Business faces scale of change, says CCI

AS many as 25,000 businesses will not exist in 10 years time unless they become much more competitive, the Chambers of Commerce of Ireland warned yesterday.

Chambers of Commerce of Ireland (CCI) chief executive John Dunne, speaking at their National Business Forum 2005, said there were 100,000 trading companies in Ireland.

“The top 1,000 of them account for 80% of our exports.