Eaton is a power management company with 2015 sales of $20.9 billion. Eaton provides energy-efficient solutions that help its customers effectively manage electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power more efficiently, safely and sustainably. Eaton has approximately 97,000...

The medical device company Medtronic-Covidien became the largest Ireland-based company when it began trading on the New York Stock Exchange in 2015. Following Medtronic Inc’s $49.9 billion acquisition of Dublin-domiciled surgical supplies group Covidien, the Minneapol...

CRH plc is an international building materials group. The group was formed through a merger in 1970 of two leading Irish public companies, Cement Limited (established in 1936) and Roadstone Limited (1949). It is headquartered in Dublin.

Smurfit Kappa is one of the leading producers of paper-based packaging in the world. Its products include containerboard, solid board, corrugated and solid board packaging, graphic board and sack paper. The group's headquarters are in Clonskeagh in Dublin 4 and i...

Ingersoll-Rand Irish Holdings operates as a subsidiary of Ingersoll-Rand Plc. The industrial techology firm makes climate control systems.

Founded in Cork in the 1870s by Thomas and Stuart Musgrave, Musgrave is one of Ireland's oldest privately-owned companies. It is still controlled by members of the Musgrave family. The owner of the Supervalu, Centra and Daybreak franchise chains, it acquired Superquinn ...

Kerry Group today provides food, food ingredients and flavours to the Irish and UK markets. Since the commissioning of its first dairy and ingredients plant in Listowel, Co Kerry in 1972, the company has grown to achieve current annualised sales of approximately €5.8 bi...

Shire Pharmaceuticals Ireland is involved in the research, development and marketing of prescription medicines. Its particular focus is medicines for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, human genetic therapies and gastrointestinal diseases. It employs 119 people ...

On March 17th, 2015, Actavis completed the acquisition of Allergan, creating a $23 billion diversified global pharmaceutical company known as Allergan, headquartered in Dublin. Allergan Pharmaceuticals Ireland, a subsidiary of Allergan Inc., is based in Westport, Co....

Experian plc is a global information services group with operations in 40 countries, with corporate headquarters in Dublin, Republic of Ireland and operational headquarters in Nottingham, United Kingdom.

Greencore Group is an international manufacturer of convenience foods. The convenience foods division provides a wide range of chilled, frozen and ambient foods to major retail, manufacturing and foodservice customers in the UK and Ireland, as well as many in Contin...

Tesco's reach in Ireland includes convenience stores, supermarkets and superstores across Ireland selling fresh food, groceries and household products, as well as clothing, books, hardware, electrical goods etc in larger stores. Services offered include Tesco Mobile, Te...

A combination of food, textiles and homewares all under one roof makes Dunnes Stores unique amongst Irish retail companies. In total there are 156 stores in the group, including five in Spain and Scotland and six in England.

The Grafton Group plc is a builders merchanting, DIY retailing and mortar manufacturing markets in Britain and Ireland. In Ireland it trades under the brands Woodie’s DIY , Heiton Buckley, Chadwicks and MacNaughton Blair. These businesses turnover €2 billion from 600 lo...

ICON is a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. It specialises in the strategic development, management and analysis of programs that support clinical development - from compound selection ...

Every year Ryanair carries over 113 million passengers connecting 200 destinations in 33 countries on a fleet of 350 Boeing 737 aircraft based at 84 different European airports. With a further 350 Boeing 737s on order, Ryanair plans to lower fares and grow traffic to ov...

Bank of Ireland is a diversified financial services group established in 1783 by Royal Charter. It operates across a range of sectors, including retail, insurance, corporate and commercial. It is listed on the Irish Stock Exchange and the government holds a 14 per ce...

Kingspan manufactures insulation and building envelope solutions for the construction industry. It is based in Ireland but has operations in western and eastern Europe, the United States, India, Australasia and the Middle East.

The DCC group provides sales, marketing, distribution and business support services and operates across five divisions: Energy, SerCom (which encompasses IT and entertainment products) Healthcare, Environmental and Food and Beverage.

Headquartered in Ireland, Perrigo Company plc is a global healthcare supplier that develops, manufactures and distributes over-the-counter (OTC) and generic prescription (Rx) pharmaceuticals, infant formulas, nutritional products, animal health, dietary supplements, ac...