Waterford granted reprieve by lenders as investment discussions continueWATERFORD WEDGWOOD’S lenders have granted a reprieve to the beleaguered luxury goods firm, extending for another week their forbearance…Sat Dec 13 2008 - 00:00
How the financial crash helped FTITHE GREAT crash of 2008 has been good to Jack Dunn, chief executive of US “event-driven” advisory firm FTI Consulting.Sat Dec 13 2008 - 00:00
Battle to maintain confidence in Irish beef produce abroadDAMAGE LIMITATION: THE DISCOVERY of potentially dangerous contaminants in a very small section of the national cattle herd presents…Wed Dec 10 2008 - 00:00
'No prospect' of insurers covering product recallCOMPENSATION CLAIMS: THERE IS no prospect that insurance companies engaged by pigmeat producers will compensate them for the…Wed Dec 10 2008 - 00:00
Lenihan resisting demands to extend bank guaranteeBANK DEMANDS for an extension to the two-year State guarantee scheme are being resisted by the Government amid a marked slowdown…Tue Dec 09 2008 - 00:00
O'Reilly likely to see his stake in Waterford halvedTHE 60 per cent stake in Waterford Wedgwood jointly held by Sir Anthony O'Reilly and his brother-in-law Peter Goulandris is likely…Sat Dec 06 2008 - 00:00
Waterford sees its pretax loss widen to €63.2mTROUBLED LUXURY goods firm Waterford Wedgwood, battling to recruit new investors after conceding failure last month in a €74.…Fri Dec 05 2008 - 00:00
Firm in court over waste dealsTHREE MEN have appeared before a Co Mayo court on charges arising from a Competition Authority investigation into the domestic…Thu Dec 04 2008 - 00:00
Private equity rivals exploring joint approachMEMBERS OF the Mallabraca private equity consortium, which is mulling a recapitalisation deal with Bank of Ireland, have explored…Thu Dec 04 2008 - 00:00
Waterford Wedgwood debt crisis worsensWATERFORD WEDGWOOD faces mounting pressure to recruit new investors after the firm's lenders suspended until Friday a test of…Tue Dec 02 2008 - 00:00
Government signals it is willing to recapitalise banksTHE GOVERNMENT has publicly signalled for the first time that it is willing to participate in a recapitalisation of the banking…Sat Nov 29 2008 - 00:00
Fund managers look abroad for bank supportIRISH FUND managers are campaigning in the international markets to drum up support for their plan to recapitalise the domestic…Fri Nov 28 2008 - 00:00
New plan to recapitalise Irish banks offered to LenihanTHE INVESTMENT subsidiaries of AIB, Irish Life Permanent and Bank of Ireland and a number of other Irish and international institutions…Thu Nov 27 2008 - 00:00
Meteor rise set to slow as recession hits homeEIRCOM CHIEF Rex Comb has signalled that the rapid expansion of its mobile arm Meteor is likely to lose pace in the coming months…Thu Nov 27 2008 - 00:00
US publisher stops taking new booksUS PUBLISHER Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a unit of Barry O'Callaghan's heavily-indebted Education Media and Publishing empire, …Thu Nov 27 2008 - 00:00
IN&M sees options narrow on sale of APNTHE OPTIONS for Independent News & Media's (IN&M) proposed sale of its 39Thu Nov 27 2008 - 00:00
Zara parent takes €4.6m dividendSPANISH FASHION giant Inditex took dividends totalling €4Wed Nov 26 2008 - 00:00
Bank gives Quinlan co-investor more timeBARCLAYS BANK has granted additional time to Derek Quinlan's co-investor in Citigroup's 42-storey tower block at Canary Wharf…Wed Nov 26 2008 - 00:00
Owners of property abroad to face scrutiny under Bill measureREVENUE CLAMPDOWN: THE OWNERS of property abroad are facing fresh Revenue scrutiny on whether any Irish tax is due on such assets…Fri Nov 21 2008 - 00:00
CGT to be charged on sale of buildingsPHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY: THE GOVERNMENT is changing the legislation that set up the new Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland to …Fri Nov 21 2008 - 00:00
Waterford Wedgwood gives up on bid to raise €74.1mTROUBLED LUXURY goods firm Waterford Wedgwood has conceded failure in its effort to raise the additional €74Tue Nov 18 2008 - 00:00
Kingspan warns operating profit will drop one-third this yearBUILDING MATERIALS and insulation company Kingspan has warned its operating profit will drop by one-third this year as a result…Tue Nov 18 2008 - 00:00
Aldi to open 35 new stores as part of €350m expansion planDISCOUNT SUPERMARKET chain Aldi is on track to make sales of €500 million this year, 20 per cent more than in 2007.Thu Nov 13 2008 - 00:00
Conrad hotel operator warns of 'difficult' conditionsTHE OPERATOR of the Conrad hotel in central Dublin, part-owned by developer Bernard McNamara, has warned of "difficult" market…Wed Nov 12 2008 - 00:00
