Digital in Dun Laoghaire

Dún Laoghaire Facts1

8,900 within a 10 minute walk from town centre135,000 within a 10 minute drive

Population Catchment from Dún Laoghaire - 1,052,202 within 30 minute drive or less - 1,771,384 within a 1 hour drive or less - 2,325,360 within a 1.5 hour drive or less

13% of residents living within a 10 minute drive is anon-Irish national.

+35mins 1 millionDún Laoghaire

+1 hour1.7 million+1.5 hour

2.3 million

IT Talent in Dún Laoghaire2

In Dún Laoghaire2,500 IT Developers currently live in Dún Laoghaire

8,600 Multilingual Sales/Support Staff with experience in Digital Industries13,500 English speaking Sales/Support Staff with experience in Digital Industries

Within 30 minute driveAdditional 2,000 IT Developers

Additional 10,500 Multilingual Sales/Support StaffAdditional 15,200 English speaking Sales/Support Staff with experience in Digital Industries

Tel: +353 1 4744600 Email: info@sigmar.ie Web: www.sigmar.ie

Tel: +353 1 4744600 Email: info@sigmar.ie Web: www.sigmar.ie

Why Dún Laoghaire

- 34% of Dún Laoghaire population are under 30 years of age and only 17% are over 65.1

- Almost two thirds of the individuals living in Dún Laoghaire have attended further education.1 - Excellent transport links; located on DART (Dublin Area Rapid Transit) line, serviced by Dublin Bus and only 20 kilometres from Dublin Airport. - Residential accomodation is more readily available and less expensive than Dublin City Centre.

Why Dublin

- Dublin is becoming a hotbed for investment in software and IT, with the sector atrracting more than 45% of all Dublin’s inward FDI between 2010 and 2014.3

- Dublin is home to 10 of the top 10 global ICT companies and 9 of the top 10 global software companies.4

- Of the 280,000 persons employed in the financial, ICT and professional services sectors in Ireland, 48% are located in the Dublin region.5

- Dublin is home to more non-Irish people than any other part of the country. For example, almost 67% of Ireland’s Chineses population live in the Greater Dublin Area.5

Why Ireland

- Europe’s fastest growing economy 6

- Home to some of the world’s leading companies like Intel, Google, Microsoft, HP, IBM, Apple, Facebook, LinkedIn, Amazon, PayPal, eBay and Twitter to name but a few. - No.1 as the least complex place to do business in the world, in the latest TMF Group’s Global Benchmark Complexity Index. - Ranked number one on both IBM’s 2015 Global Locations Trends report and the 2015/2016 Adecco Global Talent Competitiveness Index.

Sources1 Doing Business in Dun Laoghaire - A Short Guide, Dun Laoghaire Business Improvement District2 Sigmar Recruitment, www.sigmarrecruitment.com3 FDI Intelligence European Cities and Regions of the Future 2016/174 IDA Ireland5 Dublin Chamber of Commerce 6 European Commission