Guided at €4.25 million for owners Aviva Investors, the sale of the landmark 1970s office block 89/90 South Mall is in a pivot position in Cork’s CBD.

Recruitment firms on the move and in an upward trajectory themselves can be seen as a bellweather of change in the wider economy. Thus, the denizens of Cork’s South Mall will be glad to see the arrival of not one, but two such firms to the South Mall: FRS Recruitment, and IT recruitment specialists Stelfox.

THE winner of this year’s National Enterprise Awards, Co Wexford company Innovate Business Technologies, has been capitalising on opportunities thrown up by the recession.