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The Business Post Group has declined to confirm whether it is in talks with Mark Beard, a former senior executive with The Economist.

Investing in companies as diverse as oil terminals to media groups taught Roger Courtney the value of data to business decision-making. He now runs Sunstone, a market intelligence company.

UCC has been looking for a buyer for the IMI after splitting the business educational organisation from its Dublin campus property.

The group behind the Business Post newspaper, majority owned by Galway businessman Enda O'Coineen, is in talks to sell a minority stake to one of the biggest publishing houses in the Nordics.