Local Enterprise Office

Welcome to The 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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02/12/2020	LEOCOMP2 BrightStart - NEW NORMAL START-Ups Expression Of Interest - Carlow Participants ONLY...	Book online
03/12/2020	Carlow Craft PR	Book online
07/12/2020	LE6021 – Start Your Own Business – Is Self Employment for You ? ...	Book online
08/12/2020	#lookforlocal #shopCarlow Roadshow– KCLR Outside Broadcast – 08th December Potato Market...	Book online
10/12/2020	LE5023 Dec - Women in Business Meets - Management and HR ...	Book online
14/12/2020	LE5087 The Business Box Beginners Guide To Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) with the Marketing Crowd...	Book online
15/12/2020	#lookforlocal #shopCarlow Roadshow– KCLR Outside Broadcast – 15th December Seven Oaks ...	Book online

Latest News

01/12/2020
Put your Carlow Festive Experience in the picture and be in a chance to win €500 shopping spree in County Carlow....
Cathaoirleach , Cllr. Tom O’Neill was joined by Emmy Nolan at Arboretum Garden Centre to launch “Light Up Carlow – Photography Competition” which has a prize fund of €1,500 for 3 lucky winners....
30/11/2020
Over 27,500 people help local school children to share a message from Santa in the one week....
Over 27,500 people help local school children to share a message from Santa in the one week. ...
30/11/2020
#LookforLocal and #ShopCarlow
Shop local this Christmas - a new Government campaign to ‘Look For Local’ launched in Arboretum....
25/11/2020
20 jobs created immediately in Carlow by Halo Care...
Covid Restrictions Spur New Start-Up That Offers Revolutionary Solution to Senior Home Care 20 jobs created immediately in Carlow by Halo Care, which is committed to delivering care in the community and empowering senior adults to ‘Age in Place’....
25/11/2020
Click Green
Online shoppers urged to ‘Click Green, Buy Nearby’ this festive season to support businesses in Ireland...
23/11/2020
Santa School Message Competition 2020
County Carlow signs up twinning arrangement with North Pole but needs primary schools across the County to help to spread the word....
23/11/2020
How to get the most from your new website...
Carlow County Council’s – Local Enterprise Office has partnered up Carlow Kilkenny Skillnet and ConnectMe Marketing to offer the County Carlow Business Community an opportunity to take part in a new digital marketing training programme....
20/11/2020
Council welcomes €128,478 investment in County’s Enterprise Hubs...
Carlow County Council has today (20th November 2020) welcomed the announcement by the Tánaiste of €128,478 for two Enterprise Hubs in County Carlow....
18/11/2020
Festive Family Experience with a difference launched for 2020...
“The County Carlow – A Festive Family Experience has been reimagined this year” says Cllr. Tom O’Neill, Cathaoirleach of Carlow County Council announcing the programme for 2020 with a little help from Santa and Wibbly Wobbly Wendy in a secret location in County Carlow...
16/11/2020
Carlow company put expansion plan in the frame with pivot of business model online...
Carlow Native , Danny Barron aims to bring about a new era of online learning to previous exchange students who can no longer travel due to Covid with launch of new Online Learning Platform....
09/11/2020
Carlow Town has the potential and now it has the Vision
“Carlow Town has the potential and now it has the vision” are the words of Cllr. Fergal Browne, Mayor of Carlow Municipal District in launching the Masterplan for Carlow Town titled Project Carlow 2040....
09/11/2020
Creative Social Media essential for consumer facing companies during economic challenges...
“Creative social media is essential for consumer facing companies” says Colin Duggan , President of County Carlow welcoming a new programme of supports between County Carlow Chamber and Local Enterprise Office in Carlow County Council...
24/10/2020
Free advertising and support to SME business ...
Council announces partnerships to provide free advertising and support to SME business community in County Carlow ...
22/10/2020
RESTART GRANTS END DATE
IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING THE RESTART GRANT AND RESTART GRANT PLUS SCHEMES.
20/10/2020
South East remote working survey launched to help map future needs of remote workers in the South East...
Survey entrants are in with a chance to win €100 restaurant voucher in their county The Local Authorities and their Local Enterprise Offices are conducting essential research to understand the future needs of remote workers and to provide supports for Remote Working and Remote Working Start-ups in the South East. ...
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....