DENIS O’BRIEN’S online recruitment business Saongroup.com is expanding in Africa with the launch of “myjobs” websites in Botswana, Kenya and Mozambique.
The company, which operates here as Irishjobs.ie, is already in South Africa and Mauritius. O’Brien hopes to cash in on the growth in internet usage in Africa.
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Blue Ocean Wireless, the maritime communications group founded by Domhnal Slattery, has filed for voluntary liquidation in Britain.
Its office has been closed and the business relocated to the Philippines, where large shareholder Smart Communications is based. Blue Ocean owes about £504,000, documents filed last month show.
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Accounts filed for radio station Galway Bay FM indicate that it paid its parent firm, the Connacht Tribune newspaper group, a dividend of €1.2 million in the year to the end of March 2009.
Western Community Broadcasting Services Ltd made a €1.36 million profit that year, down from €1.41 million in the previous year. It closed the year with shareholders’ funds of just under €10 million.
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Last month, I described Paul Geaney as a son of the late Donal Geaney, formerly the head of Elan. He is, in fact, a nephew of Donal, which I’m happy to clarify.
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Irish Distillers-owned Jameson whiskey has extended its sponsorship of the Dublin International Film Festival for two more years. The festival will spend €1.3 million this year on marketing and PR activities.
