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Yroo continues expansion in Ireland

Written by Robert McHugh, on 22nd Sep 2016. Posted in Technology

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Yroo has today announced that it will grow its Irish base with the creation of 33 jobs over the next 3 years.
 
The World’s most powerful search engine for smart shoppers is growing its new offices in Dublin, Ireland in order to build out global operations and support customers in more than 35 countries where the company currently transacts across North and South America, Europe, and Asia. 

Employee retention continues to be strong and hiring is at all all time high with 450% growth since the company’s founding less than 2 years ago.

Yroo was introduced to Ireland through ConnectIreland, the company responsible for delivering the Government’s ‘Succeed in Ireland’ initiative, as part of the Action Plan for Jobs in association with IDA Ireland.
 
The Irish office will be responsible for management and international sales, as well as business development, marketing, software development and customer support. Even though other locations were considered, Yroo chose to establish in Ireland because of its location, ease of doing business and access to talent along with the existing infrastructure and knowledge in the technology sector.
 
In just over a year, Yroo has been the starting point of over 25 millions shopping trips and have inluenced more than $2 million dollars in purchases due to its offering of a seamless shopping experience which allows customers to shop from over 7,000 merchants and 100 million items all in one place.

Yroo has also grown its customer base to more than 10 million users and is currently growing at an average of 15,000 new registered users per day, primarily driven by peer-to-peer recommendations. 
 
Welcoming the news of the expansion, Canadian Ambassador to Ireland, Kevin Vickers commented, "This latest venture by the Toronto-based firm is a testament to the consistent growth in two-way investment and strong commercial relationship enjoyed by Ireland and Canada."

He added, "Once in effect, the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) will encourage even more investment between Ireland and Canada."

Source: www.businessworld.ie

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