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Top business gong for project management firm

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000

A LEADING project management company has been crowned overall winner at the Ulster Bank Business Achiever's Awards.

Only way is up for pilot training centre

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000

MIKE Edgeworth set up the Pilot Training College just months after the 9/11 attacks plunged global aviation into a crisis, so it's little surprise that he's taking the latest recession more in his stride than the average businessman.

Eighteen firms shut for each day of Cowen reign

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000

The devastating impact of the recession on the private sector is revealed today as 127 companies a week or 12,049 in total have been forced to close, since Brian Cowen has become Taoiseach.

The Big Red Book is in the black and now eyeing up overseas opportunities

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000

THEY'VE been a costly headache for most businesses, but for The Big Red Book yo-yoing VAT rates and unusually frequent budgets take on a different complexion. "That's all good for us, whatever new rules they bring in will help us," smiles Marc O'Dwyer, who took over the accountancy software firm in 2000.

O2 extends fixed line business services

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:52:25 +0000

Telefonica O2 Ireland has announced that it is extending its range of landline and fixed broadband business services, targeting both SMEs and larger businesses.

ISME members refused in half of loan and overdraft requests

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000

A DAY after new figures showed five companies a day went bust last month, business lobby group ISME warned that half its members' requests for overdrafts and loans are being refused.

Historic hotel bids for court protection

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:03:23 +0000

WICKLOW's Grand Hotel is preparing to petition the High Court for examinership, marking the latest blow for Ireland's embattled hospitality sector.

One-in-five SME loans are in trouble, says IBF chief

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000

ONE-in-five loans to small and medium-sized businesses is in trouble, the Irish Banking Federation (IBF) revealed yesterday.

New clients help outsourcing firm ring the changes

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000

HE owns a call centre, but this time last year Pat Keogh didn't even want to answer his own phones. "The first few months of 2009 were horrendous," he recalls. "The amount of people looking for a reduction or looking to cancel was phenomenal. It got to the stage in February where I didn't want to answer anyone's calls because I knew it would be bad news."

Poster-boy company in a world where globalisation holds sway

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Liam Casey reckons he clocked up about 300,000 airmiles last year. That works out the equivalent of over seven times around the equator, a lot of free upgrades, and enough in-flight meals to grow pretty weary of chicken and salmon.