Company Formation Ireland

Italian angel investor Gianni Matera, who has ploughed €900,000 in six Irish start-ups over the last 15 months, is to take his investment tally in Ireland to €4 million by 2020. The serial entrepreneur’s Dublin-based boutique investment firm Growing Capital, is looking to grow its seed investment value by 300 per cent in five years, largely through backing Irish start-ups. Among the Irish start-ups the fi [...]

The jury is still out on whether the Brexit fallout and the surge in the value of the euro may or may not leak revenues, but for a second year something significant is happening under our noses with corporate tax revenues. Despite the glare on the potential loss of Vat taxes as shoppers brave the parking at the shopping outlets of Newry, Belfast, and Derry, corporate tax revenues are back in the spotligh [...]

 Irish Residential Properties REIT (Ires) has generated net income of €5.5 million between July and the end of September 2016. This compares to €3.6 million for the same period last year, a gain of 53 per cent, largely due to acquisitions and strong organic growth, the company said in a trading update. “There is a pipeline for growth available through further sales by the National Asset Management Agenc [...]

Over 200 business leaders attended the annual Business in the Community CEO Breakfast Forum at Dublin Castle last week, where the companies certified to the Business Working Responsibly Mark so far in 2016 were announced.  The Mark, which is run by Business in the Community Ireland, is independently audited by the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI). Seven companies were accredited to the Mark [...]

THE share of research and development work done in the private sector here is among the highest in Europe. But the Government here is unusually weak when it comes to direct funding of innovation. Over 60pc of all workers involved in R&D are working full-time in the private sector, making Ireland only second to Sweden in the 28-member bloc. More than 30pc of those working in R&D here work in third- [...]