Google Argentina
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Creating Good Jobs for the Americas: Business and Government Perspectives
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Ireland
At end-2004, 490 IDA-assisted U.S. companies were operating in Ireland, employing 89,158 workers, representing roughly 75 percent of the total number of workers employed by IDA-supported foreign firms and 5 percent of total Irish employment. In 2003, Ireland secured 64 foreign direct investment (FDI) projects, and, of these, 65 percent were by U.S. firms, including: Google, Overture, Ebay, PayPal, Centorcor, and Altera. The following U.S. firms are engaged in major expansion projects: Intel, Symantec, Wyeth, MBNA, Abbott, Cenzyme, Medtronic, Xilinx, Pepsi, Guidant, Merit Medical, Cook, and Pfizer. There are 120 companies with R&D investment plans in Ireland for the 2003-2005 period, and of these, 70 percent are U.S. firms, including, notably, IBM, HP, and Bell Labs. The U.S. Department of Commerce estimates that U.S. companies' average return on investment (ROI) in Ireland is 24 percent. ... [Read More]
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