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Heineken sales rise by 7%

Brewer Heineken sold far more beer than expected in the first three months of the year, helped by growth over the Vietnamese and Chinese New Years and an earlier Easter, sending

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Ornua’s sales grow by 9%

Kerrygold producer Ornua is confident of delivering strong returns in the face of a challenging dairy market after growing its sales by 9pc last year. the company has reported earnings before

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Oil prices fall after Doha talks fail

Oil prices fell today after a meeting between major producing nations failed to agree an output freeze, leaving the world grappling with an excess of unwanted crude. The meeting in Qatar was

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Morgan Stanley’s quarterly profit falls by more than half

Morgan Stanley’s (MS.N) quarterly profit fell by more than half as the Wall Street bank’s fixed-income trading and investment banking businesses took a hit from market volatility. But the earnings

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One51 cancels planned IPO

Environmental services and plastics operator One51 surprised the market last night when it cancelled a planned IPO due to pressure from shareholders. The Dublin-headquartered company has proposed adjourning indefinitely an

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Shire to expand biotechnology manufacturing capacity in Ireland

Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPG) announces that it plans to expand its global biotechnology manufacturing capacity over the next four years by investing US$400 million in Ireland to meet

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38% increase in IT security breaches in 12 months

Research conducted by Experis, the company which specialises in IT, Engineering and Science recruitment, shows that IT security breaches have increased by 38% in just 12 months. This upsurge occurred

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The Dow Chemical Company Invests in OxyMem’s Waste water Treatment Technology

The Dow Chemical Company, based in Michigan has invested in a small UCD spin-off which has developed a novel method of treating sewage at lower cost. The chemical company is

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A takeover by Sunny Hill for exploration firm Petroceltic has come to a close

A potential takeover by Sunny Hill a company owned by Petroceltic’s biggest shareholder Worldview has come to a close after the timing for acceptance on the £6.4m bid lapsed. Last month, Petroceltic

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Glanbia accused of paying below market rate for milk

Glanbia has been accused of paying below the market rate for milk from its suppliers after it cut base milk prices to 22 cent a litre. The lowest price it

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Iput secures €150m credit facility

    Iput secures €150m credit facility

Iput has secured a €150m credit facility from Wells Fargo a US lender to help finance its various development projects and also to maintain its dividend policy for investors. This emerges

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VMware adding to its Cork workforce

VMware is adding 40 jobs at its campus in Ballincollig Co. Cork. adding to its workforce of 800 people. The news marks continued expansion for the Cork site which is already the

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Attendance Up One Quarter at SEAI’s Energy Show 2016

The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland’s (SEAI) annual two-day business-to-business event, The Energy Show 2016, was a huge success with visitors up a quarter on last year. The show took

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123.ie to issues refunds to thousands of customers

123.ie, the Irish insurance company owned by the RSA, confirmed that around 8,000 motor policy customers had paid more than they should have for their insurance cover due to a technical error relating

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Poundland sees return to sales growth

UK discount retailer Poundland expects to return to underlying sales growth this financial year after its last one was hit by disruption from the acquisition of a rival and the

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Nestle’s first quarter growth beats expectations

The world’s biggest food company, Nestle has confirmed its full-year outlook after first-quarter underlying sales growth of 3.9% beating analysts’ estimates, driven mostly by growth in volumes rather than pricing. Nestle’s first-quarter growth

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Science Foundation Ireland and Pfizer announce exciting new R&D programme for Ireland

Science Foundation Ireland and Pfizer today announced the recipients of the 2016 SFI-Pfizer Biotherapeutics Innovation Award programme. The collaboration between Science Foundation Ireland and Pfizer provides qualified academic researchers with

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C&C asked to ‘repay loyalty’ over plant closure

Drinks giant C&C has been urged to find a buyer for its Shepton Mallet mill in Somerset after its announcement that it is to close the mill in the summer. The closure

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Slack to create 80 jobs at new Dublin hub

Slack is to create 80 jobs in Dublin over the next two years, bringing its workforce to 180 employed in Dublin. The company is set to move to a bigger office in the

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Tesco returns to full year profits

Supermarket giant, Tesco’s has reported a bottom-line pre-tax profit of £162m for the three-month period to the end of February, the first quarter of sales growth since 2012. This compares to losses of

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Euro General reports a €1m pre-tax loss

Euro General has reported a €1 million pre-tax loss last year. Expansion costs and a €1.25m write-off in a subsidiary resulted in discount retailer, Euro General going into the red last

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Another World’s First for Prysmian’s Flextube®

Prysmian, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has marked the launch of local manufacture of its new Flextube® cable technology last week with yet another world’s

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Alcoa to cut jobs due to mixed quarterly results

US aluminium giant Alcoa posted mixed quarterly results Monday, as commodities prices dragged on sales ahead of a planned company split. Alcoa also announced that it will be cutting as many as

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Craft beer prices to rise on hop shortage

Craft beers will soon be much more expensive after the price of hops soared due to the dry and hot weather blighting

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HUBER+SUHNER meets future capacity needs with launch of IANOS® fiber management system at Data Centre World [RealWire]

Leading international manufacturer of components and systems for optical and electrical connectivity, HUBER+SUHNER, today announced the launch of IANOS®: a

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SEAI calls on organisations to build on €1billion energy savings

The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) today called on organisations to build on the €1 billion in energy savings

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Microsoft backs new EU-US Privacy Shield

Microsoft has become the first United States tech giant to sign up for the EU-US Privacy Shield. The company has

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Irish beef exports to the US worth just €6m

