Confirming the examinership of the Dublin marble table maker, a court heard of positive engagement with creditors and a reasonable prospect of survival with new investment.
The greatest CEO of his generation, Michael Smurfit built a global empire that now employs 100,000. These days, he lives a quieter life on his yacht in the Mediterranean, where he spoke with Tom Lyons.
Founded by Frank Carroll and Alfred Cochrane 40 years ago, Alfrank Designs is facing mounting debts after several loss-making years.
Sean Quinn's former manufacturing business was last week sold to Turkish building materials group Çimsa. Within hours, he was retelling the same old tropes. Quinn needs to move on, not invoke Booker T Washington.
Liberty Insurance and Albert Reynolds-founded C&D Foods are locking horns with Zurich Insurance in new High Court proceedings.
The Ardagh edifice was designed for interest rates a couple of percentage points lower than they are today.
Limerick manufacturing software start-up Mavarick was founded two years ago. Working with the €65 billion German car maker is a big breakthrough.
Yvonne Burke is chief financial officer of Glen Dimplex, the international giant founded by industrialist Martin Naughton. She doesn’t see herself as strictly a finance person and has been at the heart of many big global deals, she tells Tom Lyons.
Revenue and profits surged in 2022 at the Irish low-carbon cement manufacturer backed by Dermot Desmond and Bill Gates.
Oisin Hanrahan built and sold Handy and ran the Nasdaq-listed Angi. Now he’s back in start-up mode with Keychain and is trying to solve the outsourcing woes of brands and manufacturers.
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