Business services firm SouthWestern is to create a further 100 jobs in an expansion of its operation in west Cork.
The company, which provides tech-based administrative services for businesses in the private and public sectors, said the new posts would be based in and around its Clonakilty headquarters, and would come on stream later this year.
SouthWestern, formerly a part of the SWS Group, already employs more than 450 staff in Cork, and a further 200 at its base in Lodz, Poland.
The company recently won a major contract with the Department of Agriculture for the processing of bovine farm-to-farm movements and on-farm death notifications.
Some 30 staff are working on the scheme which is just one of a number of projects which SouthWestern manages on behalf the public service.
On a visit to SouthWestern’s headquarters in Clonakilty today, Minister for Agriculture Brendan Smith said the company’s partnership with the department is an example of an effective public private partnership.
Mr Smith said he wanted to see first hand the facilities that underpin the day to day operation of the outsourced components of the calf registration system and the farm-to-farm movement system.
SouthWestern’s chief executive Jim Costello said the company’s model had a great potential to work in other parts of the economy.
We are delighted to have won this contract and look forward to working closely with the department. Projects such as this provide an example of co-operation between the public and private sector to mutual benefit,” he added.
SouthWestern provides business process services to several of Ireland’s leading public and private sector organisations including O2, the Injuries Board, Topaz Energy, Irish Distillers and Independent News and Media.