The first phase of our Making It Happen campaign is now live!

It's one thing to have a good business idea, and it's another thing entirely to bring it to life. Yet, every year, thousands of Irish people start, grow and successfully expand businesses.

Your Local Enterprise Office plays a major role in this, offering expertise, know-how and financial support to Irish businesses, enabling them to grow and thrive. 

Over the coming months we will be featuring stories from Wexford businesses in the PRE-START, START, and GROW phase.



Keep in an eye out for updates over the next few weeks  on twitter and the LEO website, and view our launch video for the campaign HERE.

If you are or have been a client of LEO Wexford and want to share your own success stories post it to social media and tag it with the #makingithappen hashtag. You can also click HERE to follow other making it happen twitter stories.

Carlow Culinary Christmas sets its festive table for the fourth year in VISUAL from Thursday 6th December 2018 to Saturday 8th December 2018. It’s a showcase of all things festive from the Food & Drinks businesses in  County Carlow.

Featuring nightly food stalls, giveaways and food demonstrations from nationally known chefs. Each visitor gets a voucher to spend with a local producer and some great tips to use over the festive season. This year new features to the programme include a showcase closing event on Saturday 8th December called “Carlow Culinary Christmas Cookoff”, visualise 2 comedians, 2 local food producers, 1 judge and a mystery bag for each to cook from and a comedy set before and after to getting the festive cheer going.

   

Hosted by Carlow County Council’s Local Enterprise Office in partnership with VISUAL the event has been designed to celebrate what Carlow has to offer. 

Discount Code of €7.50 for the night events is "EMDiscount".

When: 6th to the 8th December 2018
Where: Visual Carlow, Old Dublin Rd, Graigue, Carlow
Booking: https://www.visualcarlow.ie/events

A call has just opened for a new cycle of Going for Growth, including Starting Strong, which is sponsored by Enterprise Ireland and KPMG.
Going for Growth aims to assist ambitious female entrepreneurs achieve their growth goals. Sixty new female entrepreneurs will be selected this year – across all sectors – who are strongly focused on growth. Ideally, businesses should be well established and trading for at least two years. Consideration will be given to those with less than two years sales, if the business is highly innovative, with a longer development cycle than the norm and with an entrepreneur that has very significant growth ambitions. If selected these participants are known as Starting Strong.

Known over the years as Enterprise Management Resource, EMR has re-branded to GATEWAY CONSULTING. Still the same great company contacts for Seamus and Killian have changed to 

•          seamus@gatewayconsulting.ie
•          kilian@gatewayconsulting.ie

Their new website can be found at
 http://www.gatewayconsulting.ie  

 

The Asian market is becoming a valued export area for Irish Business. CIRS provide a service for producers related to chemical, food, cosmetic, and medical devices that wish to sell into the Chinese or Asian market. CIRS performs testing of products, and provides consulting on Chinese and Asian Regulations.

Why Attend?
Keep up to date with the latest chemical regulations covering EU, Korea and China.
Two hours networking time to meet with your industry peers and government officials.
Share your insights and obtain tailored EU and Asia compliance approaches during a Q&A.

Businesses who are clients of LEO Wexford will be offered a place free of charge. For further information see:
http://www.cirs-reach.com/news-and-articles/EU-Asia-Chemical-Regulations-Workshop-Dublin.html

When: December 6th
Where: Clayton Hotel Ballsbridge Dublin
Booking: On recommendation from LEO Wexford contact Li Xiang on liideal@hotmail or li.xiang@cirs-reach.com