Updated 12.55

More than 100 jobs have been created by two separate companies in Dublin.

65 new positions will come on stream in Dun Laoghaire with the opening of a new Tesco store.

The Tánaiste cut the ribbon at the supermarket at Park Pointe today, which will now employ a total of 82 people.

Christine Heffernan is Director of Corporate Affairs for Tesco: 

Tesco now employs 1,100 people in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown, and 15,000 people nationally.

The company will recruit senior accounting, finance, customer service and marketing professionals.

BioMarin

BioMarin announced this week that the European Commission has approved VIMIZIM, an enzyme replacement drug.

As part of work on that enzyme the company says it expects jobs at its manufacturing facility in Shanbally, Co. Cork to grow to 140 employees by 2015.

BioMarin expects to have a combined total employment of approximately 200 people in Ireland by the end of 2017.

James Lennertz, VP & GM BMIL and EUMEA Commercial Operations, BioMarin said “Ireland is an ideal business environment, which lets us focus on what we do best—targeting diseases like Morquio A syndrome that lack effective drug therapies and affect relatively few people, many of whom are children.”

Meanwhile, business solutions firm Voxpro has confirmed it is to recruit 350 staff for its Mahon, Cork facility.