Upwardly mobile

The timing was not exactly perfect when Fergus Sweeney decided to blow off a pensionable, permanent job in favour of his own start-up company to be run from his parents' garage. Sweeney was just married. He had bought a new house and was “mortgaged to the gills'‘.

Four years on, the importer and distributor of mobile phones and mobile phone accessories, presides over a business with annual sales of €65 million, has moved ...