China is Ireland s largest trade partner in Asia and Ireland wishes to grow the mutually beneficial trade ties with China, said a senior Irish official here on Friday.
Damien English, Irish Minister of State for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, made the remarks while delivering a video speech from his Dublin-based office to an event held at the ongoing first China International Consumer Products Expo (CICPE or Hainan Expo) in Haikou, the capital city of Hainan Province in China.
Addressing the event designed to promote the Irish consumer products and strengthen cooperation with trade partners in China, the minister said that Ireland and China enjoy a mutually beneficial trade relationship that has grown steadily over the years and that growth continued throughout 2020.
Updated / Thursday, 6 May 2021
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AOI is registered at the company s Holyhill campus in Cork and covers most of Apple s non-US subsidiaries
Pre-tax profits at an Irish-based Apple business last year decreased by 19% to $33.8 billion (€28 billion), new figures show today.
Apple Operations International Ltd s (AOI) daily pre-tax profits of $92.6m (€76.9m) for the 12 months to September 26 are revealed in new accounts filed with the Companies Office.
The drop in pre-tax profit came in spite of revenues increasing by 5% from $140.99 billion to $148.16 billion for the 12 month period.
A chief factor in the drop in pre-tax profit was the company s Research & Development spend more than doubling from $7.59 billion to $15.48 billion.
Apple s Cork-based subsidiary records daily profits of €80m in 2020
The company last year paid dividends of $81.5bn to its parent company in the US
Numbers employed at AOI and subsidiaries last year totalled 51,255. Some 6,000 of those employees are based in Cork. Picture Dan Linehan
Thu, 06 May, 2021 - 10:12
Gordon Deegan
Pre-tax profits at an Irish-based Apple business last year decreased by 19pc cent to $33.8bn (€28bn).
Apple Operations International Ltd (AOI) s daily pre-tax profits of $92.6m (€76.9m) for the 12 months to the end of September 26th last are revealed in new accounts filed with the Companies Office.
The drop in pre-tax profit came in spite of revenues increasing by 5pc from $140.99bn to $148.16bn for the 12 month period.
Ireland allocates EUR 38 million to fisheries, aquaculture infrastructure improvements
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Details of a EUR 38.3 million (USD 45.6 million) capital investment package for the ongoing development of Ireland’s publicly-owned harbor network, including 79 local-authority harbors, have been announced by Irish Minister for Agriculture, Food, and the Marine Charlie McConalogue.
Ireland’s Fishery Harbor and Coastal Infrastructure Development Program will fund safety, maintenance, and new development works at the six Fishery Harbor Centers at Howth, Dunmore East, Castletownbere, Dingle, Ros An Mhíl, and Killybegs. McConalogue said the funds recognize the contribution of the wider seafood sector to Ireland’s economy and to rural coastal communities in particular, in offering a 35 percent increase in funding for local-authority harbors.
Silicon’s Finest Irish at Stanford Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief of Irish America magazine; John Gilmore, COO of Sling Media and ITLG member; Niall O Dowd founder of Irish America Magazine
a href= https://irishamerica.com/archives/2008-archive/june-july-2008/ >June / July 2008
SILICON Valley has long been the birthplace of great innovation. Companies such as Google, Apple, Hewlett Packard and Intel all began their journeys to greatness here, and the world was changed forever. Now comes a new Irish organization that could change the way the world sees Irish America and Ireland.
With Irish America acting as co-host, The Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG) held their first event at Stanford University in the dining room of the graduate business school on Thursday, March 26.