Small Business Can

Are you sick of sick leave?

In this current economic climate, it is imperative that all aspects of the business are functioning efficiently and effectively. Costs need to be monitored and kept to a minimum. One such area is sick leave.

Small businesses in Ireland loose on average Read more...

Chef cooking up a storm

Fine dining doesn't require fine restaurants. As the recession has hit incomes, so more people have turned to home cooking and the Chef Shop has benefited as a result.

Vincent McKenna, himself an experienced chef, Read more...

Pure success at Hillsdown water

It might be thought that water is self-evidently a healthy drink. But various scares have led to some consumers questioning this.

First there was the Perrier Water crisis , when traces of benzene were found in some bottles. Read more...

Micro Brewery Thinking Big

That Hilden Brewery is one of only two independent brewing companies in Northern Ireland and the longest established business of its kind still operating on the island, says a lot about the challenges micro breweries in this part of the world face. But the tiny firm has big plans, with its sights set on overseas markets and on growing Read more...

Appeal for Help!

We’ve started putting all the topics that have been discussed on this site over the past seven or eight months and we’re coming up with a programme that hopefully anyone starting a business in Ireland will find useful.

While the programme is grounded in real issues Read more...