Local Enterprise Office

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Welcome to Local Enterprise Office Carlow

Please note that in the Interest of Public Health & Safety – Carlow - Local Enterprise Office is operating its services remotely and only conducting essential business Face to Face.

For an appointment to meet a Business Advisor please contact enterprise@Carlowcoco.ie or call 059-9129783

The public counter is open in Enterprise House from 11am-1pm & 2pm-3pm on Monday-Friday (Excluding Bank Holidays) for the scheduling of appointments only.

Upcoming Events

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27/10/2021	LE6019 The Profit Academy 27th Oct 2021	Book online
03/11/2021	LE5003 Management Development Business Coaching Programme (MDBCP) 2021...	Book online
09/11/2021	LE6022 - Start Your Own Business Programme - 9th November 2021...	Book online
10/11/2021	LE5117–Enable My Business on a Budget -Emerging IT Tools –Unison Business Series 10.11.2021...	Book online
02/12/2021	Trading Online Voucher Scheme 2nd Dec 2021	Book online

Latest News

15/10/2021
Local Enterprise Office partners with Chamber for series of business supports. ...
Carlow County Councils – Local Enterprise Office and County Carlow Chamber have partnered up to provide a series of new business supports for the County Carlow business community during 2021 ...
08/10/2021
Soil Sampling Programme
IAS Laboratories to partner in €10,000,000 government contract...
08/10/2021
Helping Carlow Businesses Prepare for "Working from Home"...
Carlow businesses will need to examine their business model and prepare for the changes that will come with their employees working from home on a more permanent basis...
27/09/2021
National Womens Enterprise Day Open for Carlows Entrepreneurs...
Female entrepreneurs and budding businesswomen from across Carlow are being encouraged to look to the future and register for this year’s National Women’s Enterprise Day after the line up for the event was announced....
24/09/2021
Profit Academy-Assisting SMEs back to profit in post pandemic Carlow...
“The growth and sustainable development of businesses in Carlow as they emerge from the pandemic depends on their understanding of their financial strengths and weaknesses” says Cllr. Fintan Phelan, Cathaoirleach of Carlow County Council...
14/09/2021
IRISH CONSUMERS RESPOND FOR CALL TO LOOK FOR LOCAL...
14/09/2021
NATIONAL WOMEN’S ENTERPRISE DAY TO FOCUS ON BUILDING THE FUTURE...
The free event, titled “Build The Future”, takes place online on the 7th October and will feature some of Ireland’s best known female entrepreneurs including the likes of Aimee Connolly of Sculpted by Aimee, Rachel Doyle of The Arboretum and Sharon Keegan of Peachy Lean, who was recently supported on Dragon’s Den UK....
14/09/2021
Put your business in the spotlight with KCLR & Local Enterprise Office Competition ...
Would you like to put your business in the spotlight ? ...
10/09/2021
Amplify - A unique Online recurring Revenue Programme...
A unique Online Recurring Revenue Programme has been announced to prepare Carlow SMEs to launch and scale their online membership and subscription offer...
11/08/2021
Streetscape Enhancement Scheme 2021
€220,000 opportunity for four communities to paint the town red with new Colour Carlow – Streetscape Enhancement scheme....
15/07/2021
Optimization Plus
How much Money is your business throwing in the bin?...
07/07/2021
POWERHOUSE Network Opportunities for Carlow Women in Business 2...
The second online event titled “Going Beyond - Developing a Growth Mindset in your Business” will take place on the July 23rd 2021....
14/06/2021
Tánaiste Opens Funding Scheme to Help Businesses with Fixed Costs...
Small Business Assistance Scheme for COVID (SBASC) open from today for applications from both SMEs & microenterprises
14/06/2021
POWERHOUSE Network Opportunities for Carlow Women in Business...
County Carlow has a new Women in Business Network called “Powerhouse” which is being co-ordinated by the team in Carlow County Council’s – Local Enterprise Office...
09/06/2021
New Sales Development Support announced for Food, Drink, Tourism and Hospitality businesses in County Carlow...
Carlow County Council’s Local Enterprise Office in partnership with Carlow Tourism today launched the Sales Development Programme for County Carlow Food, Drink, Hospitality and Tourism businesses - to help them entice and welcome back their customers and optimize their revenue for the second half of 2021....
04/09/2014
Local Enterprise Office Launches New Loan Partnership
The Local Enterprise Office Carlow is teaming up with Microfinance Ireland, to launch a new type of loan support aimed at the small business community in the region....
18/08/2014
Showcase 2015
Local Enterprise Office –Carlow is seeking expressions of interest from clients engaged in the craft, design and gift sector interested in taking a stand in the Enterprise Zone at Showcase 18th – 21st January 2015. ...
14/08/2014
New Frontiers Programme 2014
Waterford Institute of Technology and the Institute of Technology Carlow are currently recruiting for their next New Frontiers Programme....
25/07/2014
Form Group to Exhibit at Kilkenny Arts Festival...
FORM is a group of designer makers and craftspeople living and working in the Carlow region of Ireland...
03/07/2014
Applications open for national scheme to help Small Businesses trade online...
From today, 1 July 2014, small businesses throughout Ireland can apply to the government for digital vouchers to the system in helping their businesses trade online....
30/06/2014
Gothic Castle stages Business Picnic to make connections happen...
Duckett’s Grove Castle just outside Carlow Town will be the venue for the second Business Picnic being held on Wednesday 23rd July 2014 hosted by Carlow & Wexford Local Enterprise Offices and partners....
13/06/2014
Time to GROW your Business
ManagementWorks is an initiative from the State Company Skillnets, under the Governments Action Plan for Jobs, aimed at providing Owners Managers/Managers of Small and Medium size Businesses with practical, impactful programmes that will make a real difference to them and to that of their business....
13/06/2014
Minister Rabbitte rolls out whole of Government scheme to support local businesses trading online...
Minister for Communications, Pat Rabbitte T.D., this evening brought together Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) from around the country for the first time to upskill their Staff, Mentors and Business Advisors on the important aspects of small business trading online....
23/05/2014
New craft network launched in Carlow...
A new craft network, called FORM, was launched this week (14/05/2014) at a reception at VISUAL, Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow. The network consists of 12 established designer makers, who create high quality home ware, gifts and wearable pieces. ...
14/04/2014
Local Enterprise Office opened for business...
The Local Enterprise Office is a new national resource, staffed with professional people with business training, to assist budding entrepreneurs and existing businesses in every county in Ireland....

