Waterford Chamber

Déise Training

Déise Training is a Computer Training & Meeting Room Facility based in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.  Owned and Managed by Tracy Quinlan, who is an established tutor with over ten years experience in Software Training.  The facility comprises of a large reception area, Computer Training room and an adjoining Meeting Room. Déise Training delivers comprehensive IT Training for business and corporate clients, both on or off site. They have a variety of courses from basic computer courses, Kids Computer Camp, internet skills and typing to specialized courses in accountancy and payroll, office applications and computer maintenance and networking.

The meeting room facility can be hired for various needs, e.g. Client Meetings, Staff Training or seminars.  “We can cater for up to 30 people, and have taken every care to provide for all business needs, panoramic view, wheelchair access, full IT support, and we are looking to develop video conferencing in the near future”. The Meeting room has a central location, perfect for any business to use as an extended office, when required.  Meetings can be catered and provide FREE wireless broadband, photocopying, faxing, reception service in an extremely professional environment.

Déise Training is an accredited training centre with FAS and ECDL, and is also a Microsoft specialist training centre. They service counties Waterford, East Cork and South Tipperary. “We are very thorough, providing training to our clients.  Initially, we carry out an assessment to ensure the correct level of training is delivered, either on or off-site.  There are five tutors in all, including myself, all extremely experienced in the delivery of each course”, says Tracy.

Currently providing training to many companies in both Waterford and Dungarvan, you can be assured of an excellent service when enlisting the help of Tracy and the team at Déise Training for your computer training requirements.   

Lamber de Bie Flowers of Waterford could be the best florist in the country

Lamber de Bie Flowers of Superquinn Centre, Tramore Road, Waterford recently entered the Irish Flower Shop of the Year Award 2008 in a bid to be selected as one of the top florist shops in the country and they have successfully completed round 1 achieving a Silver Award of Excellence.

The biggest Awards in the Industry, the winning shop will win €5,000 to invest in their business plus the prestigious title of Irish Flower Shop of the Year 2008.

As one of only 40 florists in the ROI and Northern Ireland (including their sister shop in Kilkenny who also won this award) who achieved the required standard for Silver Award, they had to demonstrate knowledge, expertise and understanding in several key areas – floristry skills, shop layout, customer service and business management.

They now go on to compete head to head and hopefully achieve the Gold Award. This will involve rising to the challenge of mystery shoppers and mystery telephone calls.

“The whole team is really chuffed to have got this far and to be a winner of this Award together with their colleagues from our shop in Kilkenny who also are winner of  the Silver Award, the questions were pretty tough and it’s really motivating to know we’re getting most things right,” says owner/manager Lamber de Bie, “I’m sure it will raise profile locally and hopefully give local customers the confidence they need to visit us more often.”

“Someone has to win the prizes,” adds Lamber “there’s no reason why it shouldn’t be us, so it’s full steam ahead for the Gold award, we’re really going to give it our best shot now we’ve got this far.” 

Ronan McCarthy Life and Pensions - “THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX”

INVESTING IN TAILORED GUARANTEED INVESTMENT BONDS

WHAT ARE SMALL SELF ADMINISTERED PENSIONS (SSAP’S)?

Ronan McCarthy Life and Pensions are delighted to invite you to the first of their six monthly investment seminars which will take place on Tuesday 24th June at 8.30am in Tramore Golf Club, Tramore, Co. Waterford.

Please join us for breakfast during which we will present information on unique investment products and give advice on how to incorporate these as part of your pension portfolio.

Secure, low cost and manufactured to meet our clients needs, with a view to protecting and managing any wealth accrued over recent years – Pension funding with a difference.

RSVP to Ciara at Ronan McCarthy Life and Pensions - tel: 051 391777 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .
 

Express Security Group

Express Security Group is delighted to announce their accreditation in the “Excellence Through People” Standard.

This National Human Resource Management Standard has been awarded in recognition of their exceptional standards in performance through it’s people.

The award is achieved by organisations that have best practice Human Resource Systems in place, particularly in the area of staff training and development, communication, and staff involvement in the decision making processes in the organisation.

