by WTCD | Sep 15, 2014 | News
Heineken said it had “consulted with its majority shareholder” before rejecting the approach. It said the Heineken family, the founding family which still owns half of the firm, wanted to preserve the firm as “an independent company”. Heineken...
by WTCD | Sep 15, 2014 | News
“The merger will result in the creation of the world’s number one integrated leisure tourism business… with enhanced long-term growth prospects,” a joint statement from the two companies said. Today’s news follows an announcement in June...
by WTCD | Sep 15, 2014 | News
The Labour Party minister said the State was paying out €500m a year in “corporate welfare” through family income support and it was now time for big business to make more of a contribution. “Many of those people are working for multinational...
by WTCD | Sep 12, 2014 | News
Apple Ireland is over reliant on royalty fees booked by multinational companies that pass through the country without always creating much in the way of local jobs or productive investment, leading management consultancy McKinsey has warned. The country “has...
by WTCD | Sep 12, 2014 | News
Hewlett-Packard plans to buy cloud software startup Eucalyptus Software, a rare acquisition for the company since its failed $11 billion purchase of Britain’s Autonomyin 2011. HP did not say how much it will pay for Eucalyptus, which provides open-source software for...