After the slump, can Ireland survive the recovery?
It is a strange, but well-established, fact that the number of firms going bust peaks during an economic recovery, rather than in the previous slump itself.
It is a strange, but well-established, fact that the number of firms going bust peaks during an economic recovery, rather than in the previous slump itself.
New figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that foreign investment flows into Ireland last year almost doubled from the depressed levels of 2001, to reach nearly Ђ26bn.
Tax incentives, such as Business Expansion Schemes (BES), provide much-needed funding for start-up businesses in this country, and should not be derided as 'tax loopholes' by Revenue sources, KPMG said yesterday.
ISME, the Independent Business Organisation, is disappointed that the Budget contains very little with respect to the promotion of enterprise, the encouragement and rewarding of risk-taking and will not improve the overall position of indigenous b
Confidence about the economic outlook for small- and medium-sized business (SMEs) is returning, a new survey commissioned by mobile phone operator O2 has revealed.
Research published on Thursday (6 November) reported that confidence and employment prospects have improved in the last three months in the small- and medium-sized business sector.
Proposed legal, accounting and regulatory changes could hinder the growth of the venture capital industry and an enterprise culture in Ireland, the Irish Venture Capital Association (IVCA) warned last night.
CIT Group, the US-based commercial and consumer credit finance firm, announced yesterday that it is to centralise its European operations in Dublin.
On 15 October 2003 100 staff of FDA member companies in Ireland turned out to listen to none other than their home-grown hero - Jack Charlton OBE - at the first ever FDA Staff Forum to be held in Ireland.
To help companies cope with the Japanese style and identify potential customers, Enterprise Ireland (EI) now organises at least six sector-specific trade missions a year.