Express Security Group and their sister company Rapier Security are the only two security companies to have achieved this standard in Ireland.

With over 450 people now employed throughout their offices in Cork, Dublin, Limerick, Waterford, Kerry, Galway and Meath, both Express Security Group and Rapier have also achieved ISO 9001:2000 and I.S. 999:2004.

Commenting on the award, Ken O’Reilly, Managing Director of Express Security Group, said that the Excellence Through People Standard offers both a competitive advantage and confirms the company’s ability to be the benchmark, for the security industry.

With many of the top blue-chip businesses in Ireland among their client list, Express Security Group continues to excel as one of Ireland leading security provider. 

Pictured below (l-r): Donna St. Ledger, Accounts Executive, Express Security Group; Rory O'Reilly, General Manager, Express Security Group; Billy Kelleher, Minister of Enterprise and Labour; Aishling O'Sullivan, H.R. Executive, Express Security Group; Rody Molloy, Director General - FAS; Assunta Delany, Assistant Director General - FAS; Bill Shanahan, Business Development Manager, Express Security Group.

 

Hewden Special Offer

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Should you require any further information please contact the sales office at 051-379200 or alternatively contact Pat on 086-2611866.

Mary Street Gallery - The Complete Gallery Show

Thursday June 5 from 7:30pm

Mary Street Gallery (www.marystreetgallery.com) opened its doors in November of last year and has been steadily gaining a reputation for displaying top quality art in this sharp, contemporary gallery space.

Having built up an extensive portfolio of both local and national artists, Mary Street Gallery is proud to present a unique showcase exhibition comprising work by more than thirty artists. With several works by each artist on display this promises to be one of the biggest art exhibitions ever presented in the South East.

This exciting show starts at 7:30pm, Thursday June 5 with a wine and beer reception. All are welcome.

The gallery is open Wednesday to Saturday from 1pm to 5pm, or by appointment at 051 304827 and This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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A Major First & National Award for HavenWood Retirement Village

Haven Wood Retirement Village at Ballygunner was recently assessed by the EIQA (Excellence Ireland Quality Association) against the National Hygiene and Food Safety Standard and have been awarded the EIQA Hygiene Mark.

HavenWood Nursing Home is the only nursing home in Waterford that has achieved this accreditation and joins a very short list of 10 other nursing homes in Ireland.

“This award is the result of some very hard work and commitment by our staff at HavenWood” indicated Mr. Padraig Dolan, Managing Director. “We are very proud of this award and we will continue to strive for key milestones that ensure best care for our residents. The Award is only part of the process to ensure residents and families can be confident that they are our priority and that safety is paramount to our everyday actions and behaviour”, continued Mr. Dolan.

“This award compliments the efforts of our catering department in providing an exceptional standard of local sourced food. The food reflects the resident’s personal choice and dietary requirement. To date we have had very positive results in providing a nutritious and varied diet, this is evidenced by their general well being and satisfaction” continued Mr. Dolan.

HavenWood Retirement Village opened its doors in January 2007 with 4 residents and 16 staff, today the nursing home is at full occupancy and staff numbers have increased to 62, assuring that the correct level of care is provided to residents.

HavenWood is a family run business and is owned locally here in Waterford.

HavenWood Retirement Village consists of a 64 bed nursing home along with 34 independent retirement homes. The retirement homes are aimed at individuals who would like the independence of living by themselves but have security of care support near at hand if required.

For more information, contact Margaret at 051 303800 or visit www.havenwood.ie

Opportunity Knocks @ The Ross Abbey Town Centre, Ferrybank, Waterford!

Located in Ferrybank - a rapidly growing area with a promising outlook, occupants of the new and exciting Ross Abbey Town Centre development can be assured of a bright future.

This high calibre neighbourhood centre is located on the Abbey Park Road in Ferrybank and is immediate to at least eight different residential developments with in excess of 1200 homes within a one kilometre radius. This area is acknowledged as undergoing massive growth in the last number of years with little or no commercial development servicing this market, up to this point. Ross Abbey aims to change all that! At the heart of this expanding residential area, the combination of the contempory design, coupled with the range of services available and the developments central location ensures Ross Abbey will provide residents and the large passing trade a one stop shop for their shopping, leisure and entertainment requirements, without having to leave their local neighbourhood.

