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‘They laugh at us’: Dublin retailers voice fury at €10,000-plus payouts for defamation over shoplifting
Shopkeepers association hears of rising levels of criminality in stores, from shoplifting to violent robbery
Novo Nordisk drops Dublin factory plan
Seen & Heard: Inheritance tax reduction, Press Up stake and Spar sale
French investor in €16m deal for Garda Ombudsman headquarter offices
21-24 Capel Street is fully let to Garda watchdog, and Spar owner BWG group, and is generating over €1.26m in annual rental income
Former Spar operators entitled to full hearing of claims, court rules
BWG Foods Unlimited sued Sean and Bernadette Glynn claiming they had provided personal guarantees on debts at their store
BWG Foods to invest €35m in Mace convenience store business
The Mace retail business registered record sales of €400 million in 2023, a 6.5 per cent increase on 2022
Can the success of the plastic bag levy be replicated with bottles and cans?
The levy on plastic bags relied on a stick. The Re-turn scheme offers a fairly paltry carrot
Rise of shoplifting: ‘Many of them are over 65.. they steal meat, medicine, health and beauty products’
Retailers are being increasingly targeted by organised gangs and serial thieves while shop staff are spat at and racially abused
Spar shop worker hospitalised after violent attack in Dublin inner city
Two shop workers assaulted in Dublin 7 by man using chair to hit windows and doors outside of premises on Tuesday evening
Retailers could be forced to reveal profits under proposed Bill
Proposed legislation from Labour Party aimed at bringing more transparency to supermarket sector
Watchdog clears Spar owner’s takeover of rival supplier
Deal subject to a number of legally binding commitments
RTÉ seeks new sponsor for Fair City for first time in nine years
Long-running RTÉ One soap opera has been backed by Chill Insurance since 2014
Shoppers spend €1.6bn in Spar stores as group plots expansion
BWG Foods will add 60 stores to its branch network over the next two years
Maxol renews wholesale contract with Spar owner for €340m
BWG has also won the tender to supply forecourt retailer’s baked and deli goods over the next four years
Tesco’s weird take on Irishness, Boots’ night-bus terror: The Christmas TV ads, 2022
Patrick Freyne: John Lewis’s skateboarding ad is moving. Aldi’s Kevin the Carrot is still theologically perplexing
Spar owner maintains bottom line despite Covid-19 challenges
BWG Foods says in latest set of accounts that the pandemic did not negatively impact its overall business last year
Customer analysis start-up raises €1.5m and rebrands as VisionR
VisionR system harvests anonymised data on customer behaviour in physical shop spaces
Spar-owner BWG increased sales by 7% in four-month period to end of January
Irish retail group’s South African parent hails its ‘impressive’ performance
Spar owner to use AI to guess what customers want to buy
BWG rolling out AI-based predictive stock ordering solution across its 1,000-plus stores
Deliveroo expands deliveries into Kildare, Meath and Louth
Services now available to 39% of population
Irish-founded The Naked Collective closes €6.2m funding round
Healthy drinks firm will use funding to support expansion plans overseas
Man who withdrew €60,000 damages claim played ‘game of chicken’ with court
Christopher Morgan alleged his back and pelvis were injured when he slipped and fell
Spar to offer short shelf-life products in lower-cost surprise bags
Company partnering with food waste app Too Good To Go for the new initiative
What Circle K’s move onto city streets tells us about the future of forecourts
Bid to buy 10 Dublin Londis stores comes as its existing outlets face period of great change
Forecourt retailer Circle K buys 10 Dublin convenience stores
Canadian group buys 10 high-profile Londis convenience outlets from Griffin Group
Deliveroo expands on-demand services to Waterford city
Company, which launched in the Republic in 2015, is now operating in five cities locally
Sausage wars blown out of proportion, says meat company
First six months of protocol has been not one of disadvantage, but opportunity
WFH, shopping local, posh takeaways: which Covid changes are here to stay?
Will queuing patiently, being nicer and improving the garden outlive the pandemic?
Lockdown delivers 3% sales boost to Spar owner BWG
Brexit had ‘minimal impact’, South Africa-owned operator of franchise in Ireland says
An act of cultural homicide in Dublin’s south docklands
Hugh Linehan: The City Arts Centre was once a reservoir for the quirky, the creative, the insurgent
The Naked Collective bags Oscar for its healthy drink
Irish company’s Mude drink to be included in goodie bag given to attendees
Deliveroo solution allows customers to order food directly from restaurants
Customers can order from online channels with deliveries done through Deliveroo
Irish companies eager to go green and decarbonise
Food Academy at SuperValu is a shining example of sustainability initiative
€56m payout for directors at Spar parent BWG after Christmas
South African group will assume full control of BWG in January
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