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Full coverage: Retail

Health Matters operates a chain of health food stores. A number of its outlets are now seeking to restructure

Three companies within the group have entered a Small Companies Administrative Rescue Process to restructure their business, including the overall holding company.

Ian Kehoe
31st Jul, 2024 - 2 min read

Rent row: Jervis Shopping Centre unit left vacant in €1.7m lease dispute

Tessuti was due to open an anchor store in the city-centre retail property. Then the designer brand was taken over by Mike Ashley's Frasers Group. The row has wound up before the Commercial Court.

Francesca Comyn
22nd Jul, 2024 - 2 min read

Welsh retail tech firm Vista is buying Dublin’s SCT to bolster its Irish business

Dublin-based Store Computer Technology, which provides tech services and support to the retail sector, has been bought in a deal of “strategic importance”.

Jonathan Keane
19th Jul, 2024 - 2 min read

Ian Kehoe: The high street is not dead. But a slew of smaller retail outlets soon will be

Regardless of who you talk to in the retail sector, there is widespread agreement that towns and urban centres need to be reinvigorated if smaller retailers are to survive and thrive.

Ian Kehoe
18th Jul, 2024 - 5 min read

Falling sales, rising costs, and a retail brand no one wanted to buy: The story of the Health Store’s Irish collapse

Court filings and company documents reveal the battle to keep the Health Store retail chain alive and shed light on what went wrong for the retailer.

Ian Kehoe
12th Jul, 2024 - 4 min read

Talent is the lifeblood of recruitment. It’s usually there, it just needs to be discovered

People who spend their lives as a recruiter know how to search under the surface to uncover qualities even the candidate doesn’t know they possess.

Paul McArdle
22nd Apr, 2024 - 4 min read

Unpacked: Once celebrated as a zero-waste alternative, refill shops are losing their lustre

“It’s like a theatre, you’re happy to have it but you never really go." With many stores closing, entrepreneurs behind refill stores explain why they are being forced to shut up shop.

Rosalind Skillen
1st Apr, 2024 - 5 min read

Eagle Street Partners seeks to land on Square deal

The Square shopping centre in Tallaght has been up for sale since last summer. Its seller is prepared to lose money, but finding a buyer has not been easy.

Tom Lyons
11th Jan, 2024 - 1 min read

Dividends, sales, and margins: Ten graphs that tell the story of JD Sports’ Irish operation

The British retailer has just lowered its overall profit forecast citing higher costs and a slowdown in consumer spending. An analysis of its Irish business over a six-year period sheds light on how it is faring here.

Ian Kehoe
5th Jan, 2024 - 3 min read

Kevin McPartlan on net-zero: “If you’re interested in efficacy, rather than ideological purity, you have to take a technology-neutral approach”

Kevin McPartlan represents forecourt retailers, home fuel distributors and an oil refinery. Despite the consensus for net-zero carbon emissions, he sees a future for his industry.

Sean Keyes
4th Dec, 2023 - 6 min read
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