The Kellogg Company is relocating its European headquarters to Dublin Airport in Dublin, Ireland. The new headquarters operation will cost $18 million and occupy 39,000 sq. ft. in Dublin Airport Central, a new office complex close to Terminal 2 at the airport. Kellogg is the first tenant in this new development.
Pryme Group opened a new $13-million center of excellence in North Shields, England. The 58,000-sq.-ft. engineering services and manufacturing facility will create 80 new jobs. The new facility is a result of new supply contracts within the energy sector. Pryme provides integrated engineering services to the oil & gas, defense and aerospace industries.
Among the cost factors analyzed in the site selection matrix for many corporate projects is the candidate state’s workers’ compensation rate. Each year, an objective national ranking of the rates in all 50 states and the District of Columbia is published by the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS). This year’s study, based on premium rates that were in effect Jan. 1, 2018, was released in October: New York and California had the most expensive rates, while North Dakota had the least expensive rates. Oregon moved up one notch to sixth least expensive, and could improve again soon, as DCBS recently announced that Oregon’s rates would decline further – an average 9.7 percent – in 2019.
Map courtesy of Oregon DCBS
PHOTO OF THE DAY
Conway Events Market Development Manager Laura Martin recently visited the most northerly point of the Republic of Ireland: Malin Head, County Donegal. Pictured here are the view from an abandoned World War II shelter there, as well as the “Eire 80” sign, a neutrality signal from World War II positioned to inform pilots where they were. As the Irish News reported in 2015 when the sign was fully refurbished, the sea at Malin Head was one of the busiest shipping routes during the war, as convoys from the U.S. traveling close to the Irish coast “were hunted and often sunk by German U-boats.”
