Cost pressures, skills shortages and a potential ‘Brexit’ are among the chief risks Irish exporters currently face, according to the head of their representative body.

New figures show that three units of Irish-based drug giant UDG Healthcare received payments totalling over €112m from the HSE in 2013.

RETAIL developments in Cork in the coming months suggest the marketing of the Wilton Shopping Centre, in a portfolio offer, and TK Maxx opening up in the former Tesco unit in Douglas Shopping Centre.

Quick Fit Car, in Little Island, Cork, has been crowned the best garage in Ireland, collecting the ‘independent workshop of the year 2015’ award at the Irish Auto Trade Association’s awards ceremony in the Citywest Hotel, Dublin.

Kearys is celebrating the launch of Kearys’ Motorworld, the new state-of-the-art Nissan dealership on the Carrigrohane Road, and formerly the premises of Windsor Motors.

Save water and energy with the Baby Dam Bath Barrier which turns your family bath into a baby’s bath.

China-based founder and chief executive of PCH International, Liam Casey, will be among the speakers at the Cork Chamber of Commerce 2012 business conference.

Not one, but two governments — and their two currencies — are behind the agency and lease at a property investment just up for sale with a price tag of nearly €4m.

Sacked haulage firm workers are staging a sit-in after one of the country’s largest companies ceased trading with the loss of nearly 400 jobs.

THIS IS shaping up as the Christmas when everybody wants to support local industry.

THE auction offering of 65 discounted Irish properties was as damp a squib as the day outside was a washout.

BUSINESS leaders and community groups in south and east Cork are joining forces to develop a job creation strategy, with a strong focus on green economy opportunities.

CORK-based engineering firm, Dornan said sales will be up 30% this year to €65 million while increasing its workforce by a third to 720 employees.

A LEGAL action against three businessmen aimed at recovering loans of €31.5 million for developments in Cork has been adjourned after agreement was reached “in principle” with two of the defendants.

Union leaders fear a generation could be lost to unemployment as numbers claiming state benefit today soared to more than 400,000 for the first time on record.

A HIGH COURT judge has expressed concern the credit crisis is leading to “a much greater risk of failure” for companies placed under court protection.

A CORK ready-meals company that employs 125 people is said to have a reasonable prospect of survival following the appointment of an examiner.

Quinn Insurance is expected to announce a major jobs boost this week with up to 350 new positions being created at the company's office complex in Little Island, Cork.

MAKING your business greener using technology will save you money.

WILLIAM O’Brien Plant Hire doubled its profits to €1.56 million last year.

THE Port of Cork Company has signed a contract for a new pilot launch following a competitive international tender process.