Ryanair eyes technology, retail projects

Ryanair Holdings may add technology startups and retail businesses as potential acquisition targets as Europe’s biggest discount airline seeks to develop its online presence and boost ancillary sales.

Any such purchases would be “small things: content businesses, retail opportunities,” said chief marketing officer Kenny Jacobs in an interview in London yesterday.

“There are lots of things that could be interesting” over the next 10 years, with any deals targeted at “improving the product, the distribution and the service” rather than amounting to a distraction from the main business of flying.