Roscommon firm Global Flood solutions, the flood prevention firm have been making great progress clinching export deals for their Big Bag System, the quick deploying flood barrier. Since the turn of the year the struck €2.5m worth of deal to UK, US and Canadian companies. There’s plenty more in the pipeline too.
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Global Flood Solutions’s deals in the US and canada received high profile coverage this week in The Irish Times, with a byline on the front of the page of the paper followed by a prominent centre page article in the Business section
Here is a link to the article on The Irish Times’s website please click here or the full article is also below
The Irish Times – Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Roscommon firm seals flood management deals in US
COLM KEENA, Public Affairs Correspondent
A ROSCOMMON company has secured a number of deals for its flood management system in the US in recent weeks.
Global Flood Solutions (GFS) acquired export deals for its Big Bag System in Canada and the US as local authorities prepare for the spring thaw, which is expected to cause major flooding across North America.
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Roscommon firm’s Big Bag System deployed in Canada and US in €300,000 deals in advance of Spring thaw and predicted flooding across North America.
26th April, 2011; Roscommon, Ireland: Global Flood Solutions (GFS) has secured major export deals for their Big Bag System in Canada and the USA as local authorities there prepare for the Spring thaw after a winter of heaving snow, which it predicts will cause major flooding across North America.
The firm’s award winning Big Bag System has already been in action last week in the city of Medicine Hat, where heavy snow in the Cypress Hills is causing major flooding in the Prairies of Alberta. The Medicine Hat Engineering Department have signed a C$300,000 (€225,000) deal for several kilometres of the Big Bag System, the first delivery of which was put in place overnight last week to protect the town after the local dam on the Saskatchewan River was breached following the declaring of a State of Emergency across Alberta.
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Business, flood barriers, flood defences, flood prevention, sand bags | Simon Palmer | 26/04/2011 12:56 pm | Comments (0)
Global Flood Solutions’s award winning flood defence barrier the Big Bag System was used in an emergency deployment in Canada last week. Heavy winter snow in the Cypress Hills in Alberta is melting and the highest flooding in 150 years is predicted. Last week the dam above the city of Medicine Hat was breached; Global Flood Solutions received a call from the city’s Department of Engineering that they needed the Big Bag System. In their business a quick response is vital and with 24 hours the first deployment of the Big Bag System had been flown up to Alberta and was being deployed.
Here’s the footage:
Medicine Hat was protected and the Canadians were very happy with the robustness of the Big Bag System and how it could hold back significant amounts of water. Crucially it was able to be deployed very quickly.
The State of Emergency in respect of flooding is expected to stay in place until the end of May.
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The guys from Global Flood Solutions received more recognition yesterday with more national coverage, this time The Sunday Business Post which covered the €2m deal they’ve signed with UK firm SG Baker to supply their unique quickly deploying flood defence barrier, the Big Bag System.
Here is the full text of the article:
THE SUNDAY BUSINESS POST – DONE DEAL
Deal is in the Bag for Roscommon firm
23 January 2011 By Elaine O’Regan
Deal bagged: Dennis Fearon (L) and Shane Curran (R) at SG Baker's headquarters.Deal is in the Bag for Roscommon firm
Roscommon start-up Global Flood Solutions (GFS) has secured a major export deal with SG Baker, a supplier of sandbags to the British market.
Under the terms of the three-year agreement, valued at €2 million, GFS will supply 7,000 Big BagSystems to SGBaker.
GFS secured the worldwide distribution rights for Big Bag Systems, a flood defence product manufactured by German company Harbeck GmbH last May.
As the biggest distributor of conventional sandbags to the British market, SG Baker supplies the British military and 89 local authorities across the country.
Dennis Fearon, managing director of SG Baker, said the BigBagSystems could replace some of the existing flood defence products already sold by the company. ‘‘After the extensive flooding of last winter and high levels of recent snowfall, it was important we signed this deal now, in order to have the system ready for the coming thaw and flood season,” he said.
The Big Bag Systems has a concertina design consisting of five robust polypropylene bags. It has a water-repellent front and a unique filtration component to the rear, which allows rainwater to seep out. ‘‘Floods have been a big problem in Britain,” Fearon said. ‘‘They come fast and often without warning. ‘‘As Britain’s biggest supplier of sandbags, we are often the first place local authorities and companies turn to in times of flooding. With the BigBagystem, Global Flood Solutions have a unique product that can be deployed very quickly and cost-effectively to our existing client base.” Global Flood Solutions was established in March 2010 by co-founders Shane Curran and Gerard Brennan. The company has eight staff, and also sells a self-erecting flood barrier.
We had a very busy Saturday in Mahon, when the Cork Medical Centre, Ireland’s newest private hospital, commenced the second stage of it’s recruitment drive. The main operating theatres are due to open on 14th March, so in order to save time there was a recruitment Open Day on Saturday where prospective employees could drop off their CVs in person, meet the management team and tour the hospital. On offer are 100 clinical positions in nursing, radiology, theatre, pharmacy and laboratory.
The response was incredible. The recruitment day was due to run between 12 noon and 3pm, but people were queuing from 8am. By noon the queue was all the way around corner onto St Michael’s Drive and down to the main road. See here.