Aer Lingus says it faces losses of €20m this yearAER LINGUS has told the market that it will continue to incur losses next year after stating that its operating loss in the current…Wed Nov 12 2008 - 00:00
Babcock encourages lead adviser to sell EircomBABCOCK BROWN Capital (BCM), the Australian investment fund that controls Eircom, has incentivised its lead corporate finance…Tue Nov 11 2008 - 00:00
Solicitors' insurance costs to rocketLAW FIRMS and sole practitioner solicitors, many of them already under severe pressure due to the collapse in the housing market…Tue Nov 11 2008 - 00:00
DCC warns sterling may hit profit riseINDUSTRIAL HOLDING company DCC has warned that the weakness of sterling, in which 60 per cent of its earnings are denominated…Tue Nov 11 2008 - 00:00
No State nominee indemnityTHE DEPARTMENT of Finance has said it sees no need for the Government to indemnify State appointees to the boards of financial…Tue Nov 11 2008 - 00:00
Babcock to give contract accountEIRCOM OWNER Babcock Brown Capital (BCM) is preparing to make a statement next week on the termination of the agreement under…Sat Nov 08 2008 - 00:00
IN&M subsidiary warns of fall in profitAPN, the Sydney-listed subsidiary of Sir Anthony O'Reilly's Independent News Media (INM), has warned that profit in the current…Sat Nov 08 2008 - 00:00
Irish operations of US firms made $48bn profit in 2005THE FULL scale of the profitability of US investment in Ireland has emerged for the first time in official data which shows that…Fri Nov 07 2008 - 00:00
O'Flaherty Holdings pays out dividend of €25mO'FLAHERTY HOLDINGS, which last month handed over its Volkswagen import franchise to the German auto company, paid a €25 million…Wed Nov 05 2008 - 00:00
Dunnes has no comment on sale claimDUNNES STORES last night declined to comment on claims by the retail workers' trade union Mandate that the supermarket operator…Wed Nov 05 2008 - 00:00
Ryanair expects to break even despite 77% pretax fallRYANAIR EXPECTS to break even in its current fiscal year following losses in the second six months after interim pretax profits…Tue Nov 04 2008 - 00:00
Unilever books once-off profit of €50.23m on plant closureCONSUMER GOODS giant Unilever has booked a once-off profit of €50Tue Nov 04 2008 - 00:00
Group warns of drop in earningsINDEPENDENT NEWS Media (INM), whose shares have dropped more than 70 per cent in the past 12 months, has warned of a marked deterioration…Sat Nov 01 2008 - 00:00
INM set to sell off its interests in AustraliaSIR ANTHONY O'Reilly's Independent News Media (INM) has signalled the end of its 20-year involvement in the Australian market…Sat Nov 01 2008 - 00:00
U2 Tower project held over for a yearTHE STATE development agency for Dublin's docklands is to postpone for at least a year the €200 million U2 Tower project at Britain…Fri Oct 31 2008 - 00:00
Babcock makes light of LIT approachBABCOCK BROWN Capital (BCM), the Australian investment fund that controls Eircom, has rubbished a takeover approach for its business…Fri Oct 31 2008 - 00:00
Brown Thomas pays owner €70m dividendLUXURY DEPARTMENT store chain Brown Thomas has paid out a €70 million dividend to Galen Weston, the Canadian billionaire who …Fri Oct 31 2008 - 00:00
Isle of Man firm makes preliminary approach to buy EircomAN ISLE of Man company has made a preliminary approach to buy out the Australian fund that controls Eircom, raising prospects…Thu Oct 30 2008 - 00:00
DCC appoints former-AG Byrne to boardINDUSTRIAL HOLDING company DCC plc has appointed as its incoming deputy chairman and senior independent director David Byrne …Wed Oct 29 2008 - 00:00
Eircom's chief pay package increases to €1.06mEIRCOM CHIEF Rex Comb saw the value of his remuneration package increase to Aus$2.09 million (€1Wed Oct 29 2008 - 00:00
Icelandic fashion king's sell-off may shrink retail rentsANALYSIS: BRITISH TYCOON Philip Green and private equity firms Texas Pacific, Permira and Alchemy are battling to buy out the…Fri Oct 17 2008 - 01:00
New global sell-off on fears of recessionWORLD MARKETS: IRISH STOCKS lost more than 6 per cent of their value amid a renewed sell-off on international markets as Federal…Thu Oct 16 2008 - 01:00
Reform development aid, says World BankWORLD BANK president Robert Zoellick has called for urgent reform of the global system for development aid, arguing that such…Tue Oct 14 2008 - 01:00
Treasury will invest only in 'healthy' banks, says head of bailout schemeA MAN could shave in the reflections from the shiny cars pulling into the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, where Neel Kashkari…Tue Oct 14 2008 - 01:00
World economy faces 'major slowdown'IMF WARNING: IMF MANAGING director Dominique Strauss-Kahn has warned that the world economy, already under pressure from high…Mon Oct 13 2008 - 01:00