Full coverage: Retail

Parents had placed €576,519 in customer deposits to buy prams and buggies in the business. Customers who paid by debit or credit card have been told to contact their bank or card provider promptly to ask about the chargeback process.

Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment Peter Burke says he expects “good wins” for SMEs in the upcoming Budget. But he has a fight on his hands to get all he wants.

The luxury retailer arrived in Dundrum with huge ambitions and a spectacular opening party. Court filings now reveal a very different story: years of falling sales, mounting losses, and an Irish operation increasingly dependent on its UK parent for survival.

Farmer-owned rural pharmacies are nothing new, but a co-op buying standing businesses from an independent pharmacist is.

Companies are redesigning packaging and slashing marketing budgets to maintain the psychologically important threshold, writes Natasha Khan, The Wall Street Journal.

The Inditex group’s flagship brand has surpassed Nike in global rankings by remaining rooted in its founder Amancio Ortega’s Galician heartland.

The Inditex group’s flagship brand has surpassed Nike in global rankings by remaining rooted in its founder Amancio Ortega’s Galician heartland.

New figures from PwC show that one in four insolvencies in the first half of this year were in the retail sector. The majority were smaller retailers, many of whom are struggling with rising costs, changing consumer patterns, and the hollowing out of town centres.

The Spar-owned retail franchisor is providing a timely exit for the owner of Abrakebabra, O’Briens Cafe, and Bagel Factory ahead of a major refinancing deadline.

Liquidators to a company within collapsed women’s and men’s fashion retail chain Born Clothing founded by Joan Lynch and John Curley in 2010 have identified loans to connected parties. This includes €998,000 to Curley.