It has agreed a three-year contract with Glasgow-based Response UK to provide call centre staff handling its gas and electricity account holders.
First Minister Alex Salmond unveiled the fund at the Renewable UK 2010 conference in Glasgow.
The EC move is a triumph for Margo Cameron, from Glasgow, who formed Silicone Support UK, after she became ill following silicone injections in her lips.
Meanwhile the summit of UK tourism ministers in Glasgow chaired by Scottish tourism minister Alasdair Morrison is expected to discuss calls for Chancellor Gordon Brown to plough extra resources into hotel and catering firms under pressure from the knock-on effects of foot-and-mouth.
About 250 UK posts are at risk, including 85 in Glasgow and 10 in Edinburgh, following a "comprehensive review" of its UK operations.
The design of the Glasgow baton and the route around the UK will be released later in the year.
Glasgow was among 30 cities in the UK bidding for the money, with the shortlist including London, Peterborough and Bristol.
The company has UK offices in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Runcorn and Hull.
Ms Daly said thousands of people from Northern Ireland have been travelling to Glasgow and other Ikea stores in the UK over the past few years.
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Directed by the prolific Michael Winterbottom, it had its first UK screening in February at the Glasgow Film Festival.
The apparent lack of interest in running a station in Glasgow or Edinburgh will be a disappointment to UK Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who has long championed the concept of local TV.
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Earlier this week, Glasgow Airport also blamed low visibility and snow at other UK airports for a slight fall in its January traffic.
There are ones dotted over the UK in Manchester, Sheffield, Bath and Glasgow for example but, while these facilities are truly excellent, they are too few and far between.
It emerged earlier this month that the UK Border Agency had cancelled the contract with Glasgow City Council after the two sides disagreed over the level of funding required to meet the asylum seekers' housing needs.
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Organisers said that 12, 000 marchers from all over the UK and Ireland took part in a parade in Glasgow, with a similar number in Larkhall.
Whether it is contemporary, classical, Celtic or Country, Glasgow has some of the most famous music venues in the UK and a thriving music industry.
Menzies previously restructured its struggling UK cargo business by getting out of operations at Glasgow, Birmingham, East Midlands and Manchester airports, to focus on a single facility at London's Heathrow.
Last week, Chancellor George Osborne, told an audience of business people in Glasgow it was "highly unlikely" the rest of the UK would agree to a currency union with an independent Scotland.
Later that year, UK medical magazine The Lancet published research from two Glasgow-based public health experts who thought the craze could be an urban myth as they had never met anyone who had eaten one.
Economic change in recent decades has made London less reliant on other parts of the UK, and now cities such as Leeds, or Glasgow, look to the spin-out effects of the overheated London financial sector.
The Scottish leg of the UK and European qualifying heats will be held on 9 June at Glasgow's new Emirates Arena.
Martin Johnson, director of the UK Thalidomide Trust, and Professor Ray Stokes, of the University of Glasgow, are preparing to publish a book after investigating Thalidomide's possible Nazi origins.
In the last five years, the UK has hosted more than 120 world and European status events, and Glasgow is now ranked ninth in the SportBusiness Ultimate Sports City table.
The airport blamed disruption caused by low visibility and snow at other UK airports, which resulted in the loss of 8, 000 passengers at Glasgow.
The 4G rollout, which offers customers speeds up to five times faster than 3G, is proving a huge success with UK businesses, including Addison Lee, Foxtons, Gatwick Airport, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Kier, Microsoft, Morrisons, Sony Music, TNT Post and Urban Outfitters, who are already reaping the benefits of increased efficiencies and productivity both in and out of the office.
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The Glasgow analysis is that oil and gas production added 0.4% of contraction to the UK economy last year.
The group employs more than 7, 000 staff in the UK, with sites in Hampshire, Worcestershire, Wiltshire, Portsmouth, Devon, Glasgow and Dorset.
In subsequent programmes Hardeep visits Glasgow and Leicester before reflecting on what he's learnt about culture and faith in the UK through the lens of these three cities.
However, even the only doctor in the UK to use the treatment, Dr Alisdair MacConnachie from the Gartnavel General Hospital in Glasgow, says it's a last resort and quite frankly "disgusting".
In the 2001 census, nearly half of people in Glasgow Springburn said they did not have any educational qualifications - the fourth highest figure in the UK - and almost two thirds said they had no car - second only to neighbouring Shettleston.
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