Insects can be the next great food source, a Meath start-up tells Trish Dromey

Midleton firm is expanding with its cryogenic cleaning service, writes Trish Dromey.

Trish Dromey looks at a Valentia-based business making waves in the competitive world of boat building.

Marek Szepietowski tells Trish Dromey how the firm he founded is meeting the EU-driven demand for quality training manuals.

Cutting-edge technology at Sonitus Systems is helping to revolutionise the noise monitoring sector, writes Trish Dromey.

With exports to Germany, Italy and the UK, Solaris Botanicals’ western-style herbal teas are winning new customers, and it is eyeing a surprising new marketplace — China, writes Trish Dromey.

Growth at Aaron Value Adding Services, the electronic circuit manufacturing facility, has been helped because some firms are now moving back from sending manufacturing to Asia, writes Trish Dromey.

CHRISTMAS came with an extra buzz for Sligo company Quickcrop when it won the innovation award at the National Enterprise Awards earlier this month.

Margarita Gruber was able to leverage her international background when she spied a gap in Dublin’s hospitality market. Providing multilingual tourist excursions made her a finalist in the National Enterprise Awards, writes Trish Dromey

THE winner of this year’s National Enterprise Awards, Co Wexford company Innovate Business Technologies, has been capitalising on opportunities thrown up by the recession.

Export growth is the target for an e-commerce enterprise, says Trish Dromey

THE export possibilities of Irish sea salt are now being explored by a small West Cork company which has set up a processing plant close to the coast on the Beara Peninsula.

In the depths of the economic slump Tipperary firm AdSmart has built up a business devising marketing strategies for embattled retailers struggling to maintain footfall in their stores.

TIMES may be hard, but the smartphone and the cloud computing revolutions are helping Action Point Group, in Limerick, achieve significant sales growth.

This year’s finalists for the 15th annual National Enterprise Awards have been announced.

Eight small companies from all over the country will be unveiled as finalists for the National Enterprise Awards today.

AN innovative pay parking utility will fly the flag for Cork at the National Enterprise Awards final next week.

THE County Enterprise Boards have helped create close to 27,000 full-time and almost 4,000 part-time jobs across the country over the past decade, Defence Minister, Michael Smith, said yesterday.