Harcourt cuts pretax losses by 76% to €2.3mHarcourt Developments, the lead developer of the Titanic Quarter project in Belfast, has cut its pretax losses by more than 76…Thu Oct 20 2005 - 01:00
Investment firm buys 32% stake in SetantaInvestment house Benchmark Capital Europe has spent more than €30 million taking a stake of up to 32 per cent in the Setanta …Thu Oct 20 2005 - 01:00
Arnotts spending €100m on city centre propertiesDepartment store group Arnotts is spending up to €100 million on the purchase of retail units and other buildings in the immediate…Wed Oct 19 2005 - 01:00
Pettitt's supermarket chain joins SuperValuWexford-based independent supermarket chain Pettitt's has joined the SuperValu franchise network in a move that is projected …Wed Oct 19 2005 - 01:00
Profits at Merrill Lynch's IFSC unit rise by 17%The IFSC unit of the Wall Street bank Merrill Lynch has reported a sharp increase in pretax profits, which rose last year by …Wed Oct 19 2005 - 01:00
Martin held meetings with Groceries Order backersMinister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Micheál Martin has held a series of private meetings with Superquinn, the Musgrave…Sat Oct 15 2005 - 01:00
Dempsey threatens to remove An Post's monopolyThe Government is threatening to remove the final part of An Post's letter post monopoly if the Communications Workers' Union…Fri Oct 14 2005 - 01:00
Former Musgrave executive received €1m compensationFormer Musgrave executive Eoin McGettigan received €1Thu Oct 13 2005 - 01:00
Irish group sells London theatreThe Irish consortium that owns the Savoy luxury hotel chain in London has realised more than €10 million from the sale of the…Thu Oct 13 2005 - 01:00
M&S will open Newbridge storeMarks & Spencer (M&S) is pursuing the growing commuter market in Dublin's outskirts and has decided to open a store next…Wed Oct 12 2005 - 01:00
US firm in €1bn return from Irish unitA US multinational has taken a $1.26 billion (€1Wed Oct 12 2005 - 01:00
Pretax losses at Gresham chain hit €1.2mThe Gresham hotel chain went into the red last year with pretax losses of €1.21 million after exceptional charges of €3Tue Oct 11 2005 - 01:00
Merger activity 'remains high'Merger and acquisition activity involving Irish companies remained at a high level in the third quarter of 2005, with the value…Mon Oct 10 2005 - 01:00
Goodman books surplus of ?37m on property revaluationsBusinessman Larry Goodman has booked an unrealised surplus of more than €37 million after three of his investment properties …Mon Oct 10 2005 - 01:00
Directors of Depfa bank get €34m pay packageThe 13 directors of the IFSC-based Depfa Bank gave themselves a 68 per cent pay rise last year, bringing the value of their overall…Mon Oct 10 2005 - 01:00
Kozeny still holds Irish citizenshipViktor Kozeny was granted Irish citizenship in 1995 by the Rainbow coalition under the passports for investment scheme after …Sat Oct 08 2005 - 01:00
Services growth hit by oil hikes - NCB indexCompanies in the Irish services sector won large volumes of new business in September but a survey has indicated that growth …Thu Oct 06 2005 - 01:00
€763,000 profit for Clayton Love groupThe Clayton Love Distribution frozen food business booked pretax profits of €763,000 in 2004, the year in which the businessman…Wed Oct 05 2005 - 01:00
Ansbacher findings being passed onMinister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Micheál Martin has directed that information amassed in an inquiry into three companies…Tue Oct 04 2005 - 01:00
Mooney posts €80,000 pretax loss on car salesThe four motor dealerships owned by Dublin businessman Paraic Mooney had combined sales last year of more than €102 million, …Tue Oct 04 2005 - 01:00
Pretax profits in Habitat's Republic stores down by 60%Pretax profits in the Republic's franchise of the Habitat group fell by 60 per cent to €95,913 from €239,463 in the year to March…Tue Oct 04 2005 - 01:00
Scott Tallon Walker profits up 50%The 10 directors at architectural firm Scott Tallon Walker shared management fees and dividends of €2Mon Oct 03 2005 - 01:00
Irish Ferries suffers setbacks to jobs planIrish Ferries has suffered a series of setbacks to its controversial reform plan after the High Court imposed an interim injunction…Sat Oct 01 2005 - 01:00
State plans to frustrate reflagging by Irish FerriesThe Government will attempt to frustrate the Irish Ferries plan to make more than 500 of its seafaring workers redundant and …Fri Sept 30 2005 - 01:00
Taoiseach condemns Irish Ferries proposalIrish Continental Group (ICG) is coming under mounting political pressure to abandon a plan to replace more than 540 of its staff…Thu Sept 29 2005 - 01:00
