The issues impacting New Look and Quiz appear to be company-specific as struggling outposts of UK parents. When you delve into the data, the outlook for Irish retail is not as bleak as it might appear.
Five years ago, New Look tried unsuccessfully to put its business in Ireland into examinership. Now its parent in the UK is putting its Irish division into liquidation.
Sisu now has 25 cosmetic clinics in Ireland, the UK and the United States. After raising $15m in venture debt, its co-founders explain how the next stage will be to take in private equity backing.
The Barry Group, which operates the two chains, said it would pull McGregor’s whiskey and stout brands to align with customer and partner “values”. The MMA fighter was found liable for rape in a civil case last week.
The family-owned Musgrave group is one of Ireland's largest companies and controls the Supervalu, Centra and Donnybrook Fair brands. It is no longer going to list any of the products linked with Conor McGregor.
Nicky and Ella Dwyer are the founders of Drobey based in Monkstown, Co Dublin. As they gear up for the Christmas party market, they explain how they plan to grow further.
The hospitality sector says the issue is about margin, not customers. But with the government's decision not to reduce the Vat rate for the besieged sector, what other options are on the menu?
When it opened in 1976 there was nothing like Alias Tom in Dublin. Times change, however, and now the well-known store has gone into liquidation.
The businessman behind Centz discount stores and the collapsed Iceland frozen food chain in Ireland has initiated High Court proceedings against online publication The Journal.
Paul McGlade, who died in recent days, was a consummate retailer with an instinct for knowing what to buy and how to sell it. His story, while relatively little known, is one of the all-time greats of modern Irish business.
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