Pre-tax profits at Irish-owned pharmacy chain, Sam McCauley last year more than doubled to €4.23m in spite of revenues remaining flat for the year.

Nama yesterday put its first retail park portfolio on the market for a guide price of €110m.

One4all has added a range of new online retail partners just in time for the festive season.

The decision to award a monopoly to a Swiss multi-national to produce new credit card style driving licences will have a devastating effect on photo ID professionals here and could put up to 4,000 jobs in jeopardy.

Pre-tax profits at pharmacy chain Sam McCauley Chemists increased by nearly €2m last year, to just over €3.61m, accounts filed with the Companies Registration Office show.

A pathologist’s assistant who became addicted to anti-depression medication was apprehended in Cork trying to get Xanax with a forged prescription.

Health Minister James Reilly has urged more pharmacies to follow Boots Ireland’s lead and reduce the price of prescription medicines.

Sam McCauley Chemists Group said today that it will abolish all mark-ups on prescription medicines.

Founded in 2009 with the aim of creating a pillow that would be impervious to infection, Gabriel Scientific has seen its hermetically sealed pillow used in hospitals around Europe, but is not resting on its laurels and has ambitious growth plans, writes Trish Dromey

ONE of the country’s biggest pharmacy chains, Sam McCauley Chemists, said that this is a year of belt-tightening and it has no plans for store openings.

ONE of the country’s biggest pharmacy chains, Sam McCauley Chemists, saw its pre-tax profit fall last year in what is described as an extremely difficulty trading environment.

PHARMACY chain Sam McCauley plans to expand its operations this year following sales of more than €79 million in 2007 — an increase of 13%.

CHEMIST chain Sam McCauley is to invest €1.9 million in a joint venture with Amplifon to develop a new hearing aid test. The venture will initially create 10 jobs.

SEVERAL of the country’s most successful businessmen and women will share their tips and secrets with the next generation of budding movers and shakers, testing their mettle and checking if they have the entrepreneurial skill or E-Factor, to succeed.

THE first chief executive-in-residence at the Waterford School of Business has been named as pharmacist Sam McCauley.

WATERFORD’S leading business people hope to pick up a few tips from an Olympic coach and some of the country’s leading entrepreneurs tomorrow as a major retail conference gets under way.

AN ALL-ROUND honours student who debated his way around the world while at college was named UCC’s Graduate of the Year yesterday.

ALL seven of the Sam McCauley Beauty Spas and Salons were awarded Guinot ‘Crown Salon’ status this week, meaning the Group walked away with almost half of the Irish awards at this year’s ceremony, which was held in Britain.

THE Sam McCauley Chemists Group investment in expansion this year will hit €12.5 million as the company targets a doubling of turnover to €100m by 2008.

THE final bill from the storms that lashed the country over the last two days could run into tens of millions of euros.