eShopWorld yesterday announced it will create up to 250 new high-end jobs over the next three years. The announcement coincides with the official opening of their global headquarters at Airside Business Park in Swords, Co. Dublin by Minister for Education and Skills, Richard Bruton, T.D.
The expansion is part of a €25m investment that eShopWorld will make in people, software development and R&D over the coming three years as it continues to grow and expand. It will bring total employment at eShopWorld to almost 400 staff by 2019, inclusive of 80 new jobs created in 2016.
The company was launched in Dublin in 2010 by founder and CEO, Tommy Kelly. It has grown from a team of just six staff to 150 today with a presence in Dublin, Newry, the US, Singapore and the Netherlands. In 2016 it was named Ireland’s fastest growing tech company in the Deloitte Fast 50 (for the second year in a row) having quadrupled its revenues to €211m since 2015.
eShopWorld provides bespoke ecommerce solutions to enable some of the world’s most iconic clothing and sportswear brands to grow internationally while delivering a seamless, localised online shopping experience.
Its continuing growth is supported by a sophisticated, scalable, proprietary platform and fulfilment network that provides end to end checkout solutions, sales, customer service and shipping & returns management to customers in over 200 countries.
Welcoming the announcement, Minister Bruton said, "eShopWorld is a great model of what we are trying to achieve through our Action Plan for Jobs. Here is an innovative Irish company, established 6 years ago, which now employs 150 people and has a turnover of over €200million."
He added, "Today’s announcement that eShopWorld are creating 250 jobs in Ireland is a great boost and a huge indication of what’s possible. I look forward to seeing further jobs created by high-growth companies like this in Ireland over the coming years."
Source: www.businessworld.ie
