The number of companies that have gone out of business in the year to date is up by 3% on the same period in 2011, but a “levelling out” of the extent of business failures is becoming evident.

A shopping centre built at a cost of over €20m, with 450-space multistorey car park, 16 vacant shops and one rented, seven offices, and a restaurant space, is for sale for €950,000.

An entire shopping centre investment, with 16 vacant shop units, 450-space multi-storey car park, and six office units is for sale in market town Charleville via Savills — for €950,000.

For years, he hired or fired aspiring entrepreneurs — but time has now been called on Bill Cullen’s main business interests.

There has been a 77% increase in the number of retail businesses that have failed this year compared to the same period last year, according to Insolvency-journal.ie.

It was a case of being in the right place at the right time for a young couple who walked away from a property auction with their dream home.

APPROXIMATELY 170 Irish companies went bust every month in 2011, a new report shows.

THE entrepreneur Domhnal Slattery’s Jetbird venture accumulated losses of €11.4 million before the appointment of a wind-down manager for the ill-fated project.

ALMOST five companies have gone bust every day from January to June 2011, according to InsolvencyJournal.ie’s latest figures.

Thirty firms went bust every week last year, a business study revealed today.

THE number of insolvencies fell slightly last month following a rise in September but the overall figure for 2010 is set to be higher than last year.

MORE than 37 start-ups a day were set-up in the first six months of this year.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP is alive and well as the number of new businesses registered soared 20% in the last year.

A TOTAL of 917 companies went bust in the first seven months of 2010 as the impact of the recession continued to hit businesses hard.

Company records showed the rate of insolvencies has fallen for the third month in a row but the number of businesses shutting their doors for good was more than 25% higher this year than the same period in 2009.

FOUR companies a day are going bust as company failure rates continue to soar – up 27% year-on-year – yet one in two firms are planning for the upturn in the economy.

MORE than 400 companies have been declared insolvent in the first three months of 2010, a more than 200% increase on the same period in 2008.

Figures released today show a 25% increase in business insolvencies in the first quarter of 2010 compared to the same period last year, up from 320 to 402.

AN average of five companies per day went out of business last month, as the rate of business failures jumped by 33% on January’s levels.

FOUR companies a day are going out of business with the number of insolvencies expected to hit an all-time record of more than 1,400 by the end of the year.

A BUYER has been found for the Irish-owned classified sales business Buy & Sell, which went into examinership in June.