The Dead Rabbit group has the potential to become “one of the biggest Irish pub companies in America,” says its managing director Jack McGarry after launching its first bar outside of New York.
Started as a one-man-band in a Manhattan shared office, the Dubliner's VC firm is betting on AI and emerging tech start-ups. This opens a series by Hannah McCarthy among Irish voices in American business and culture ahead of the US election.
Legal action taken in New York against the Kerrygold maker alleged its butter was exposed to harmful chemicals but, after a year and a half, the case has been dismissed.
Batteries play an ever-increasing role in all aspects of our lives but finding an efficient and profitable way of recycling them is elusive. Now a new start-up with strong Irish links believes it has found the answer.
Southwest was the airline that inspired Ryanair under Herb Kelleher. Now activist investor Elliott Management wants to nominate 10 new directors to its board to turn it around, including Ryanair's former deputy CEO.
Changes in tax law on both sides of the Atlantic have seen the Irish subsidiaries of multinationals pay more to access American intellectual property. But from the US side, a lot of this revenue is unaccounted for.
Replacing call centres with home workers and a suite of customer management services and technologies is proving to be a scalable business for the Cork-based company.
American investors pay a higher multiple for a given set of cash flows, which has attracted CRH and Flutter’s listings. Their financial data is now coming in.
A group of Irish business leaders recently completed a three-city swing across the US aimed at forging deeper links with their American counterparts. It is one of the most significant annual interfacing events in the transatlantic business calendar.
The trial of NFL football hero OJ Simpson was one of biggest stories from America in the past 30 years. His death last week leaves many dark areas around the crimes he was never found guilty of having committed.
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