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Peachylean boss says fundraising environment is ‘really treacherous’

Sharon Keegan says Irish athleisure firm raised €500,000, but it had hoped to raise twice that amount

The Big Interview

‘Someone I didn’t know was wearing our blue hoodie. It was a good omen’ – Niall Horgan, Gym+Coffee

Niall Horgan and his two Gym+Coffee co-founders have driven their athleisure wear start-up forward with vigour and an ambition to ‘be everywhere’. They are now setting their sights on international expansion, with the goal of becoming a globally recognised Irish brand

Computer vision start-up Everyangle raises €2.7m

Sure Valley Ventures, Act Venture Capital and Furthr VC co-lead round for company which provides insights to offline businesses in retail and hospitality

A ‘dystopian hellscape’: How China created modern-day concentration camps for its ethnic minorities

As the Chinese government denies the systematic oppression, torture, rape, sterilisation and mass imprisonment of Uyghur Muslims and other minorities, goods made through detainees’ enforced labour flood western high streets – the fruits of China’s so-called ‘education’ camps

Cosmetics company prepares to launch in Britain and Middle East

The owner of fast-rising make-up brand Sculpted by Aimee, which just opened a flagship store on Grafton Street, also has the US in her sights

Aran Woollen Mills to launch consumer website and add 50 jobs in expansion plan

Mayo-based family company is due to be have a second manufacturing facility up and running in the area later this year

Commercial Property

Ecco leases on Grafton Street as outlets begin to return to city centre

The shoe shop is the second Danish retailer after Lego to occupy space on the Dublin city centre shopping street

Commercial Property

Early Christmas present of €50,000 up for grabs for one lucky business

Winner of Champion Green competition will win a pop-up retail store in Blackrock Village Centre in Dublin, worth over €50k over a period of six months

Retail outlook a mixed bag with improved activity but worries for future

Post-pandemic, Irish households have record savings on deposit, but rising prices and fears of a recession have meant that consumer sentiment remains cautious

Lego confident of building on success with new Dublin store

The Danish toy company’s new outlet on Grafton Street opened last week, and one of its senior executives describes the store as being in a ‘perfect location’

Chatham and King development in Dublin 2 now fully leased

The last space at the commercial and residential scheme next to Grafton Street, the 9,000 square feet basement, has been leased

Dirty old town: can Dublin’s trashed reputation be restored?

Anti-social behaviour, litter, derelict buildings: for many who work and live in Dublin, the capital feels like a shadow of its former self. What can be done to rescue the soul of the city?

Athleisure brand Gym+Coffee raises fresh €17 million in funding

The business has expanded its retail footprint to 12 stores over the past three years, and now has 200 staff

Irish start-up Bobbie on Target as big box US retailer takes on its infant formula

Company behind European-style organic formula for the US market increases production as national shortage continues

Dubray Books eyes nationwide expansion after recent Dublin and Cork openings

The bookseller, which is owned by Eason Ireland, has a network of 11 stores with nine based in the capital

Property Sector

Strong investment demand will support deal flow in 2022

While risks remain in the domestic market, all the indications are that interest in Irish property remains high

Fast-fashion giant Shein to build out a team of senior staff in Ireland

Chinese online clothes retailer plans to hire a number of people in its Dublin office including a legal head and a head of finance

Commercial property

Four-storey D4 building presents management opportunity

No 19 Baggot Street in Dublin 4 has come to the market with a guide price of €1.2 million

People facing ‘unprecedented increases in cost of living’, Tesco Group chief says

The supermarket giant has noted customers switching to own-label brands, while sales have dropped by 2.4 per cent in 13 weeks

One in four Irish young people buying counterfeit goods

A survey by the EU’s Intellectual Property Office found that 52 per cent of young people in Europe had bought at least one fake product online over the past year