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68% of consumers reported spending more online in 2020 than they did in 2019.
Throughout the fund, 200 small businesses will be given a tailored advertising package worth €5,000 each.
The Small Firms Association is calling for a national Small Business Strategy to improve small business performance.
The English Market, a fresh food venue and meeting place, is over 200 years old.
Some 200,000 people are employed here due to trade between Ireland and the UK.
The next budget is gearing up to be pretty generous one. It’s the latest in the pre-election extravaganza…
Back pain, anxiety and depression were the biggest contributors to absenteeism in 2014.
But owner-operators say they are still taking far to long to get paid when they do get contracts.
Protecting the public or stifling SMEs?
ISME also says keeping the 12.5% corporation tax is essential to the recovery.
Police said a number of business people have already been defrauded out of significant sums of money.
The manufacturing sector is proving to be a “cause of concern”.
State owned bank put €4.2bn into the market last year.
Stephen Donnelly wants to amend the Companies Act to facilitate an easier examinership process.
And more importantly – how can they be prevented?
The Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation said it is working to promote greater awareness of the scheme in the business community.
The small and medium-sized firms’ body says increasing the minimum wage forces employers to pay more than the going rate.
Minister Joan Burton has called for a rise in the current wage of €8.65 per hour. Do you agree with her?
The Small Firms Association has said that a lowering of the cost of employment along with strong political leadership is required for economic recovery.
The funds will be used to invest in both healthy businesses seeking to grow and those that are under-performing.
The Superquinn founder and independent senator tops a survey of Irish small and medium enterprises.
The latest ISME survey of its members shows a slight improvement in satisfaction, but still wide antipathy.
A number of County and City Enterprise Boards have been granted additional funding to meet demand.
IBF chief executive Pat Farrell says he had not seen the report but rejected the findings which are reported this morning.
The Minister for Jobs said small businesses should be a “powerful engine” for recovery.
Small Firms Association survey states that 83 per cent believe a yes vote likely but members would welcome a growth package.
Unemployed people who start companies are branded “involuntary entrepreneurs” – but they should be hailed as heroes, writes business owner Peter Faulkner.
Almost half of businesses in the InterTradeIreland study were either shrinking, struggling or winding up entirely.
New results from the Small Firms Association show that seven per cent of firms decreased pay in the past year.