Bord Gáis seeks rise in pricesBord Gáis, the State-owned gas provider, has approached the energy regulator with an application for big rise in the price of…Mon May 08 2006 - 01:00
Green may convert into real estate investment fundGreen Property chairman and managing director Stephen Vernon has raised the prospect of converting the company into a real estate…Fri May 05 2006 - 01:00
JetBird places €222m order for executive jetsA new private jet company controlled by Irish financier Dómhnal Slattery has placed orders for 100 executive jets costing some…Thu May 04 2006 - 01:00
Minister to give ComReg new powers of enforcementMinister for Communications Noel Dempsey is moving to increase the powers of ComReg to take enforcement actions in the courts…Fri Apr 28 2006 - 01:00
New stores help Tesco power aheadSupermarket group Tesco has raced ahead in the Irish market, with the relentless opening of new stores helping to push annual…Wed Apr 26 2006 - 01:00
Authority examines Mayo waste allegationThe Competition Authority has begun an investigation into the waste sector in Mayo following claims that the business was being…Wed Apr 26 2006 - 01:00
SanDisk shifts headquarters unit to DublinA fast-growing Californian company that makes MP3 players and invented "flash" high-density memory cards for digital cameras …Wed Apr 26 2006 - 01:00
ADM Londis valued at €38.5m as profits increase 62%The ADM Londis wholesale and convenience store business has been valued at nearly €38Tue Apr 25 2006 - 01:00
Due diligence of Eircom to beginAustralian investment fund Babcock & Brown and the Eircom employee share ownership trust (Esot) have begun their due diligence…Tue Apr 25 2006 - 01:00
Oil prices fall back as investors begin to take profitsOil prices fell yesterday after setting a fresh all-time high above $74 (€60) a barrel as some investors took profits across …Fri Apr 21 2006 - 01:00
SWS plans to raise €500m to grow firmBandon-based group SWS plans three acquisitions this year to expand its energy and business outsourcing units in advance of a…Wed Apr 19 2006 - 01:00
O'Brien targets $1bn Digicel revenueBusinessman Denis O'Brien has projected that his Caribbean mobile group Digicel, which has more than two million subscribers, …Wed Apr 12 2006 - 01:00
Walsh jets in from new life at British AirwaysIMI conference: Deadpan talking. Willie Walsh took a flight home from London early yesterday on Aer Lingus, his old airlineSat Apr 08 2006 - 01:00
Staff key to airline's pension 'solution'Aer Lingus: Staff in Aer Lingus will have to make a contribution help address the airline's multimillion-euro pension deficit…Fri Apr 07 2006 - 01:00
Call for private recruits to public sectorProductivity: The most senior official in the Civil Service has said he would welcome the recruitment of more managers from …Fri Apr 07 2006 - 01:00
Asian expansion could destabilise middle classAsian economies: The rise of the Chinese and Indian economies has the potential to threaten "middle class society" in the same…Fri Apr 07 2006 - 01:00
Dixons brand to migrate to internetDixons owner DSG International prompted considerable surprise yesterday when it said the brand name will be removed from its …Thu Apr 06 2006 - 01:00
Virgin's Irish unit back in the blackThe Irish unit of Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Megastore group, the third largest music retailer by sales, has returned to the…Thu Apr 06 2006 - 01:00
Sale of SteelTrace to earn staff €3mUp to 20 staff and founding shareholders in Dublin software firm SteelTrace will share in a windfall of more than €3 million …Wed Apr 05 2006 - 01:00
Number of jobs lost rises in first quarterThe number of jobs lost in the first three months of the year rose by more than a third compared with the same period last year…Tue Apr 04 2006 - 01:00
Musgrave, DCC in joint approach for StatoilMusgrave, the grocery wholesaler, and industrial holding group DCC are preparing a joint approach for the Statoil network of …Sat Apr 01 2006 - 01:00
Losses at drug firm EiRx rise 49%Cork-based healthcare company EiRx Therapeutics, which is developing drugs to treat colorectal cancer, has raised £1Sat Apr 01 2006 - 01:00
US indicts second former Cologne Re directorThe US authorities have indicted a second former director of Cologne Re, the IFSC-based Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary at the …Sat Apr 01 2006 - 01:00
Depfa chiefs paid over €44mThe top managers and directors of Depfa Bank, the Dublin-based but Frankfurt-listed bank, were paid more than €44 million last…Fri Mar 31 2006 - 01:00
Authority urges financial penaltiesThe Competition Authority has called on the Government to introduce a system of financial penalties for civil breaches of competition…Fri Mar 31 2006 - 01:00
