Irish business start-up East Coast Bakehouse had an ambition for rapid growth in a saturated industry. Enterprise Ireland’s funding helped them quickly turn their initial research into a reality.
This week, see and hear more from Enterprise Ireland's #GlobalAmbition media campaign on RTE Radio 1 and the Irish Times.
Sunday Independent: Sweden is predicted to be a cashless society within five years. Approximately 15 Enterprise Ireland fintech clients are already engaged in the Nordic market and there's room for more.
Minister Charlie Flanagan has pledged to underline Ireland's commitment to the European Union during an Enterprise Ireland trade mission to the Middle East.
When Lulu O’Sullivan, chief executive of successful online retail company GiftsDirect.com, decided to scale up in 2008, she enrolled in Enterprise Ireland's Leadership4Growth programme - a move that proved crucial to the business’s subsequent success.
The Southeast Asian market has grown by 50 per cent in the last year and offers great opportunities for Irish businesses, with Vietnam being a great base to enter and supply the region.
Enterprise Ireland has said it will need to develop “contingency plans” to protect indigenous Irish businesses if US president-elect Donald Trump moves to repatriate American multinational firms.
With ground-breaking biotechnology capable of turning contaminated arable land back into fertile fields, Carlow start-up MicroGen Biotech is aiming to clean up in China.
The Competitive Start Fund exclusively targeting female entrepreneurs will see €50,000 set aside for up to 10 successful applicants who have the potential to employ more than 10 people and achieve €1m in export sales within three years.
Co-Founders of Modern Botany, Simon Jackson and John Murray, hope their expertise in natural-sourced medicine will give them the edge in the additive-free skincare market.
Anam Technologies signed a new deal with Ericsson during the presidential visit to Vietnam. Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Charles Flanagan TD, believes this is a key partnership in the company’s growth in Asian markets.
The two day Scottish visit aimed to raise the profile of Ireland as a country that is growing and embracing the use of energy efficient technologies in design, construction and engineering processes.
Doing business in the Middle East has become more challenging in recent years - the process of getting a product or service on the market there is not as easy as it used to be. Enterprise Ireland Market Advisors discuss the challenges and opportunities for key sectors, in particular aviation and security.
Enterprise Ireland congratulated Datahug, the Irish data analytics company, on its acquisition by global software company CallidusCloud last week. Enterprise Ireland has supported Datahug since the year it was founded.
It's a European first as the Startup Nations Summit lands in Cork for Global Entrepreneurship Week 2016 - taking place on 19 November, the Summit is one of many events organised for startups, entrepreneurs, policymakers and stakeholders in the startup ecosystem.