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Case Studies

26/11/2020
Woodford Dolmen Hotel
Five years ago, one of Carlow’s longest-established hotels, the Woodford Dolmen, was in receivership. Today, despite the hardship of the lockdown and the difficulties faced by the hospitality sector, it has more than doubled its staff to 105 and added a fourth star to its rating certification....
26/11/2020
Rea's Department Store
Some businesses make a town, and Rea’s Department Store is one of them. A fixture of Bagenalstown since 1958, Rea’s has welcomed generations of shoppers for over half a century....
26/11/2020
Cullens Nurseries
Cullen Nurseries’ roots run old and deep. In 1994, owner Robert Cullen, fresh from Multyfarnham Agricultural College in Co Westmeath, began his own small-scale landscaping business with his father Peter. Soon the pair branched out into forestry and hedging....
26/11/2020
CIELS
People tend to think of family-run businesses as farms and corner shops, not language schools. For Danny Barron, however, teaching English is a family business, and one that’s scaling fast....
10/12/2019
Paint Hub
If blood is thicker than water, in the Gaynor family, paint is thicker still....
10/12/2019
Little Crew - PreStart
There’s an old-world charm to wooden toys. They’re sturdy and designed with care; they’re simple and straightforward, perfect for imagining and pretending; and unlike their mass-produced plastic counterparts, they don’t run out of batteries (or make noise)....
10/12/2019
Jo Browne
When asked how it all began, Jo Browne goes back to when she was 10 years old, recalling how her sister-in-law gave her a ‘solid’ perfume from Greece. She fell in love with it. She stayed loyal to solid perfume as she grew up and amassed a collection from all over the world....
10/12/2019
Equinox
Noel and Tomoko Doyle first met while studying in the UK. They began a relationship soon after and moved to Tomoko’s home country of Japan....
10/12/2019
Butlers Organic Eggs
A happier hen makes a fresher egg—that’s according to David and Paula Butler, the owners of Butler’s Organic Eggs, a Hacketstown-based chicken farm that specialises in the production of organic eggs....
21/12/2017
The Story behind our Clients
21/12/2017
Smyth and O'Reilly
Silver Spear Gin is the inaugural product by Artisan Irish Distillers Smyth & O’Reilly which they launched to market in 2017. The distillery is located at Ballydarton House in Carlow and it is run by Gavin O’Reilly and husband and wife team Charles and Dawn Smyth. The brand is built on an extremely interesting and unique history which adds authenticity, prov- idence and heritage to their brand story and with the support of Local Enterprise Off ice Carlow and others along the way they are now successfully exporting this fantastic artisan product internationally from their base here in Carlow....