Cowen initiates review of stamp duty on CFDsMinister for Finance Brian Cowen has prepared the ground for the Government to rule out the imposition of stamp duty on contracts…Fri Mar 31 2006 - 01:00
Former Kerry footballer among 148 tax defaultersFormer Kerry footballer Jack O'Shea, one of the best-known GAA stars of his generation, has made a tax settlement for more than…Wed Mar 29 2006 - 01:00
Canadian Bank nets €324.3mThe Irish subsidiary of the Bank of Montreal, which has 15 staff, has accumulated €324Mon Mar 27 2006 - 01:00
Stock exchange seeks trade tax reviewThe stock exchange has urged the Department of Finance to review the tax treatment of contracts for difference (CFD) after the…Sat Mar 25 2006 - 00:00
Brokers face large stamp duty bills on CFDsDublin stockbroking firms face multi-million-euro tax bills after a Revenue move to seek retrospective payment, with interest…Fri Mar 24 2006 - 00:00
Broadstone hedge funds voluntarily delistedThree hedge funds managed by a company ordered to cease investment activity by the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority…Thu Mar 23 2006 - 00:00
Directors of oil cartel companies face banSome of the convicted members of a home-heating oil cartel in Galway city and county are facing disqualification for five years…Thu Mar 23 2006 - 00:00
Eircom suitor prepared to meet unionsEircom suitor Babcock & Brown has indicated its willingness to meet the company's staff after unions in the telco criticised…Thu Mar 23 2006 - 00:00
IN&M posts 41% rise in pretax profitsSir Anthony O'Reilly and three of his sons stand to receive dividends of more than €21Thu Mar 23 2006 - 00:00
Ruling is latest in litany of bad newsBertie Ahern's recurring nightmare came back again yesterday when the High Court ordered Dublin Waterworld, the company that …Wed Mar 22 2006 - 00:00
Eircom board meets to discuss terms of due diligenceThe board of Eircom meets today to discuss terms for a due diligence examination of its books by Babcock & Brown, the Australian…Wed Mar 22 2006 - 00:00
Regulator tells hedge fund firm to cease tradingThe Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority has ordered a Dublin company that manages three hedge funds on the Irish Stock…Wed Mar 22 2006 - 00:00
Babcock, Eircom close to deal on due diligenceEircom and Babcock & Brown are moving towards final discussions on the terms for a due diligence examination of the Irish…Tue Mar 21 2006 - 00:00
Imprint seeks to expand as profit surgesImprint, the British-listed recruitment group chaired by Irishman Pierce Casey, is on the hunt for acquisitions after an Irish…Sat Mar 18 2006 - 00:00
C&C makes gains as small volumes change handsSt Patrick might well have driven the stockbrokers from Ireland for all the action there was on the Dublin exchange yesterday…Sat Mar 18 2006 - 00:00
Bonus for Irish shareholders in VodafoneVodafone's 400,000 Irish shareholders will receive a small measure of relief when the mobile phone giant pays a once-off dividend…Sat Mar 18 2006 - 00:00
US company to invest €100m in Limerick plantUS multinational Johnson & Johnson, which employs around 2,000 people in Ireland, has promised to invest more than €100 million…Wed Mar 15 2006 - 00:00
IWP to pay its chairman's firm €240,000 to end leaseA company controlled by IWP founder and non-executive chairman Joe Moran will receive €240,000 from the heavily indebted cosmetics…Tue Mar 14 2006 - 00:00
Firm raises Eircom stakeAustralian investment fund Babcock & Brown Capital has increased its stake in Eircom to 28.8 per cent, just below the 29Tue Mar 14 2006 - 00:00
Musgrave group annual sales exceed €2.85bnThe two supermarket chains in the Cork-based Musgrave group, SuperValu and Centra, had combined sales last year of more than €…Tue Mar 14 2006 - 00:00
LBBW profits fall by 6.6% at Irish unitThe Dublin unit of Germany's fourth largest bank, Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, reported a 6Mon Mar 13 2006 - 00:00
Ahern reaffirms backing of Aer Lingus privatisationThe prospect of an initial public offering of Aer Lingus shares this summer or autumn appears to have moved a step closer after…Mon Mar 13 2006 - 00:00
Greencore seeks site rezoning in CarlowGreencore has asked officials in Carlow County Council to consider rezoning the 290-acre site of its former sugar factory in …Mon Mar 13 2006 - 00:00
Retailer Harvey Norman to open five new Irish storesThe Australian impact on Irish business is set to increase in the coming weeks after furniture and electrical retailer Harvey…Sat Mar 11 2006 - 00:00
Court to rule on whether to restrict Taggart as directorThe High Court will rule on Monday whether the businessman and former Doherty Advertising chairman, Paschal Taggart, should be…Sat Mar 11 2006 - 00:00
