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Crafts retail website Etsy to open European HQ in Dublin

The popular marketplace website is to open an office in the Digital Hub.

THE AMERICAN online marketplace website Etsy is to open an office in Dublin.

The popular website will open a new headquarters in the Digital Hub.

The Brooklyn-headquartered website will use the Irish office as its headquarters for the Europe, Middle East and African (EMEA) regions.

The office will commence operations next month, and will offer customer support, sales, engineering and HR facilities.

Etsy’s lead for the Dublin site, Bernadette Sweeney, siad the Digital Hub was a “hothouse for new ideas, energetic entrepreneurs and technological innovation,” making it an ideal place to set up an office.

Etsy has a cult following worldwide, and claims over 800,000 active sellers who sell to people with 22 million user accounts.

In 2012, the site facilitated the sale of products worth $895 million (€663 million).

The communications minister Pat Rabbitte said Etsy had been attracted to Dublin by “our young, highly-skilled and creative workforce”.

“Etsy has a lot to offer the city – and the Irish economy overall. It is operating in a creative online space; it is a high-profile, well-established and successful business; and it has plans to expand its Irish operations in the near future.”

Digital Hub CEO Philip Flynn said the majority of the companies based in the facility “blend creativity with technical skills to deliver online goods and services”, similar to the model being pursued by Etsy.

He said the move for Etsy was the result of two years of negotiations between the Digital Hub, Etsy and IDA Ireland.

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    Mute Shane Farrell
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    Jan 29th 2013, 7:21 PM

    Etzellent news.

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    Mute Liz (10) (^_^)
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    Jan 29th 2013, 8:04 PM

    Would love a job from them

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    Mute Dorothy T. Murphy
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    Jan 29th 2013, 8:52 PM

    Me too!

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    Mute Liz in Dublin
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    Jan 29th 2013, 8:56 PM

    As would I! I spend enough money on it…

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    Mute Irish Cufflinks
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    Jan 29th 2013, 9:01 PM

    Meant to post the above comment on our Cufflinks profile !

    We use ETSY for our Cufflinks & the majority of sales come from the US on ETSY. Its is a very popular with shoppers in the states & seems to be growing at a good rate. For small shop owners in Ireland who cannot afford a website, nor have the knowledge having ETSY setting up in Ireland is very positive as they be encouraged to set up a shop. Ireland needs money & ETSY can help craft makers in Ireland export their goods. Has to be positive?

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    Mute Kieran Crosbie Staunton
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    Jan 29th 2013, 7:22 PM

    Never heard of them before… but having such a huge company come to Ireland is brilliant

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    Mute Sean Smith
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    Jan 29th 2013, 8:24 PM

    No Pat Rabbitte they didn’t come because of highly skilled workforce they came to dodge taxes , the highly skilled workforce is a bonus

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    Mute Bilbo Baggins
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    Jan 29th 2013, 9:12 PM

    The ability to poach experienced staff from the likes of eBay and Amazons EMEA hq’s is reason enough to move here. If it was just the tax rate they’d be in Luxemburg.

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    Mute Nikolas Koehler
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    Jan 29th 2013, 9:27 PM

    The function of any company is to increase shareholder value. That’s no conspiracy, it’s common sense. If Ireland is able to offer effective incentives to entice companies to set up shop here, then good. Of course a company will choose where it sets up shop based on the benefits that country offers. Again, common sense. Job creation = good. A company and it’s employees contributing to the Irish economy = good. I can understand that people are less than happy in this country, but Ai don’t understand what people persist in trying to find a dark cloud behind every silver lining. Do people want this country to fail and to never recover? Can anyone give me an example of where griping bitterness and universal pessimism lead to either a economic or emotional upturn in a country?

    We’re Irish. We’re good at doing misery, with all the wailing and gnashing to teeth that goes along with it. Point proved. But it’s not going to help us any. It’s just begrudgery to the point where we’re blinded by anything good in our lives at all. Could we all just call a truce and agree to avoid the directionless whinging?

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    Mute Jenny Miller
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    Jan 30th 2013, 12:46 AM

    Here here!

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    Mute Lisa Whelan
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    Jan 29th 2013, 8:48 PM

    Agh I love etsy. :) love handmade stuff :) and yeay for jobs!!

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    Jan 30th 2013, 8:34 AM

    Excellent news for Dublin and Ireland! I ? Etsy

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