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Tourism firms may raise prices to pay off warehoused tax bills

Tue, 03/19/2024 - 16:35
Analysis carried out by Fáílte Ireland found that businesses in the Accommodation & Food Services sector still owe more than €265m as of January 2024

Meta offers to slash fees for ads-free Facebook and Instagram to avert EU privacy concerns

Tue, 03/19/2024 - 15:49
Meta Platforms has offered to almost halve its monthly subscription fee for Facebook and Instagram to €5.99 from €9.99, a senior Meta executive has ...

TRIG sell Kerry wind farm for €62m

Tue, 03/19/2024 - 15:48
London investment firm The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) has sold its 50MW Kerry wind farm to an undisclosed buyer for €62 million.In an ...

€750m paid to Revenue in unpublished tax settlements

Tue, 03/19/2024 - 15:27
Finance and insurance accounted for more than a quarter of all the unpublished settlements that were made in 2023, with a total yield of €206m

Ted Baker’s UK shops poised for insolvency, risking over 1,000 jobs

Tue, 03/19/2024 - 15:04
The British retailer employs almost 1,000 people and has more than 40 stores in Britain and a number of outlets across Ireland, including in Dublin and Belfast, alongside a website and department store concessions in Brown Thomas and Arnotts

Kingspan accused of providing 'misleading' information to EU over proposed acquisition 

Tue, 03/19/2024 - 14:56
Investigation centres around company's proposed acquisition of Slovenian firm Trimo

Bentley profits head towards €600m as rich seek personalised cars 

Tue, 03/19/2024 - 14:26
World’s super-rich prove willing to pay enormous sums on customising their vehicles to set themselves apart from the merely very wealthy

International consultants to plan transformation of Limerick's King John's Castle into major attraction

Tue, 03/19/2024 - 12:34
Total of €2.26m has been secured from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to develop the site as a key tourist attraction

ECB ready to discuss rate cuts in June claims vice-president

Tue, 03/19/2024 - 08:41
The European Central Bank (ECB) will be in position to discuss an interest rate cut in June, vice-president Luis de Guindos said on Tuesday, joining ...

Unilever to spin off ice-cream division

Tue, 03/19/2024 - 08:24
British multinational food and personal care company Unilever has announced that it is to spin-off its ice cream division, which owns brands such as ...

AIB shares advance even as European stock markets edge lower

Mon, 03/18/2024 - 19:02
AIB led the gainers among the heavyweights, closing 2% up on the day to extend their winning streak since the start of the year to 23%

Mike Lynch 'spun a fabulous tale' to defraud HP over $11bn purchase, US trial told

Mon, 03/18/2024 - 17:46
Autonomy co-founder Mike Lynch and former finance executive Stephen Chamberlain are accused of scheming to inflate the company's revenue, starting in 2009 and ending with HP's disastrous acquisition of the company in 2011

Sharp rises in crude and gas likely to slow improving forecourt and energy utility bills

Mon, 03/18/2024 - 17:25
Crude oil and wholesale gas prices rose sharply in European markets on Monday, extending a recent trend that will likely slow an improving outlook ...

Saudi Aramco oil chief: Global energy transition 'visibly failing'

Mon, 03/18/2024 - 16:39
Saudi Aramco chief executive Amin Nasser has said the global energy transition is “visibly failing” on most fronts as proponents overlook the impacts ...

IMF warns regulators to heed lessons about 'too big to fail' banks

Mon, 03/18/2024 - 16:12
IMF staffers push back against the notion from regulators and politicians that the lessons have been fully learned from the failure of US banks and UBS a year ago

Pfizer to cut stake further in Panadol-maker Haleon

Mon, 03/18/2024 - 16:00
Both Haleon and Pfizer have significant operations based in Ireland, making the likes Panadol pain killers and other pharmaceuticals

Apple rejects criticism over its compliance with new EU market rules

Mon, 03/18/2024 - 13:59
Firms that fail to comply with the Digital Market Act risk investigations that can lead to fines of as much as 10% of their global annual turnover

Cocoa prices double ahead of Easter chocolate products season

Mon, 03/18/2024 - 13:46
Crops in West Africa — the heavyweight growing region — have been battered by diseases and a series of weather extremes, putting the world on track for a third straight supply deficit

Call for EU to avoid imposing sanctions on Rusal-owned firms such as Aughinish in Ireland

Mon, 03/18/2024 - 13:37
Industry group European Aluminium wants the EU to impose sanctions on aluminium supplied from Russia, but not on EU-based companies such as the Aughinish operation in the Shannon Estuary

Stressed German economy 'to hardly grow this year'

Mon, 03/18/2024 - 10:19
Germany is in recession and its economy will hardly grow this year, according to a Bloomberg survey.Gross domestic product will contract 0.1% in the ...

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