Here is a selection of eight people who have recently begun interesting new roles with companies based in Ireland.

The managing director of one of the largest family-owned businesses in the country, the Gowan Group, said yesterday that the scarcity of new housing has held back the performance of its appliance and consumer electronics business.

Food technology company Gowan Comercio has appointed Croplink as its exclusive distributor in Ireland for the potato blight fungicide Electis.

THE owners of Wexford-based Senator Windows are in line for a multimillion euro windfall after selling the company to the Gowan Group.