Family-owned bookseller Dubray Books last year posted its “best trading performance since the recession” as it recorded profits of €495,589.

Food is the focus of a day-long business seminar in West Cork next week, featuring the high-profile Happy Pear brothers and Masterchef judge, Nick Munier.

IT ALL comes back to France. That country’s wine sales may have fallen dramatically in recent years, but it is still the benchmark producer for most grape varieties and wine styles.

C&C may need to support its pear cider offering with further new products to boost sales volumes, according to analysts.

SHARES in drinks group, C&C rose by nearly 8% – or 15c – yesterday to €2.05 after an independent survey of Irish publicans showed that early take up of its new pear cider product has been strong.