TAKING a 21st Century approach to the spare parts industry, Cork start-up company UrParts.com has created a website which companies any where in the world can use to source new and used parts for construction equipment.

A free “green network” which helps businesses cut costs by reusing byproducts and materials bound for landfill has doubled its membership in 18 months and is now poised to sign up its 1,000th member.

The West Cork Sea Salt Company has signed a deal valued at €250,000 with French chain Le Comptoir Irlandais.

The introduction of the single European payment area (Sepa) is bringing significant changes to the banking sector and creating opportunities for Cork-based data analytics company Nomos Software.

Cork County Council is to open two industrial-sized kitchens in Carrigaline before the year end which will be available to small-scale artisan food producers.

The sky is the limit for Keelvar, writes Trish Dromey with its procurement software attracting big-name customers

Food company Kinsale Gourmet has secured an export order worth €250,000 on foot of a trade mission to the UK trade fair IFE in March.

Eight south Cork food and drink companies estimate that they gained a collective €500,000 in new UK sales from their attendance at the IFE 2013 food and drinks fair in London.

AUSTRALIA was where Úna Martin got the idea to start an artisan food business.

Eight leading Irish artisan food and drink producers hope to expand their export channels on foot of meetings with leading UK retailers in London yesterday.

Cork software development company OneLook Systems is planning an aggressive sales push in the US this year with an electronic permit-to-work solution for regulated industries called SafePermit.

Sales of the 100,000 gluten-free mince pies being produced by Cork company Delicious this Christmas, have been boosted by a gold medal in the annual UK Great Taste Awards.

As winter arrives and sales of soup increase, Cobh-based company, Just Food is finding new markets in Europe for winter minestrone, spicy lentil and Moroccan chickpea.

Those who want to get healthy are embracing the benefits of Virginia Health Food’s products writes Trish Dromey

FOR anybody involved in the food industry, a major event being held in Cork tonight is certainly not one to miss.

A MOUTH-WATERING networking event will be served up to the people of Cork next week.

SMILE – your rubbish is about to get a new lease of life.

ENTREPRENEURIAL talent in the near €20 billion Irish food and drinks industry needs to be continually nurtured, the inaugural Cork Food Forum was told in Ballincollig

SOME of the country’s top food industry analysts will gather in Cork later this month to discuss the future of the multi-billion euro industry.

THE first networking event of its kind in this country is expected to provide a massive boost to the Cork economy as it attracts companies from the US, Slovakia and Romania.

A NEW generation of entrepreneurs and innovators has been honoured by Cork Institute of Technology (CIT).

A PUBLIC servant accused of taking bung payments so that he might favourably review grant applications has had all charges against him dropped.

The jury was discharged this afternoon in the case against a former managing director of South Cork Enterprise Board as they could not reach agreement on any of the charges of receiving corrupt payments for securing job creation grants for a company.

The jury in the case against a former managing director of South Cork Enterprise Board who denies receiving corrupt payments for securing job creation grants for a company was sent to a hotel overnight as they have not yet reached a verdict.

The jury in the case against a former managing director of South Cork Enterprise Board who denies receiving corrupt payments for securing job creation grants for a company was sent to a hotel overnight as they have not yet reached a verdict.

A former managing director of South Cork Enterprise Board received corrupt payments for securing job creation grants for a company, it was claimed on the opening day of his trial today.

DON’T dump it — swap it.

THE fifth Annual Cork Institute of Technology Prize for Innovation will take place in the CIT Student Centre today.

BUSINESSES are being urged to sign up to an online waste exchange which could divert tonnes of materials including packaging, disused office furniture and construction waste away from landfills.

The UCC Enterprise Society will host the awards ceremony of its annual Good Ideas Competition next Thursday.