Economic sectors Economy of Dublin

1 economic sectors

1.1 media
1.2 food , drink
1.3 engineering
1.4 biopharma
1.5 medical technology
1.6 information , communications technology
1.7 financial
1.8 retail
1.9 tourism

economic sectors
media

dublin centre of both media , communications in ireland, number of national newspapers, radio stations, television stations , telephone companies based there. rtÉ ireland s national state broadcaster, , based in donnybrook. tv3 media, utv ireland, setanta sports, mtv ireland , sky news based in city. headquarters of post , telecommunications companies such eircom, mobile operators meteor, vodafone , 3 located in dublin area. dublin headquarters of important national newspapers such irish times, irish independent , herald.

food , drink

dublin occupies key location on irish transport system, including main export port. ireland s known alcoholic drink, guinness has been brewed @ st. james s gate brewery since 1759. guinness firm had established providing best pay , conditions in dublin area many generations, when economic conditions adverse. dublin profited role of beef industry, main export port beef bound britain. dublin did not feature prominently in development of irish dairy-farming, concentrated in munster , south leinster.

engineering

there 18,500 people working in 180 companies in irish engineering sector equates €4.2 billion of exports. companies in sector include: liebherr, sulzer, element 6 , thermoking.

biopharma

with emergence of irish state, dublin started develop lot of light industry. contrasted cork concentrated on heavy industry until 1960s. dublin gained this, these sectors generated high valued added, , higher employment rates. several pharmaceutical companies have headquarters or manufacturing operations in dublin including elan (company), amgen, pfizer , takeda pharmaceutical company.

medical technology

the medical technology sector has 25,000 people in on 100 companies responsible €9.4 billion in exports. makes ireland 2nd largest exporter of medtech products in europe.

information , communications technology

one george s quay plaza @ night (middle)

in 1990s, ireland became successful player in new high-technology sectors based on modern information , communications technologies. becoming multilingual internet capital of europe, , regarded silicon valley of europe, attracting thousands of people france, germany, spain, italy, , uk. number of companies have located in city, particularly in south inner area of dublin 2, , adjacent counties, among them amazon, ebay, dell, facebook, zynga, dropbox, linkedin, indeed, twitter, google, emc, microsoft, oracle, fleetmatics, paypal, sap, symantec, , yahoo!. number of these organisations have premises in silicon docks area of city. located in dublin internet neutral exchange (inex) provides high-speed ip traffic exchange facilities irish , international ip service , content providers.

hewlett-packard , intel have manufacturing plants in leixlip, 15 km (9 mi) west of city centre.

the dublin area has 1 of densest clusters of data centres in europe. area surrounding ireland’s capital city has many 30 large-scale data centre operations, including global operations run google, microsoft , amazon. companies involved in cloud computing sector include citrix, emc2, dropbox, salesforce , zendesk.

financial

there 35,000 people working in financial services sector, contributing approximately €2 billion state. many of these jobs based @ international financial services centre in dublin.

ireland seventh largest provider of wholesale financial services in eu. more 500 international financial institutions, ireland has variety of activities ranging fund administration aircraft leasing.

also located in dublin irish stock exchange (iseq) , irish enterprise exchange (iex).

retail

ireland s largest retail , shopping centres located in dublin area, including dundrum town centre (140,000 square metres, 160 stores) , blanchardstown centre (120,000 square metres, 180 stores). within city centre, prime retail streets include henry street , grafton street. 2013 report, ibec , retail ireland, indicated dublin main national hub of retail activity , accounting 25% of country s retail entities, , approximately 50% of national employment in sector.

tourism

several of ireland s visited tourist attractions in dublin area, including guinness storehouse (nearly 1.5 million visitors in 2015), dublin zoo (1.1m visitors in 2015), national gallery of ireland (in excess of 700,000 visitors), , others. of 2013, tourism sector reputedly worth approximately of €1.4 billion economy of dublin.