IFG shares gain on interim resultsShares in financial services group IFG gained 2.27 per cent to close at €1Thu Sept 29 2005 - 01:00
Dixons set to expand outside Dublin areaElectrical goods retailer Dixon's plans to open new stores in Cork and Drogheda in November in a new round of expansion that …Sat Aug 27 2005 - 01:00
Superquinn founder's son to run family's interestsSuperquinn's former deputy chairman Eamonn Quinn has left the company after the completion of its €450 million sale to Select…Sat Aug 27 2005 - 01:00
Kildare land sale realises €11.23m for Goodman companyA company controlled by businessman Larry Goodman realised €11Fri Aug 26 2005 - 01:00
Harvey Nichols prepares for €10m opening in DundrumLuxury department store Harvey Nichols will go head-to-head with Brown Thomas at the high end of the retail market when it opens…Fri Aug 26 2005 - 01:00
Dundalk to lose 250 jobs as US firm plans closureUp to 250 workers will lose their jobs when the US technology group Quantum closes its plant in Dundalk, Co Louth.Thu Aug 25 2005 - 01:00
BWG select bidder for UK off-licence franchiseSpar franchise owner BWG Group has selected the British private equity house ECI Partners as preferred bidder for its Cheshire…Wed Aug 24 2005 - 01:00
Consumer body calls for end to Groceries OrderThe interim National Consumer Agency has claimed that three-quarters of all goods in a typical shopping basket may be more expensive…Wed Aug 24 2005 - 01:00
Musgrave group breaks link with retail outletsThe Musgrave Group has discontinued its leading franchise operation in central Dublin after a long-running disagreement over "…Tue Aug 23 2005 - 01:00
BWG may look to buy Iceland sitesBWG Holdings, owner of the Spar franchise, has emerged as a potential bidder for some of the supermarkets in the Iceland frozen…Sat Aug 20 2005 - 01:00
IFSC companies lobby ministers on Luas extensionA group of IFSC-based companies has lobbied Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, Tánaiste Mary Harney and three other Ministers in its campaign…Sat Aug 20 2005 - 01:00
Brown Thomas profits up 25% after sales surgePretax profits at the Brown Thomas chain climbed by 25 per cent to €24.19 million last year on the back of a 12Fri Aug 19 2005 - 01:00
Iceland food store shutdown risks 160 jobsUp to 160 jobs are at risk in Dublin and Donegal after the owners of the Iceland supermarket chain decided to shut down the seven…Thu Aug 18 2005 - 01:00
Fitzgerald group bucks bar trend as profits doubleAnnual pretax profits in the bar and restaurant empire controlled by publican Louis Fitzgerald almost doubled to €8Wed Aug 17 2005 - 01:00
Parc group profits rise 6% to €3.7mOperating profits at the Parc recruitment group rose to €3.7 million in the year to the end of March from €3Wed Aug 17 2005 - 01:00
Fexco in talks to buy CNG Travel Group armFexco, the Kerry payments company, is in advanced discussions to acquire the loss-making business-to-consumer division of CNG…Tue Aug 16 2005 - 01:00
Digiweb doubling staff ahead of roll-outBroadband provider Digiweb is doubling its staff to 120 as it opens new offices in Limerick and Citywest, Co Dublin.Tue Aug 16 2005 - 01:00
BIAM leaving Frankfurt for LondonBank of Ireland Asset Management (BIAM) is closing its Frankfurt office in a move that will see the €800 million business transferred…Sat Aug 13 2005 - 01:00
Tyco International revenues soar 400% to over €49mAnnual pretax profits at an IFSC-based finance unit owned by US conglomerate Tyco International have grown by almost 400 per …Fri Aug 12 2005 - 01:00
Day of reckoning looms for MartinMicheál Martin might not like it, but he is facing his biggest test since the ban on smoking in pubs in deciding whether to retain…Thu Aug 11 2005 - 01:00
Fashion group's Irish profits hit €18mBritish retailer Philip Green is making annual pretax profits of more than €18 million at the 90 stores in the Irish unit of …Wed Aug 10 2005 - 01:00
SIAC in prime position to build Tara motorwayA consortium involving Spanish construction firm Cintra and the Irish group SIAC is now in prime position to build the €600 million…Wed Aug 10 2005 - 01:00
Kerry spends €180m on UK food groupKerry Group, the food maker, is spending almost €180 million to consolidate its British precooked meals business with the purchase…Tue Aug 09 2005 - 01:00
AIB chief financial officer to leave the bank earlyAIB chief financial officer Declan McSweeney is to retire at the end of next monthTue Aug 09 2005 - 01:00
€450m takeover set to be finished in 10 daysThe €450 million takeover of Superquinn by the Select Retail Holdings consortium will be signed off in the next 10 daysSat Aug 06 2005 - 01:00
