Drug delivery company United Drug is to invest €40m in upgrading its Dublin headquarters in a move which will significantly expand its capacity in the coming years.

Cork scientists have uncovered a dietary mechanism to reverse the effects of stress.

Dublin-based diversified healthcare services group UDG Healthcare has started putting the money it raised from last year’s sale of its legacy Irish businesses to work by acquiring international auditing firm STEM Marketing for a total consideration of £84m (€94.2m).

Credit unions, the National Concert Hall, one of the German retail discounters, a savings bank, An Post, and Penneys are the among the companies and brands that score best in delivering satisfaction to Irish customers, a major survey has found.

Shares at Dublin-based UDG Healthcare soared as it agreed to sell two units of its business to the parent company of Lloyds Pharmacy for €407.5m in a bid to reshape its structure.

Tracy Ryan uses edible ingredients in her Bia Beauty natural skin-care products, because the skin absorbs 60% of what is put on it. Her business began in her spare room and now sells to 100 stores nationwide.

The Irish Family Planning Association is calling on the government to implement a national sexual health programme.

Leading supermarket chain SuperValu has confirmed it ordered all stores to remove Israeli carrots from their shelves.

YOUNG women today are nearly three times more sexually active than those of their grandmothers’ generation in the liberal heyday of the Swinging 60s, according to a survey.

THE average British man or woman has indirectly slept with 2.8 million people, according to figures published yesterday.

An instore radio company set up by former Radio One DJ Bruno Brookes today announced it is rolling-out broadcasting in Ikea stores across the UK.

British bank HSBC's customers are to get the chance to tap their feet to music as they stand in queues for cashiers’ desks, it emerged today.