Retail

Lidl Announce At Least 100 New Jobs Before Christmas

Lidl is to open a second store in Swords Co. Dublin next week and also a store in Glenageary in early December reports Independent.ie. The new stores wi...

PwC Total Retail Survey Outlines The Mobile Challenge Facing Retailers

Irish retailers need to adapt their business models or risk being overwhelmed by the demands of a mobile-empowered consumer base, a new report from PwC has...

Total Retail Trade Rose 6.1% In Ireland In 2015, Eurostat Reports

According to new figures released by Eurostat, Ireland’s total retail trade rose by 6.1% in 2015. This rate of growth was the second highest in th...

FDII: Regulations Will Create A ‘Fair Trading Environment’

Ibec group Food & Drink Industry Ireland has welcomed the signing into law of new grocery regulations by Enterprise Minister Richard Bruton, saying...

Tesco Ireland Continues To Show Improvement With Positive Christmas Sales Figures

Tesco Ireland has posted a sales decline of 1.2% in the third quarter of the year, according to a trading statement issued this morning (14 January). Th...

Dealz Parent Poundland Announces Sales Growth In Q3 2015

Poundland Group, which operates Dealz in the Republic of Ireland, has announced total sales growth of 29.4 per cent, excluding its Spanish business, for th...

Irish Retail Sector On Course To Meet Festive Growth Targets

Irish retail representative group Retail Ireland has said that it is ‘optimistic’ that Christmas 2015 would meet earlier positive expectations....

Footfall Down In Northern Irish Stores As Weak Euro Provides Temptation

Traditionally, this time of year sees a large number of Irish consumers head over the border to Northern Ireland in search of bargains ahead of the festive...