Budget VAT rise ‘would undermine’ hotel sectorIncrease in the tax rate would be ‘absolutely incredible’, says Irish Hotels FederationSun Aug 05 2018 - 17:45
Kilkenny group says dispute between chief executive and her son is overGreg O’Gorman had instigated court proceedings against his mother Marian O’GormanFri Aug 03 2018 - 15:54
Three Ireland plans to begin offering 5G services next yearContract customer numbers and cost control push ebitda to €94m in half-year to end JuneFri Aug 03 2018 - 04:15
Tourism industry asks for extra €50m in budget submissionIrish Tourist Industry Confederation seeks annual allocation of €164m in face of BrexitFri Aug 03 2018 - 03:22
State appears to be getting seven-year itch over tourism VAT rateCaveat: The industry is currently booming but we all know that booms never lastThu Aug 02 2018 - 16:30
Three’s earnings rise despite sales dip, as it tightens the noose on costsJump in contract customer numbers helps mobile operator increase earnings 22%Thu Aug 02 2018 - 09:42
Revenues at Smurfit Kappa show why it resisted takeover, says CFO‘We can deliver value,’ says Ken Bowles as company reports 5% rise in revenuesWed Aug 01 2018 - 07:18
Hotel room revenue growth outside Dublin overtakes growth in capitalHotels booming but food sales face slowdown as alternative wedding venues eat their lunchWed Aug 01 2018 - 00:00
Tourism’s 9% special VAT rate is a ‘deadweight’, says reportDepartment of Finance says rate has cost €2.6bn since its introduction during recessionTue Jul 31 2018 - 20:22
Restaurants’ plan to charge for ‘no-shows’ blockedAssociation accuses watchdog of ‘losing the run of itself’ by targeting SME groupSat Jul 28 2018 - 03:00
Dublin retailing family wants to ‘make Poundworld great again’ in the UKHenderson family plan bid for insolvent British discount retailerSat Jul 28 2018 - 02:45
Camile Thai eyes expansion in London, Cork and DublinFounder Brody Sweeney reveals another outlet in London for thriving restaurant chainFri Jul 27 2018 - 02:34
Why do business people run for president? They just want to be lovedCaveat: Proviso of pitch for office is that business success precludes need for moneyThu Jul 26 2018 - 16:30
Music firms to seek order against Sky over ‘three strikes’ piracy policyImposition of ‘graduated response’ policy on copyright infringement to be soughtThu Jul 26 2018 - 03:15
Kerrygold faces US lawsuit over ‘grass-fed cows’ claimClass-action suit filed in California alleges ‘false advertising’ by firmThu Jul 26 2018 - 01:07
Tourism industry warns no-deal Brexit would cost it €260mUmbrella group due to meet Government to discuss worries over UK exit from EUWed Jul 25 2018 - 14:48
Investors roused by Chinese stimulus and strong corporate earningsIrish banks advance on positive sentiment driven by strong performance from UBSTue Jul 24 2018 - 18:55
Too hot for a latte: Industry figures detail heatwave effects on retail segmentsCoffee sales fall for first time in five years while garden centre sales are in full bloomTue Jul 24 2018 - 14:57
‘Irish Examiner’ was at risk if ‘Irish Times’ deal had been blockedReport for Minister laid out media plurality imperative for approving takeoverTue Jul 24 2018 - 03:55
Oil explorer Providence looks to renewablesTony O’Reilly jnr company also in talks with Chinese investor to develop Irish oilfieldFri Jul 13 2018 - 05:51
Tony O’Reilly jnr: eager oilman who quit school at 15 to work as a gardenerInterview: Businessman believes the hunt for Irish oil is finally going to gush more than hype and start pumping 'black gold'Fri Jul 13 2018 - 05:45
UK cinema advertising group passes between Irish investorsMike Ormonde is believed to have taken control of Pearl & DeanSat Jun 30 2018 - 05:55
End of Drumm cases clears way for resumption of Quinn-IBRC battleDPP was concerned that material likely to be aired could have affected the criminal casesFri Jun 29 2018 - 20:45
Chinese currency slump raises trade war stakes and spooks investorsUS stocks struggle for direction as emerging markets remain miserableThu Jun 28 2018 - 19:57
