Our story on Simply Zesty, the Irish the digital and social media agency, that is bucking the economic trend by winning a host of new international clients, made the Business section of The Irish Times today. It was covered by leading technology and business journalist John Collins. If you would like to read the article on The Irish Times’s website then please click here, otherwise the article has been pasted in below for your convenience. The story received an incredible 106 Tweets directly from The Irish Times’s article and subsequently numerous Re-Tweets of those Tweets on Twitter itself.
Social media agency Simply Zesty wins four new international clients
Niall Harbison and Lauren Fisher founders of Simply Zesty
JOHN COLLINS
DUBLIN-BASED social media agency Simply Zesty has won four new international clients and employment at the firm has increased to 25.
The new clients are pan-European online travel agency Ebookers; data analytics firm Teradata, Russian anti-virus software specialist Kaspersky Lab; and Eurofound, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.
We invited TV3′s Morning Show and presenter Sybil Mulcahy up to Taekwon-do Grandmaster Robert Howard’s ‘dojang’ (Korean for school) in Cabra this week for a demonstration on the skills of Taekwon-do.
Grandmaster Howard talked about his promotion in North Korea and showed that at 73 he’s lost little of prowess. Some of his younger more nimble students did the more complicated kicks and punches including a smashing of brick with one punch and the breaking of up to ten tiles with flying kicks. They were even able to break tiles just with their wrists, thus proving that any part of your body can be used to defend yourself.
Sybils was a great sport and even held board as it was broken by Grandmaster Howard’s seven year old grandson Finn.
The Roscommon flood protection company, Global Flood Solutions, supplies the Big Bags Defence System worldwide and were recently called upon to protect the World’s largest wastewater treatment facility in Washington DC from Hurricane Irene.
Here is an amusing piece that appeared in The Irish Daily Mail today.
This morning Taekwon-do Grandmaster Robert Howard was interview in the studio for the Tom Dunne Show on Newstalk. Whilst in the studio he also did a demonstration of smashing tiles with his hands. You can listen back to the interview here.
This photo appears on Page 3 of today’s Irish Times. I love this photo, it shows the leaders of the Girls Friendly Society, a Christian organisation for girls, in the traditional dresses of their respective countries, gathered at The King’s Hospital School in Dublin.
The school is my client and this a great example of a simple photo story that can be very effective. The idea for the photo was sold into the photo desk who sent out a photographer. The newspaper gets a great photo, the school gets great profile, the GFS get free PR and it takes a minimum amount of time from all parties to sort.
Traditional costumes at The King's Hospital School in Dublin (click to zoom).
It was the first day of the Leaving Cert exams all over Ireland yesterday and as part of their Exam Times, a big feature on the exams, The Irish Times sent one of their photographers into the King’s Hospital School boarding school in Dublin to get some shots of the exams.
The attraction of the King’s Hospital is it has a gymnasium above the main hall that has a glass wall so the photographer was able to look down on the exam hall and take photos unobtrusively so that he didn’t disturb the exams.
Please click on the photo in order to zoom in if you like to look in more detail.
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.
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.
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.
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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