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Cosmetics firm Sisu sitting pretty after securing deal with Harvey Nichols

The bricks-and-mortar treatments chain is to open clinics within department stores as it targets international expansion

The Big Interview

Exclusive interview: Inside ‘Mr China’ Liam Casey’s audacious bid to revive Slendertone

The Cork man is taking on a brand whose muscle toning products were once hugely popular but it ended up in liquidation as trends changed. Now he’s back with a plan to target fitness freaks not ‘beer-drinking couch potatoes’

Phelan leads €500,000 funding round in Irish hair transplant firm

Irish entrepreneur sees Grow Club as filling gap in market for affordable service in Ireland, Britain and northern Europe

Limbo in talks with US military on weight-loss platform adoption

Limbo uses tech to create an individualised approach to losing weight

Irish co-founded Limbo raises $6m from a who’s who of backers

Health and wellness service uses real-time biodata to create an individualised approach to lose weight

Beware of ‘advisers’ seeking equity, say tech investors

Experts warn that such equity arrangements would immediately make serious investors wary of any start-up that engaged in them