Dublin-based Store Computer Technology, which provides tech services and support to the retail sector, has been bought in a deal of “strategic importance”.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
Business owners around the city locked their shops down on Thursday night unsure of how the violence would spread. But retailers say the looting and attacks are a follow-on of the threats they face every day.
Investment by an international consolidator is a welcome boost for prospective M&As and long-term investment in Irish pharmacies, but static revenue and rising costs are squeezing single-unit pharmacies and preventing the next generation of entrepreneurs from entering the sector.
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