Profit & Loss inside the world of private Irish businesses

Gresham Hotel in central Dublin

Irish book publisherPoolbeg Press– which publishes such bestselling authors as Marian Keyes, Maeve Binchy, Patricia Scanlan, Cathy Kelly and Sheila O’Flanagan – accumulated profits of €718,892 in 2017, up from €695,352 the year before.

Poolbeg was founded in 1976 and is currently controlled by the Devlin family.

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Crowley Carbon, the energy efficiency company founded by Norman Crowley, had accumulated profits of €630,507 in 2017, up from €291,057, after it made a profit ...