and it employs in excess of 90 staff.

Rabobank

Savills

DE5D2F Savills Ireland has been at the forefront of the Irish Property market for more than 50 years. Savills Ireland is a full service real estate advisory firm covering the entire of Ireland (including Northern Ireland) with offices in Dublin, Cork and Belfast.

Savills

Shell

EE2E24 The history of Shell in Ireland dates back almost a hundred years when the company set up its first headquarters in Ireland at Alexandra Road, Dublin. Shell now operates from their offices in Corrib House, 52 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin 2.

Shell

Smurfit Kappa Group

1A70B9 Smurfit Kappa Ireland, with locations throughout the country, is the Irish market leader in packaging and point of purchase solutions that are right first time, delivered on time and work every time.

Smurfit

Sodexo

#283896 Sodexo serves food across Ireland to every sector from banking and leisure, to manufacturing and education creating bespoke solutions for major events, boardroom hospitality and staff dining – and all of it is nutritionally balanced, lovingly prepared and sustainable.

Sodexo

State Street

#070765 In Ireland, staff numbers have grown to over 2,000 employees since first entering the market in 1996. With offices in Dublin, Drogheda, Kilkenny, and Naas, State Street in Ireland services more than US$550 billion in assets for State Street’s clients — making it one of Ireland’s leading fund services companies.

StateStreet

Stryker

#000000 Stryker has three facilities located in Ireland (two in Cork and one in Limerick) and employs approximately 1,200 people in total. These sites are centres of excellence in R&D, Manufacturing and Customer Service.

Stryker

Telefónica O2

#0008B5 Telefónica Ireland, also known as O2 is one of the leading communication providers in Ireland. As a communications company O2 Ireland are all about connecting people, committed to doing the best for their employees, customers and for the communities in which they operate.

O2

Ulster Bank

#002A7A Across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, Ulster Bank employs over 6,000 people. Ulster Bank’s aim is to become Ireland’s most helpful bank through the provision of financial products and services that benefit its customers and society.

UlsterBank

Veolia Environnement

#E3001B Veolia Environnement designs and implements tailored solutions for its clients that combine economic efficiency with control over environmental impacts, thereby helping to combat climate change, save resources and conserve ecosystems.

Veolia

Vodafone

#DF0023 Vodafone is Ireland's leading total communications provider with 2.45 million customers across mobile, fixed line and DSL. Vodafone Ireland employs approximately 1,100 people, providing customer support 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Vodafone
A&L-Goodbody Abbott Accenture AIB AOL B&Q BOI Boots BordGais BordnaMona BT Capita
CocaCola CocaColaBottlers Coillte CRH DAA Deloitte Diageo eBay EBS eircom eirgrid ESB
glanbia IBM Intel IrishLifeandPermanent Janssen Sisk JohnsonJohnson KBC KPMG Ericsson M&S MOP
McCannFitz Mercury Microsoft MSD Musgrave NationalIrishBank NationalLotto Nestle Oracle payPal Penneys Pepsico
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Business Working Responsibly Mark

Business Working Responsibly Mark

The Business Working Responsibly Mark is Ireland’s first and only certification for responsible and sustainable business practice. It helps companies to measure, manage and report on their Corporate Responsibility. See how you can become the next company in Ireland to achieve this prestigious Mark.

Network for Responsible Business

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The network for responsible business is made up of over 60 of Ireland’s most progressive companies. All of our members are working towards a common goal, making Ireland a centre of excellence for responsible and sustainable business practice. Be the next to join us.

Schools Business Partnership

Schools' Business Partnership

Learn how your company can contribute to a higher rate of school completion and enhance the educational experience for students, principals and teachers through our innovative education programme, the Schools' Business Partnership.

Our Employment Business Programmes

Employment-Programmes

Helping people get back to work in Ireland We run two innovative programmes, Ready for Work and EPIC which are aimed at helping people get back to work. Businesses in Ireland have a huge role to play impacting on the issues of homelessness and integration of immigrants. Our Ready for Work programme is unique in having the employment of formerly homeless people as its sole objective. Over 60 companies have provided work … More »

Business Impact Map

Business Impact Map

Our innovative map showcases the impacts members of our business network have had on communities throughout Ireland. You can search the map for specific county information or search by company name. We will be updating this map annually and currently it showcases impacts for 2010. Explore how Irish companies are having a positive impact around the country.

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