A NORTHWEST Mayo company is due to begin recruiting “immediately” for 20 new posts in healthcare manufacturing.
Bioshell Teo was established in Dublin by John Raftery and Reiner Escweny in 1996, and relocated to its current base in the north Mayo Gaeltacht five years later. It currently employs 25 people, making a wide range of vitamin and mineral supplements for an international market.
The company specialises in sports nutrition and traditional herbal medicine products, and was granted a manufacturer’s authorisation by the Irish Medicines Board last month.
The new certification allows the company to increase its product range and expand into the pharmaceutical market, according to Údarás na Gaeltachta which has supported the company.
The company has been based in Ceathrú Thaidhg and recently established an additional manufacturing space in the Údarás na Gaeltachta industrial park in Belmullet.
“Bioshell is expanding to meet the growth in demand in the sports nutrition and food supplement market,” Mr Eschwey said.
“The new facility provided by Údarás na Gaeltachta in Belmullet will allow us to undertake our expansion plans and increase production and capacity, ensuring that our business can grow into the future.”
The company is recruiting for eight new posts in validation, quality control, information technology and production, while the remaining positions will be recruited over the next two years.
Elsewhere, a survey among third-level students in the west region reports that three out of four believe they will start their own business within five years of leaving college.
An interview training organisation, SliNuaCareers.com, conducted the survey at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology’s annual graduate fair.