Karl Lagerfeld retail business to pull shutters down on Kildare Village outlet

Despite owning 18 primary care centres in Ireland, UK-listed Primary Health Properties is not a household name. However, as it rolls out a €500m Irish expansion plan, it soon will be. Head of investment David Bateman reveals what is next for the stg£2bn real estate investment trust in Ireland.

David Walsh believes he can emulate the success he enjoyed with Netwatch with his new business, HaloCare. He talks about regional development, driving innovation and why the government needs to ban personal guarantees and reform CGT.

Since taking as CEO of Maxol five years ago, Brian Donaldson has overseen growth and expansion at the 100-year-old fuel retailer. He talks about location, competition and entering the energy sector.

Backers were told Lux Estate Capital, a purported luxury property investment firm, was worth millions and would deliver an 8 per cent return. However, the promoter is now in Spain and the backers of his Irish company are battling to get their money back.

Personal and commercial issues have to be resolved in the lucrative family-owned business behind the Ashling Hotel in Dublin and the Imperial Hotel in Galway.

The trade agreement between the EU and the UK is just days old, and supply chains are already facing disruption even as freight traffic remains low following holidays and pre-Brexit stockpiling. And this is just the start.

Tim Cummins is the CEO of logistics, sales and marketing company Primeline. Normally publicity shy, Cummins spoke to The Currency about joining the business and managing supply chains through Brexit and Covid-19.

He restored it. Then he tried to sell it. Now, Michael Flatley, the Irish-American dancer, has retained planning consultants to work with Cork County Council on development opportunities for the 150-acre estate.

Cork-based property investor Henry Gwyn-Jones claims he was duped out of millions in a business deal to buy a Bulgarian shopping centre. But a recent High Court order means he now has to pay the man he blames for his losses.

The IDA is developing 19 advanced building solutions in regional locations. CEO Martin Shanahan explains the plan, and also talks about the business of luring FDI to Ireland in the midst of a global pandemic.