Based in West Cork, Global Shares provides international companies with employee share schemes, and after a bumper 2012, it is now looking to hire additional staff for its Clonakilty headquarters, writes Trish Dromey

In figures released today, financial services and mortgage broker group IFG announced pre-tax profits of €15m for the year ending December 2007, up 23% on the previous year.

IFG Group Plc, Ireland’s smallest publicly-traded financial-services company, will beat its target of doubling earnings per share by 2007 as the business benefits from a reorganisation, chief Executive Officer Richard Hayes said.