Smart Storage, a company that secured funding on the 2012 series of Dragon's Den, is to create 100 jobs here and in the UK.
The Co Wicklow-based company supplies and installs home storage across Ireland and the UK. It already employs 50 people.
In the past few months it has been awarded design patents in Europe, the US and Canada which should give it scope for expansion into new markets in the coming months.
60 of the new jobs will be in Ireland and they are in the areas of sales, marketing, logistics, operations and manufacturing. Another 40 will be based in the UK.
Smart Storage fitted over 5,500 units across Ireland and the UK in 2015.
It said that while it will continue to service and grow its Irish customer base, it plans to grow its UK operations further.
"Our product can fit into 11.5 million homes across the UK and Ireland. With these new hires we will have a greater capacity to fit storage units into more and more homes in Ireland and across the UK," the company's founder and managing director Paul Jacob added.
He said the company is currently working with a number of large home builders in the Irish and UK markets, including Flynn & O’Flaherty in the Phoenix Park where they have plans to build approximately 400 homes, Westin Homes in Maynooth and Bray and Hartford Homes in the UK and the Isle of Mann.
Sligo's LotusWorks promises 100 new jobs by the end of 2017
Meanwhile, a Sligo specialist technical and engineering firm is to create 100 new jobs by the end of 2017.
LotusWorks currently employs 470 people in Sligo and today announced the creation of 50 new jobs over the next six months, with another 50 jobs to come on stream by the end of 2017.
The company doubled revenue in 2015 and within the past two months, two new contracts have been signed with major clients in the data centre and automotive sectors.
This has resulted in the need to add 50 talented engineers and technicians to the team within the next six months, the company said.
