SuperValu has created 20 jobs after establishing a financial services division to launch a suite of home and car insurance products. It has joined forces with AIG to offer supermarket
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Workday a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, today announced the opening of its new European headquarters office in Dublin 7, in the heart of the
UK firm Sports Direct International, founded by English billionaire Mike Ashley, has reached an agreement to pay a total of €47.5m to acquire the shares it does not already own
Lending by Ireland’s 354 credit unions slumped to a 15-year low of €3.5 billion in the 12 months to June 2015, due to a combination of reduced demand and lending
Irish Water is to cut 1,200 jobs by 2021, according to parent company Ervia’s business plan published Wednesday morning. The company hopes to save €1.1 billion across areas including payroll,
Digicel, the telecoms group owned by billionaire Denis O’Brien, last night cancelled a planned stock market debut in New York that could have valued the business at as much as
The engineering components firm McAuley Precision and McAuley Fabrication based in Ballymoney, Northern Ireland is to create 64 manufacturing jobs over the next four years. The news jobs announced by
The Government has set aside €130m as a dedicated fund to promote programmes for energy efficiency and renewable energy, with the hopes that a series of focuses could ultimately bring
The Whitewater Shopping Centre in Newbridge, Co Kildare has been put up for sale by its joint owners Ballymore Properties and Elm Holdings. The centre, which is Ireland’s largest regional
The publicly-quoted hotels group Dalata, which recently raised €160m in new equity capital to invest in buying existing or building new hotels in Ireland, is in discussions to buy as
Bord na Móna plans to stop harvesting peat by 2030 in what it described as the “biggest change of land use in modern Irish history”. It will invest in green
Passenger numbers at Ryanair rose by 12 percent to 9.55 million in September, compared to the same month a year earlier, according to new figures published today. Passenger numbers were
Irish IT professional services company Ammeon is to create 100 new high-skilled jobs in Dublin over the next 12 months. Ammeon, which specialises in IT-based transformation projects is expanding its
The total remuneration packages for executives at Swiss-Irish bakery giant Aryzta dropped by about two thirds to 5.2m Swiss Francs (CHF) in the company’s 2015 financial year. That is according
Rye River Brewing Corporation has announced an investment of €4m to build a new brewery and visitor centre in Celbridge in Co Kildare. The new centre is expected to employ
Ireland’s economic recovery accelerated in the first-half, expanding from the export sector to the domestic economy, prompting the Central Bank to revise its GDP forecast for 2015 up to 5.8
Merrion Pharmaceuticals says its survival is dependent on Declan Ryan’s Irelandia Investments not calling in an overdue loan as it reported a doubling of half-year losses. The Dublin-listed group, whose
Virgin Media, formerly known as UPC, is to launch its new Virgin Mobile brand in Ireland on Monday 5 October with unlimited data, voice and texts for €25 a month,
Air France will tell staff on Monday of “significant” job cuts after negotiations with pilots to boost productivity failed, the head of parent Air France-KLM told Europe 1 radio. “It
Paypal has begun asking staff to make spare rooms available to new employees, because of the shortage of rental accommodation, according to the company’s head of Irish operations Louise Phelan.
Siemens is launching its ambitious Partner 2020 programme. The bold strategy is set to inject a fresh focus on supplying technology and guidance to make Ireland a global manufacturing powerhouse,
Since last year, Irish energy research projects have successfully secured €18m in EU funds for Ireland. That is according to the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) who today
Investec’s latest Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) improved marginally to 53.8 in September, comfortably above the 50 mark that indicates growth. Despite a strengthening of the euro relative to sterling
Irish engineering firm PM Group doesn’t intend plotting a stock market flotation yet, with a strong enough balance sheet to
Accenture, the world’s largest consulting firm in terms of revenue, is to create 200 jobs new jobs over the next
After growing by over 5pc in 2014, Ireland’s economy is set to be the best performing in Europe again this
DIGICEL IS TAKING on the likes of Google, Facebook, and Yahoo as it becomes the first operator to block ads
Ryanair chairman David Bonderman has cast doubts on Michael O’Leary’s plans for his airline to provide connecting flights for long-haul
Cork retail group Musgrave – the owner of the SuperValu and Centra brands – has signed a deal with New
Accenture is expanding its Irish operations and establishing a Centre for Innovation in Dublin where the company will research, incubate,
The additional €1.5bn of spending increases and lower taxes planned for Budget 2016 is not needed in an economy already
Announcing its half-year results yesterday, the oil and gas explorer said it is in discussions with its debt provider, US-based
Mr Villaquiran, who is currently chief executive of the group’s Corrugated Europe division, will take up the new role of
BM (NYSE: IBM) has announced it is to expand its IBM Ireland Analytics & Solutions Lab to advance cloud social collaboration
Taoiseach launches Competitive Feasibility Fund for Galway, Mayo and Roscommon The Taoiseach, Enda Kenny TD, today (Monday 28 September 2015)
Tesco has seen sales at its Irish supermarkets grow for the first time in more than two years although the
Irish company Neuromod has raised €5.5 million to fund clinical trials in the US for a device that targets millions
SFI in association with the DCU Ryan Academy invites you to the SFI Technology Innovation Development Award (TIDA) Pitch off.
Minister for Jobs Richard Bruton TD today announced that MECO, a leading manufacturer of engineered products for water purification, is
Swiss-Irish food group Aryzta said on Monday that revenues in the year to July 31st 2015 rose by 12.6 per
Royal Dutch Shell said it would cease exploration activity in offshore Alaska for the “foreseeable future” and take a writedown
Thirty jobs are to be created at a Limerick chimney cleaning company which is using the latest technology to reduce
Minister at State, Sean Sherlock TD opened the fifth PharmaChemical Ireland (PCI), Parenteral Drugs Association (PDA), International Pharmaceutical Engineers (ISPE)
United Technologies Corp is set to announce 20 new jobs at a maintenance, repair and overhaul centre in Shannon today. The
Aryzta has announced plans to sell its remaining stock in Irish agri-services group Origin Enterprises. The Swiss-based food group said it
Directors of Digicel have told investors it is prepared to spend $400 million on up to 15 acquisitions as the
The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), in co-operation with Enterprise Ireland have called on innovative companies to develop smart
Minister for Jobs, Richard Bruton TD announced today that NIIT Limited, a global company which provides multi-disciplinary learning management and
Around 70pc of the take-up of office space in the first half of the year was dominated by international technology
In its latest quarterly Irish Economy Monitor, the company said that its previous forecasts for GDP, of growth of 4pc
NIIT, which provides learning software, will establish the centre as part of its corporate learning group. The company said the
The company. whose clients include EMC, Symantec and Cisco, plans to set up in Massachusetts initially. Co-founder Brendan McPhillips told
Adverse exchange rate movements will hit Diageo’s full-year operating profit, the drinks group said, reducing it by up to £150
Dublin-based clinical research group Venn Life Sciences is to acquire Kinesis Pharma for a total consideration of up to €6.5
Groupon plans to cut about 1,100 jobs globally, as part of a reorganisation of its international operations. The company expects
Specialist student lender Future Finance is to create 50 jobs over the next two years as part of a major
Investec & Irish Exporters Association: FDI companies dominate Ireland’s export industry -Investec Sponsored Irish Exporters Association Report shows significant growth