{"id":474572,"date":"2026-05-30T10:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/474572\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T10:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:46:11","slug":"cork-firm-invests-e6m-to-upskill-staff-and-upgrade-little-island-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/474572\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork firm invests \u20ac6m to upskill staff and upgrade Little Island facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Little Island-based pharmaceutical manufacturer Cara Partners has announced a new \u20ac6m programme aimed at upskilling employees and supporting a step change in capability at its Cork facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The training and development initiative will run over three years, enhancing multi product capability, strengthening technical and operational skills, and building leadership and change management capacity to support continued growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cara Partners has operated in Little Island since 1978 and forms part of the Schwabe Group, headquartered in Karlsruhe in Germany, and a global provider of natural health solutions including plant-based medicines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Training will be delivered in collaboration with a range of academic and professional partners, including the Irish Management Institute, IBEC Academy, University College Cork, Munster Technological University, Irish Manufacturing Research, Trinity College Dublin and Skillnet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Michael Lohan, CEO of IDA Ireland said Cara Partners commitment to upskilling and leadership development \u201cstrengthens the capability of its Cork site and underpins its future growth in the region.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u00a0Minister of state Jerry Buttimer said that by investing in structured, high quality training, Cara Partners is helping to ensure that valuable skills are developed and retained locally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Little Island-based pharmaceutical manufacturer Cara Partners has announced a new \u20ac6m programme aimed at upskilling employees and supporting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,4257,79,61,60],"class_list":["post-474572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cork-business","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}