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Why Invest in Mayo
- 2. INVEST IN MAYO Mayo County Council
- 5. Why Ireland in figures....?
- 6. Equally as many reasons to invest in Mayo.............
- 9. Area 5586 km2 Population 130,638 Persons (2011 Census)
- 10. Our Catchment
- 13. We are very good at a lot of things…..
- 14. But we are experts at ‘Doing Business’
- 15. Our Resources... Are Creating Opportunities......
- 16. Emerging Sectors Tourism Enterprise and Creativity Energy and Communication Foreign Direct Investment Technology & Innovation
- 17. Tourism
- 19. Tourism Visitors • Return to growth • Booming Tourism Industry • Increased air capacity & access • Mayo – ranks one of the highest visited destinations • Estimated nearly 1m visitors in 2013 Why?? Because of our.... • People • Place • Heritage • Resources
- 20. Don’t like boasting but....
- 21. Enterprise and Creativity Making up our business landscape we have over 3,000 businesses
- 22. Sectors include.... Legal and Financial Manufacturing Health ICT Agriculture and Food Pharma Engineering Energy Tourism Services
- 25. FDI • Mayo will win hundreds of high quality jobs in the next 5 years • Targeted approach to emerging sectors and niche markets • Identification of outflow markets and flagging when major players raising finance for EU HQ • Utilizing our friends and networks
- 26. FDI
- 27. ICT and Innovation Now targeting
- 28. But if you just want to get away from it all.....
- 29. Take a jump into Mayo
Editor's Notes
- I would like to firstly introduce you to our new logo and branding – Mayo.ie. Our 3 pillared approach to Economic Development is concentrating on ‘Visiting’, Connecting and Investing’. I’d encourage you to log on and check us out
- Delighted to get the opportunity to present briefly. When you have as good a product as I have you only need a couple of minutes......At this stage you are probably aware; Ireland is trendingEbay, Google, Yahoo, HP, IBM, INTEL, AOL
- Within this mix is Mayo. With some of the worlds largest brands operating from our shores in the West of Ireland there are equally as many reasons to invest here
- To give us context Mayo is the 3rd largest County in Ireland but with 1,245 km of coastline. We have an area of 5,500km squared and a population of over 130,000. Per capita we are the single most innovative community in Ireland. We have technology businesses operating in the most rural environment with customers all across the US
- Our catchment is our USP. Within 1 hour drive we have access to a labour force of nearly 1 million people, connected by modern road and railway and graduates from 3 top tier third level facilities. Our graduates in the West have traditionally been business focused with an emerging trend towards Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths.
- Mayo is now home to the largest concentration of economic opportunities seen in Europe over the past 20 years. Our unique tourism experience has placed us as the Heart of the Wild Atlantic Way. Our products are attracting nearly 1m people a year. With direct commercial and domestic access through Knock Airport in the East of the County we are second to none for access, including a network of national primary roads and rail. We are conneted with high speed broadband and our renewable energy sector has placed us as world leaders in wave energy testing and wind energy. Shell has invested heavily in the extract of oil for export and the final cog in the wheel is the arrival of the sub sea fibre optic cable to Mayo, connecting New York to the EU and asia via Mayo. This opens up significant opportunities for us
- Irish journalists and economists are noted for their pessimism, but I want to show you last Friday’s Irish Independent Newspaper......Ireland is emerging again We surveyed business in Mayo.....84% of them forecast a great 2015
- We are rich in natural assets, many of which will be critical to emerging industry. Significant tracts of undeveloped and affordable land are available. Our people are our most signifcant resource – educated, innovative and located in every successful company around the world
- O/S visitors = 6.3m visitors 2012 – Dublin, Cork, Galway (986,000), Kerry (826,000), Clare (445,000), Limerick (391,000) Domestic = 7m trips 2012 – SW (22%), SE (18%)
- High potential start ups – Innovation Centre. Nearly 20% of businesses recently surveyed in Mayo are start up.... This is a young innovative and entrepreneurial community