Jeweller Paul Sheeran is having an especially busy run up to Christmas. He has just opened a Montblanc store off Dublin’s Grafton Street, and is working with several luxury watch brands to open a cluster of high end watch boutiques off nearby Chatham Street.
Accumulated profits at two beauty brand businesses where Suzanne Jackson, the woman behind the fashion and lifestyle blog SoSueMe, is a director have continued growing as the business expands in the UK and EU.
The boss of Vaultree, a Cork-based cyber security company, has said some innovative Irish startups are choosing to move their fledgling businesses to other countries due to difficulties around funding, product adoption and market entry.