This Week
Eircom take over as sponsor of soccer team; Apple to double output from Cork plan; spending by tourists coming to Ireland is up 20%; 135 jobs lost in Tuam textile factory.
10 years ago
Eircom is to replace Opel as sponsor of the Irish soccer team two years ahead of schedule. The takeover will come in time for the first World Cup preliminary match against Holland.
Leading recruitment agency monster.com's Irish website, monster.ie, goes live this week. The expansion is backed by a £2m marketing budget.
Discount German grocer Lidl will open seven stores in Ireland this month, pitching its prices 30% below the established supermarket prices.
The Warner Textile plant in Mayo has announced it is to close with a loss of 100 jobs.
With an increase of over 25,000 customers, Bord Gáis has reported an increase to €68m in profits.
Cablelink changed its name this week to that of owner NTL marked by 80-second commercials screened on Irish television channels. The company is to offer digital television, telephone and internet services by the end of the summer.
20 years ago
More Mercedes-Benz cars have been sold in Ireland in the first five months of the year than in the entirety of last year.
Sales are expected to top 500 cars before the end of June, giving the company a 1% market share for the first time in almost 10 years.
Apple Computers plans to double the output of its Cork plant with further manufacturing expansion planned for mainland Europe. The company has announced plans to invest £15m in 30 companies over the next 10 years.
Bord na Móna have imported smokeless coal for sale on the £30m Dublin market as the September ban on smoky coal draws closer.
Newspaper owner Ralph Ingersoll has pulled out of the US in order to deal with heavy debts.
Ingersoll has minimised his operations to his European interests which include a 50% stake in Irish Press Newspapers.
30 years ago
Beamish and Crawford has reported a 25% increase in pre-tax profits which includes a tax rebate of over £93,000 from the Government.
CSO figures show a 20% increase in expenditure by tourists coming to Ireland, bringing the figure to £208.4m.
The Alliance and Dublin Gas Company has a precarious future with falling sales and an unsteady financial position. The company has reported a loss of nearly £1m for last year.
Companies in the TMG group have been forced to cut staffing levels due to trading difficulties. Restructuring has also occurred in the companies which include Massey-Ferguson Distributors, Pierce Wexford, Hammond Industries, Irish Containers and Samba Fyffe.
Despite recent VAT increase, Thor Appliances has made a deal with German "brown goods" manufacturer Korting. The Irish-owned electrical appliance company feel the company is well placed beside the standstill in the market.
40 years ago
Staff at Weir Mills in Tuam have learned that the factory is to close at the end of the month with the loss of 135 jobs for the town. 
Vita Cortex has won a £20,000 export order from a leading firm of suppliers and manufacturers of building components in the British Midlands.
With factories in Dublin and Belfast, the first consignment will be dispatched from their operations in Cork.
The new Longford County Council offices have been officially opened by P.M. Farrell, chairman of the council. The 25-roomed office block was built by Sligo based company GWI System Building Division.
According to a report by the Committee on Industrial Progress, only 20% of the output of the fruit and vegetable processing industry in this country is the result of Irish private enterprise.
The remaining 80% is shared by Erin Foods and companies with foreign participation.
