Christmas market at LIT
Students at Limerick Institute of Technology showed their entrepreneurial flair.
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Independent retailers suffer due to diesel laundering
04.Nov.2011 Retail Ireland chairman and Topaz retail director Frank Gleeson has said the problem of diesel laundering has escalated in the past 12 months to a level not seen before.
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Switching to the cloud can slash small business costs
04.Nov.2011 Moving business applications and data to a secure virtual environment allows small companies to cut their IT bills and free up resources which can be reinvested for growth, according to Jason Ward, country manager, EMC.
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Boylesports acquires 15 William Hill shops
03.Nov.2011 Irish independent bookmaker Boylesports is continuing on the expansion trail with the takeover of 15 shops from William Hill, saving around 60 jobs.
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Book asks what it takes for a business to take off
03.Nov.2011 A book has just been published that explores why some businesses just tick over while others go from strength to strength based on interviews with 30 entrepreneurs.
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Spar franchise to open in Fair City's Carrigstown
03.Nov.2011 RTÉ's ‘Fair City’ character Christy Phelan’s shop in Carrigstown is being turned into a Spar as part of an overall marketing investment of €900k over the next three years.
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Tesco enters the pharmacy market in Ireland
03.Nov.2011 In a move which marks a threat to independent Irish pharmacists, Tesco has opened its first pharmacy, in Naas, Co Kildare and is opening a second in Balbriggan, Co Dublin.
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Close Brothers enters Irish market targeting SMEs
03.Nov.2011 UK specialist finance group Close Brothers has extended its operations in Ireland and is targeting SMEs with tailor-made asset and invoice finance packages.
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Two UL projects shine at clinical innovation awards
03.Nov.2011 A team at the Centre for Applied Biomedical Engineering Research at the University of Limerick (UL) have won an award for their safety device for improved deployment of transurethral catheters.
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'Build Your Own Website for Free' seminar coming up
03.Nov.2011 Kildare-based web solutions provider BusinessBloomer.ie is giving a presentation as part of Innovation Dublin 2011 on how to get online for free and build strong search engine optimisation rankings.
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Dublin Zoo -- 10 years and Ireland's top tourist attraction
02.Nov.2011 Dublin Zoo has emerged into a financially sound business entity, thanks in no small part to the passion and focus of its director Leo Oosterweghel.