New lending flows to SMEs have increased in nearly every sector of the economy with both decline rates and application turnaround times decreasing. This was the positive message emanating from a Business Funding seminar held in the Radisson Blu Hotel, Ennis Road, Limerick today (Wednesday, 19 October 2016).

The Mid-West Region Action Plan for Jobs 2015-2017 has called for the establishment of an Enterprise Engagement Platform whereby information on all the support services available to enterprise could be easily accessed online.

A special Shannon Chamber breakfast briefing will tuck into the Budget and analyse its effects this Wednesday.

Presenteeism and the associated loss of productivity are just two of the downsides of not addressing employees’ health, that was the clear message emanating from a recent Shannon Chamber seminar focused on the importance of health and well-being in the workplace.

Shannon Chamber is calling on the Government to show a fair balance between Dublin and the rest of the Country.

Irish companies contemplating international expansion were urged to keep Germany in consideration at a seminar organised by the Shannon Chamber last week.

Highlighting the Shannon Region’s role as a key driver of balanced regional development nationally is one of the key priorities of Helen Downes who has been re-elected to the Board of Chambers Ireland for a further one-year term.

The establishment of the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) in 2015 heralded the single largest change to the industrial relations state machinery in decades resulting in HR practitioners being continually challenged to keep up to date with employment law developments and the impact of new legislation on their businesses.

In their first year of operation the Skillnet network, Shannon Chamber have received national funding to continue the programme until the end of 2016.