Revenue and profits surged in 2022 at the Irish low-carbon cement manufacturer backed by Dermot Desmond and Bill Gates.
Overnight violence is sadly reminiscent of my previous home city. When it comes to policing unashamed bigotry, there are good and bad things we can learn from the French capital’s riotous history.
The Paris-listed Paragon ID manufacturer of passports, transport cards and smart retail tags is going private. The buy-out offer was launched from a low-key office suite in Sandyford.
A Paris court is holding the fourth successive trial of the inheritance tax dispute involving two generations of the billionaire Wildenstein family. Their bloodstock interests were located in Irish companies – until very recently.
When a fast-growing French renewable energy developer and one of Ireland’s most recognisable farmers partnered for a large-scale solar farm, local objections escalated quickly.
Following on from a UK pay measure, a new French labour law aims to improve safety on Channel crossings but Irish Ferries believes it is about “safeguarding the interests of certain ferry operators who are in receipt of state subsidies”.
Paris-listed Paragon ID aims to compete with China in the race to add chips to everything from passports to retail product tags. Its Irish majority shareholder is now taking it private.
Since 2015, the group owned by the Queally and Browne families has had a 49% stake in French-based Elivia. Instead of exercising an option to take it over, the Irish shareholder is selling out. Why?
As the evictions ban ends today, the Irish and French governments appear to have each picked an issue and decided to lose the next election over it. The consequences will extend beyond political calculations.
Investors led by France’s sovereign wealth fund are taking control of the debt-ridden French care multinational. Their input into an ongoing restructuring plan remains to be seen, as does its impact on Orpea’s 1,500 Irish residents.
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