Queues snaked out of City Gate and along St Michael's Road
Almost 500 people attended the recruitment day, with half of those being nurses. By people came from all over the south of Ireland, from as far afield as Kerry and Waterford; ten people even came down from Dublin. This not too surprising as there had been extensive media coverage about the event on page of the Irish Examiner and page 6 of the Irish Independent, both local radio stations, Red FM and Cork’s 96 FM as well as national radio stations, Today FM, Newstalk and Radio 1, which culminated in piece on RTE’s Six One TV News, which you can view here: http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0119/corkmedicalcentre.html#video
This demand led to the open day running on until 4.30pm to ensure everybody was seen too and ensure they also got to see the facility. The Irish Examiner sent a photographer down to cover that day and did a follow up piece below, which also appeared on page 2, by their local news reporter Eoin English see below:
Coverage from Page 2 of today's Irish Examiner
Below is a link to the article on the web and we have also pasted in text
http://www.examiner.ie/ireland/almost-500-compete-for-100-jobs-at-new-hospital-142988.html
By Eoin English
MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 2011
ALMOST 500 people queued for 100 medical jobs at the country’s newest private hospital at the weekend.
Job seekers began queuing outside the Cork Medical Centre in Mahon from 8am for the walk-in recruitment event which began at noon and ran over by almost two hours.
The €90 million centre, operated by Sheehan Medical, was officially opened last October.
It employs 50 people, and ultimately plans to employ 525.
The recruitment day on Saturday was held to fill 100 clinical positions in nursing, theatre, radiology, laboratory and pharmacy, ahead of the opening of its operating theatres on March 14.
One nurse will be assigned to each of the centre’s 73 beds.
Chief operating officer Philip Sheehan, thanked all those who attended.
“We will be starting the interview process as soon as possible and hope to have the positions filled very shortly.
“We aim to have people from the second stage of recruitment on-board by the end of February, in advance of our main operating theatres open for in-patients in March.”
Up to 75 doctors will be leasing space in the hospital over the coming weeks, bringing with them an extra 100 ancillary staff.
And more jobs will be created when the hospital’s oncology services, executive health screening unit, stress test unit, and cath labs come on stream.
Cork Medical Centre has 73 single in-patient bedrooms, fully sealed with the latest in infection control, four operating theatres, and a same-day surgery centre with 20 out-patient beds.
While Aviva and Quinn are already providing insurance cover for their clients attending the hospital, talks with the VHI are at a very advanced stage and a positive announcement is expected soon.
Read more: http://www.examiner.ie/ireland/almost-500-compete-for-100-jobs-at-new-hospital-142988.html#ixzz1Bz3Ze9iTIt employs 50 people, and ultimately plans to employ 525.
The recruitment day on Saturday was held to fill 100 clinical positions in nursing, theatre, radiology, laboratory and pharmacy, ahead of the opening of its operating theatres on March 14.
One nurse will be assigned to each of the centre’s 73 beds.
Chief operating officer Philip Sheehan, thanked all those who attended.
“We will be starting the interview process as soon as possible and hope to have the positions filled very shortly.
“We aim to have people from the second stage of recruitment on-board by the end of February, in advance of our main operating theatres open for in-patients in March.”
Up to 75 doctors will be leasing space in the hospital over the coming weeks, bringing with them an extra 100 ancillary staff.
And more jobs will be created when the hospital’s oncology services, executive health screening unit, stress test unit, and cath labs come on stream.
Cork Medical Centre has 73 single in-patient bedrooms, fully sealed with the latest in infection control, four operating theatres, and a same-day surgery centre with 20 out-patient beds.
While Aviva and Quinn are already providing insurance cover for their clients attending the hospital, talks with the VHI are at a very advanced stage and a positive announcement is expected soon.
This appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Monday, January 24, 2011
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You may have heard or seen in the national news today the story regarding 100 jobs that have been announced at Cork Medical Centre private hospital in Cork, which is being carried on RTE TV and radio; RTE’s website http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0119/jobs-business.html; Newstalk; Red FM; and 96FM, as well as in The Irish Independent; The Examiner; and on TheJournal.ie etc. The roles that are being recruited are for clinical staff in the following departments: nursing, theatre, laboratory, radiology, and pharmacy.
There is a Recruitment Open Day for clinical staff being held at Cork Medical Centre this Saturday, 22nd January, between 12pm and 3pm. Where you can bring along your CVs, meet the management and tour the facility.
If, however, you can’t attend the recruitment day in person then that’s no problem, just send your CVs to Siobhan Kennedy, HR Manger to hr@corkmedicalcentre.com.
Cork Medical Centre is based in the City Gate development, which is adjacent to the Mahon Shopping Centre in Cork City, two minutes from the South Ring and Jack Lynch Tunnel.
For further details please call 021 601 3200 or go to http//:www.corkmedicalcentre.com
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Cork Medical Centre (CMC)
The atrium of the Cork Medical Centre, Mahon, Cork.
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For anyone that missed it, here is the coverage of the Global Flood Solutions deal from the Irish Times yesterday.
4th January, 2011.
Global Flood Solutions bag's UK deal - The Irish Times coverage (click on image to zoom for more details).
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