700 tonnes of beef were exported to the US since it lifted its ban on importing beef from Ireland over one

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DZ Bank to close with loss of 20 jobs

DZ Bank Ireland, has become the latest former IFSC bank to hand back its Branch in Dublin. The bank, which in

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Rate of growth in construction industry eases

According to the latest Ulster Bank Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index, inflation in the construction sector has eased to its lowest in

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Kore first company in Ireland to achieve integrated ISO 9001:2015 & ISO 14001:2015 Certification

KORE, based in Kilnaleck, Co. Cavan, is the first company in Ireland to obtain integrated ISO certification for both the

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Tullow Oil’s production delayed by two weeks

Tullow Oil’s production delayed by two weeksShares in Tullow Oil fell today as flows from a production vessel at its flagship

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Grifols aquires stake in Interstate Blood Bank

Grifols, has acquired a 49 per cent stake in the US-based Interstate Blood Bank for $100 million. The Spanish healthcare company recently

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Facebook’s new data centre breaks ground in Clonee

The ground breaking ceremony for the new Facebook Data Centre has taken place in Clonee Co Meath. The new site will be

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Dublin Airport to invest €320m on new runway

The DAA has confirmed that it plans to construct a new parallel runway at Dublin Airport. Dublin Airport is to invest

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Pure Storage opens new EMEA Support Centre in Dublin

Pure Storage (NYSE:PSTG), the market’s leading independent solid-state array vendor, today officially opened a new support centre in Dublin, Ireland

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Intercom lands $50m investment creating 100 new jobs forDublin

Intercom has closed a new funding round of $50m and will create 100 new jobs for Dublin after raising. The massive

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CXC creates 30 new jobs for Dublin

  CXC Corporate Services, a CXC Global Company and the Global Leader in multi country compliant Contingent Workforce Solutions has today

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Bizimply completes €2m funding round

Bizimply, the Irish technology firm has completed a €2 million funding round to support its recent growth plans to double its workforce. The funding

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Energy efficiency is vital to Ireland achieving its renewable energy targets

The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) has today published a report detailing the actions needed to meet our energy

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Pfizer pulls out of $160bn merger with Allergan

Pfizer has agreed not to go ahead with its proposed $160 billion merger with Dublin-based drugs manufacturer Allergan, in a major victory to

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€70,000 Prize Fund for Journey Re Global Entrepreneurship Competition

A competition announced today (05.04.16) is offering entrepreneurs the chance to win a share of a prize fund of €70,000,

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Eli Lilly and Company to develop cutting-edge technology for manufacturing of new wave of active pharmaceutical ingredients at Kinsale

Dr. John C. Lechleiter, chairman, president, and CEO, Eli Lilly and Company, announced today that the company is set to

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Ireland’s unemployment continues fall to 8.6% in March

New figures released from the Central Statistics Office today show that the unemployment rate continued its steady fall in March,

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Datapac improves business processes for Italicatessen with new ERP solution

Datapac, Ireland’s leading ICT solutions provider, today announces it has successfully implemented a new ERP system for Italicatessen, an Italian

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Allergan’s merger deal now in doubt

    Allergan’s merger deal now in doubt

Shares in Allergan, one of Ireland’s largest pharmaceutical firms have plummeted due to a crackdown on tax inversions. Allergan, which is run

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ESB plans to invest over €3 million in Endeco Technologies

ESB NovusModus, ESB’s clean tech fund, is to invest €3.3 million in Endeco Technologies which is part of a growing

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Paddy Power Betfair to cut 300 jobs

The betting firm began the process of telling staff yesterday. The job losses are likely to be in the areas like

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Horizon Life Sciences Group Appoints Thomas Merle to Board of Directors

Horizon Life Sciences Group, solutions provider to the life sciences sector globally, is pleased to announce the appointment to the

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US software company HubSpot to create 320 jobs

HubSpot the Massachusetts-based marketing software company has announced plans to create 320 jobs in Dublin over the next three years. The

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Highline Produce acquired by Fyffes

Highline Produce has been acquired by Fyffes for $145 million. Fyffes has acquired 100% of the equity and will refinance the existing debt

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Manufacturing growth reaches 8 month high for the month of March

According to the latest Purchasing Managers’ Index, growth in Manufacturing rose to an eight month high in March. Expansion has slowed compared to

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Brittany Ferries reports significant increase in early bookings for 2016

    Brittany Ferries reports significant increase in early bookings for 2016

Building on a highly successful sailing season in 2015, Brittany Ferries has reported a 19% increase in the number of

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Ward Solutions predicts €1.2M revenue from new ISO 27001 accreditation service

Ward Solutions, Ireland’s leading information security provider, today announces the launch of its new ISO 27001 consultancy service. It is

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Ranbaxy Pharmaceutical to close with the loss of 100 jobs

Ranbaxy pharmaceutical is to close its plant in Cashel, Co Tipperary with the loss of 100 jobs. The plant which

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Bristol-Myers Squibb and NIBRT Launch €1 Million Collaboration

Bristol-Myers Squibb has announced a collaboration with the National Institute of Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT) in Dublin to establish a

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Atlantic Bridge confirms €140m fund in European technology companies

Global Technology Fund Atlantic Bridge has launched a €140 million fund aimed at European technology companies with potential global market scalability. The Dublin-based company plans

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InfinityQS International’s Michael Lyle Recognized as a 2016 Food Logistics Champion

InfinityQS International, Inc., the global authority on real-time quality and Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence, announces that its president and CEO, Michael

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