It is an ambitious and well designed project, where a lot of thought went into the retail and commercial mix to benefit the local and wider neighbourhoods. Similarly, this large format retail and commercial precinct will benefit from strong demographic support from its primary and secondary trade areas, benefiting occupiers of the units.

Opportunities now exist for shrewd owner occupiers and tenants seeking new premises in this burgeoning area. High quality, strong covenants will be sought for the development to ensure a high standard of occupancy is achieved and maintained.

McInerney contractors are on course for completion of the project in September 2008. When complete, this impressive centre will comprise of 20 units, encompassing opportunities for retail, offices, health & beauty, pharmacy, bar, coffee pavilion, laundrette and barbers. Units range in size upwards of c. 900 sq ft. With Eurospar as the anchor tenant and several high profile clients, including Paddy Power and Tony Fan chinese restaurant confirmed as tenants, Noel Burke Developments are delighted with the level of interest generated since the launch of the development. Early enquiries are advised to avoid missing the opportunity of securing the unit of choice.

Sales and Letting details are available from Yvonne Doyle at Noel Burke Developments 091 502780 / 087 2793772, or by email at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . Further information may be viewed online at www.nbd.ie. 

Waterford Company Wins National Emergency Response Team Tournament

Waterford-based Pharmaceutical Company, IVAX, Scoops Top Prize at Inaugural Competition

Over a hundred spectators and supporters flocked to Ringaskiddy in Cork last Sunday (April 27th 2008) to see Emergency Response Teams battle it out in the ‘Knock a Fire’ and ‘Confined Space Tank Rescue’ events at Ireland’s first-ever Emergency Response Team (ERT) Tournament. Waterford-based pharmaceutical company, Ivax, scooped the top award, Depuy from Cork came second and the students from the National Maritime College of Ireland in Cork came third.

Emergency Response Team Training is essential for fire teams working in high risk workplaces, especially within pharmaceutical, chemical and marine industries. The competing Emergency Response Teams represented Pfizer Tablet (Cork), De Puy (Cork), Ivax (Waterford), Stryker (Limerick) and the National Maritime College of Ireland (Cork).  Under the watchful eye of the judges, three Senior Fire Officers, the specialist teams were awarded marks based on firemanship, casualty handling, time and pace, achievement, finishing correctly, dress code, teamwork, attitude and overall control.

After receiving the inaugural ‘CMSE Emergency Response Team Tournament’ trophy and a cheque for €600, the Ivax Emergency Response Team immediately donated the cash prize to the Dunmore East Lifeboat organisation.

All events were staged at the purpose-built CMSE Fire and Rescue Training Centre in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork, which was officially opened on the morning of the tournament by the Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Mr Billy Kelleher TD.

Seven teams, including Ivax, have already booked their places in next year’s Emergency Response Team tournament.

Arachas

FitzGerald Insurances (Waterford) Ltd have announced the sale of their business to Arachas Corporate Brokers Ltd. Arachas are Ireland's largest independently owned insurance brokerage with offices in Cork, Dublin, Limerick, Wexford and Kilkenny.

Liam Dalton, Managing Director of FitzGeralds said: "We are delighted to have sold our business to Arachas, who are one of the most progressive and dynamic brokerages in the country.

They deliver cost driven, branded and innovative products and we believe our clients will be well looked after by them. All FitzGerald staff will remain in place and can now exploit the benefits of an enhanced product range and the additional services that Arachas will bring to the region".

Speaking at the announcement, Managing Director of Arachas, Mr Donal Cronin said: "We are delighted to have concluded this deal with FitzGeralds. They are a highly successful company, with a long and distinguished presence in the Insurance Industry. We believe they will fully compliment our business. We will continue to grow our business through aggressive organic growth and further acquisition of like minded brokers".

Book A Room

Book A Room has relocated to a new offices, full contact details as follows:

Book A Room

36 Parnell Street

Waterford

Tel: 051 858182

Fax: 051 858184

www.bookaroom.ie 

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You can contact TES at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  or by phone at 051 357033.