THE Southside has gained dozens of new jobs in a series of significant announcements in recent weeks.
Last week supermarket giant Lidl announced the creation of 20 new jobs with the opening of a brand-new store in Sallynoggin Avenue, Glenageary.
This will be Lidl’s 149th Irish store and brings its total number of employees in the Republic of Ireland to 4,280.
After 26 weeks of construction, the brand new 1,866 square metre store in Glenageary opened at 8am on Thursday, December 8.
Niall Murray, Regional Director at Lidl Ireland, said they were delighted to be opening their new store in time for Christmas.
“The opening of our 36th Dublin store brings with it 20 new jobs for the area, reinforcing our commitment to local employment,” he said.
We are thrilled to celebrate our store opening by making a number of charitable voucher donations to local organisations, such as Carmona Services Glenageary and Men’s Shed Dun Laoghaire.”
In Dundrum Town Centre 60 new jobs have been created after Aramark opened a new Food Hall in the Southside landmark.
A global leader of food, facilities management and uniforms, Aramark has invested over €1 million in the new Food Hall at Level 3 attracting leading brands including Costa, Chopped, Fired Pizza, Gastro, Kanoodle, Poulet Bonne Femme and Subway.
A total of 60 staff will be employed in the new Food Hall which has opened just in time for the busy Christmas shopping season.
Meanwhile, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Mary Mitchell O’Connor, has announced that Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited is to invest €40m in a new facility at their Grange Castle site in Dublin.
The investment by Takeda will expand their Grange Castle site’s existing footprint, with the construction of a new production facility dedicated to manufacturing its oncology product for global markets. The investment will create approximately 40 new jobs.
Enterpryze, a new affordable and disruptive web and mobile based platform for SMEs, has also been welcomed by Minister O’Connor to Clondalkin.
A total of 200 jobs will be created in the the expansion to facilitate the company’s rapid export-led growth over the next three years.
The jobs will be in the areas of sales, customer service, technical support and development as the company expands into new regions.