Insurance firm to create 100 jobs in Dublin
Blue Insurance has today pledged to create 100 new jobs in Dublin over the next two years.
The company will be employing staff across numerous departments including call centre customer services, IT developers, junior management, and administrative levels in their Dublin office.
This expansion will see their employment numbers rise from 45 to 145 employees.
The Irish company was formed in October 2003, has 160,000 existing Irish customers and over 200,000 UK customers across its 14 brands uch as Multitrip.com, gadgetinsurance.com, carhireexcess.com and petinsurance.ie.
Welcoming the announcement, Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton TD, said: "This is fantastic news for Blanchardstown and the surrounding area with 100 new jobs being created as part of Blue Insurance’s expansion.
"Blue Insurance is an indigenous company that is competing and winning in the most competitive and sophisticated online insurance market globally, the UK. It is a young company that rewards its employees for imaginative thinking.
"It has shown its ability to be innovative, and to respond rapidly to changing market needs. Under Ciaran Mulligan’s leadership, and with the strong team he has built around him, the potential for this company is enormous."
Minister for Health Leo Varadkar commented: "Blue Insurance is a real Irish success story both locally in Blanchardstown, and nationally.
"This is clearly an innovative company which identified a niche in the market and made a success of it. Ireland’s future economic recovery will be built on the backbone of SMEs like Blue Insurance.”
At the launch, Ciaran Mulligan, managing director of Blue Insurance spoke of the company’s expansion:"We are delighted to announce 100 new jobs which will facilitate our rapid growth and expansions plans in the insurance market over the coming years.
"These new jobs will help our existing business, our new unique personal lines products and will drive further International expansion in the UK, Australian, UAE and US Markets”.
"The new jobs will assist us with our commitment to deliver value, quality and innovation to all our customer for many years to come."
