French skincare giant Yves Rocher is shedding jobs and cutting operational activity by a third at its Cork manufacturing plant.

A shop unit that traditionally would have been swamped by frantic, last-minute male shoppers seeking luxury Valentine Day gifts is now itself seeking proposals, and courting a new relationship.

BEAUTY care firm Yves Rocher is investing €3.7 million in its Cork operations, in a move that will create 30 jobs.

THE French businessman who is on a mission to plant 50 million trees around the world by 2014, has travelled to Blarney Castle to take in the estates’s arboretum which boasts a collection of trees that are up to 600 years old.