Big jobs boost as local firm expands

A LOCALLY based insurance company has announced a major expansion that’ll create 100 new jobs in Dublin 15.

Blue Insurance, which offers cover on cars, homes, holidays, pets, gadgets and more, will be bringing the jobs on stream over the next 18-24 months as part of a significant move into the personal lines and international insurance market.

The company will be employing the new staff across numerous departments including call centre customer services, IT development, junior management and administration in their Dublin 15 office.

The Irish owned company, formed in October 2003, has 160,000 existing Irish customers and over 200,000 in the UK across its 14 brands, which include Multitrip.com, gadgetinsurance.com, carhireexcess.com and petinsurance.ie.

Speaking at the jobs announcement last Friday (July 3) Managing Director, Ciaran Mulligan, said the new jobs would facilitate the company’s rapid growth and expansions plans in the insurance market over the coming years.

“These new jobs will help our existing business as well as our new unique personal lines products and will drive further International expansion in the UK, Australian, UAE and US Markets,

? he continued.

“The jobs will assist us with our commitment to deliver value, quality and innovation to all our customers for many years to come. We strongly believe that innovative Irish owned companies such as Blue Insurance can make an important contribution towards achieving the goals set out in the Government’s IFS2020 strategy as recently announced by Minister of State Simon Harris.

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Blue Insurance’s expansion is being supported by Enterprise Ireland. Minister for Business and Employment at the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Ged Nash, said the company was setting a good example to Irish firms.

“Blue Insurance is a great example of how innovative Irish businesses can compete and succeed in the most competitive international markets,

? he added.

Minister for Health and local TD, Leo Varadkar, described Blue Insurance as a real Irish success story, both locally in Blanchardstown, and nationally.

“This is clearly an innovative company that identified a niche in the market and made a success of it,

? he said.

“Ireland’s future economic recovery will be built on the backbone of SMEs like Blue Insurance.

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Tánaiste and Labour TD for Dublin West, Joan Burton, said the jobs news was good for Dublin West and the Irish insurance market.

“Blue Insurance is an indigenous company that is competing and winning in the most competitive and sophisticated online insurance market globally, the UK,

? she said.

“It is a young company that rewards its employees for imaginative thinking. It has shown its ability to be innovative, and to respond rapidly to changing market needs.

“Under Ciaran Mulligan’s leadership, and with the strong team he has around him, the potential for this company is enormous.

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Blue Insurance recently launched a unique two-year car and home insurance product which it believes will transform the market in Ireland.

The company has won many prestigious awards over the years including

‘Best Travel Insurance Provider’ from the Travel Trade and

‘Best Travel Insurance Product’ by the Irish Travel Media.

Both Ciaran Mulligan and Rowan Devereux, who originally founded the company, were finalists in the EY Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 and winners of the 2012 Travel Industry Entrepreneur of the Year.

Blue Insurance has also won the

‘Deloitte Best Managed Company’s Award’ for the past three years running.