1-in-4 creditor meetings for construction sector firms

ONE-in-four of all creditor meetings held in the secondquarter of this year were for firms in the construction industry.

According to figures from Inter Company Comparisons (ICC Information) there were 229 creditors meeting held in the second quarter of this year with three out of four of these concerning Dublin-based companies.

There were no creditors’ meetings for companies based in Carlow, Waterford of Sligo, while there were 16 in Limerick, 12 in Galway and 10 in Cork and Mayo. While 59 meetings concerned the construction industry, 32 concerned wholesale, 26 manufacturing, 25 hotel and restaurants and 21 the retail sector.