Start-ups
Eight steps to success for food entrepreneurs
Annie Dunne, who spent ten years leading the product development team for the food halls at Harrods in London, offers her advice for budding and existing producers and brands
Making It Work: Supplements producer makes a healthy start
The company was formed after a chance encounter and Every Body Health will launch its products in pharmacies next month
Making It Work: Wedding Wizard service makes it easier to say ‘I do’
Kayleigh and Mike Breen came up with the idea for The Wedding Wizard after facing the stresses of planning their own big day from abroad
The new autograph: stars give fans their own shoutout with a Cameo appearance
When the pandemic put actors and sports stars temporarily out of work, tech firm Cameo signed many of them up to its service providing personalised video messages for their fans
Making It Work: Finance start-up aims to make funding home loans fair
Initiative Ireland’s new partnership will allow credit unions to lend to Approved Housing Bodies
Making It Work: Agri-tech start-up hatches a plan for poultry sector
An Irish-owned firm based in the Philippines develops technology to tackle issues caused by labour shortage in poultry farming
Accelerate the positive: tech trends to watch out for in 2021
Twelve months ago, we couldn’t have imagined the great leaps in health technology and remote working. What does this year have in store?
Making It Work: Helping consumers to hunt down best deals on household bills
Cost comparison website Renewaldiary.com, founded by Cormac Horan and Fiachra Ó Comhraí in 2017, aims to assist individuals in crowdsourcing the best deals out there
‘Instead of creating world-class rugby players, we’re creating world class companies’
A consortium of start-up hubs will manage the National Digital Research Centre to invest in new firms through regional centres led by Dogpatch Labs’ Patrick Walsh
Making it work: Labour of love as Grown eco brand branches out into gift of native trees
For every Woodland Card purchased from Grown clothing firm, a native Irish tree will be planted on a Grown Forest plot on the buyer’s behalf
Making It Work: Irish map start-up to expand after deal in Singapore
PlantQuest, which provides a Google Maps-type service for big factories that cannot use GPS, has received €650,000 in new funding
Making It Work: Tanning brand uses influencers to give its products a glow
Bellamianta has been represented by Rebekah O’Leary, Faye Patricia Mills, Laura Kelly, Ashlee Coburn and Louise Cooney, while Maura Higgins is the face of the brand in Ireland