Caveat: Time to put the brakes on dodgy car hire operatorsEach summer the consumer pages of newspapers fill with tales of unscrupulous practices by some car hire operatorsThu Jun 28 2018 - 17:31
Tax-free funds once favoured by ‘vultures’ fall €55bnRegulator attributes decline to the decision of funds to exit their so-called ‘section 110 status’Thu Jun 28 2018 - 06:15
CarTrawler suspends Green Motion from booking engineIrish customers had claimed credit cards charged for fictitious damage to rental carsWed Jun 27 2018 - 20:18
Agency eyes phone taps in battle against white collar crimeElectronic surveillance vital in battle against corrosive crime, says commission chiefFri Jun 22 2018 - 05:00
It’s an Amazon jobs bonanza now but the past was a jungleCaveat: We shouldn’t forget painful memories of dark times when there were no jobsThu Jun 21 2018 - 16:30
Appeal court increases man’s fine for bid-rigging on carpet contractsFormer carpet company manager Brendan Smith has fine of €7,500 raised to €45,000Wed Jun 20 2018 - 18:36
Maximum Media strikes UK funding dealDigital media group behind Her.ie and Joe.ie secures up to €6 million from BMS FinanceWed Jun 20 2018 - 03:50
Ian Kehoe steps down as ‘Sunday Business Post’ editorHe will stay on until replacement is namedTue Jun 19 2018 - 12:30
Belarus woos CRH for $200m cement dealBelarus government has tried to woo investment from the Irish building materials group in the pastMon Jun 18 2018 - 18:51
Conor McGregor wants to be ‘The Green Back’ for EuropeMMA fighter seeks intellectual property rights for a number of personal brandsMon Jun 18 2018 - 04:01
WeWork to be anchor tenant at old Central Bank buildingWorkspaces will be let to freelancers in creative and techMon Jun 18 2018 - 01:00
Cybercrime against Irish business on the risePwC finds almost half of companies surveyed experienced crime over the last two yearsMon Jun 18 2018 - 00:01
US-China trade war fears send markets tumblingMarket report: The escalating trade spat also sent UK and European stocks tumblingFri Jun 15 2018 - 20:53
French group Paragon ID buys Galway fintech AmatechFirm with 600 staff and annual sales of €11m intends to take Amatech products globalFri Jun 15 2018 - 13:50
To ditch Ireland’s Wild West tag we must stop acting like cowboysCaveat: It doesn’t matter if the State is a ‘tax haven’, only that it looks like oneThu Jun 14 2018 - 16:14
European bourses tread water ahead of US rate rise newsTrading volumes brisk in Dublin as ICG fallsWed Jun 13 2018 - 19:22
Ireland is the world’s biggest corporate ‘tax haven’, say academicsStudy claims State shelters more multinational profits than the entire CaribbeanWed Jun 13 2018 - 04:35
IDA says no ‘Trump effect’ yet but US investors are ‘taking stock’Agency reports ‘very strong’ pipeline of new jobsTue Jun 12 2018 - 15:15
Davy pares back Paddy Power profit forecasts on Australian betting taxEarlier than expected introduction of tax likely to wipe 1.4% from firm’s earningsTue Jun 12 2018 - 12:52
Irish attitudes to cryptocurrencies shifting ‘from suspicion to curiosity’Research suggests number of Irish cryptocurrency users quadrupled in four yearsMon Jun 11 2018 - 05:45
Oath says its Irish assets stand at €700mDeclarations underline fading of State from role as a linchpin in Yahoo’s global tax planSat Jun 09 2018 - 06:00
Ex-Anglo bankers back Drogheda shopping centre buyout from CerberusRockmill, run by developer Phil Reilly, refinanced project with help from lending house ECBSat Jun 09 2018 - 05:30
Hope for European banks as speculation mounts over end to ECB stimulusMixed performance for Irish banks with AIB up 0.7% and Bank of Ireland down over 0.3%Thu Jun 07 2018 - 20:25
Caveat: Varadkar’s ‘FBI for white-collar crime’ is all talk unless it has moneyODCE has barely 40 people to investigate all white-collar crime in the StateThu Jun 07 2018 - 18:00
Niall Harbison sells out of Lovin Media in deal that values it at €3mEmmet O’Neill takes control of group, which is eyeing expansion at home and abroadThu Jun 07 2018 - 09:00
Irish tourism told to target ‘luxury travellers’ from China and GulfFáilte Ireland says such visitors can drive up to 10 times the revenue of an average visitorThu Jun 07 2018 - 05:00
