Down To Business

From wardrobe makeovers to confidence boosts, personal styling has become a growing industry, helping people decide not just what to wear, but how they want to be seen.
But what does the business of personal styling actually look like in Ireland? Who is paying for these services, and how has the industry evolved?
For this week’s Industry Review, we’re looking at the world of personal stylists with three experts from the sector.
Joining Bobby are:
Conor Levey, Personal Shopper at Brown Thomas

Heather Shelley Fitzpatrick, Personal Stylist

Eider Leite, Personal Shopper and co-founder of New Chapter,

Irish food businesses are facing higher costs on almost every front, but many are still planning to invest. Bobby travels to Wilton Terrace in Dublin, to ask Mark Moriarty why this is.

Now, running a business can be all-consuming, and without the right systems in place it's easy to become trapped in the day-to-day.
In his new book, Build, Scale, Sell, entrepreneur Paul Flavin uses the fictional story of a business owner to explore the four pillars of building a successful company: marketing, sales, operations and finance.
Paul joins Bobby to discuss.

How is the Irish food sector doing? With external threats like fuel and fertilizer costs and domestic costs going up around labour, is it a good time to be a producer?
Bobby was joined by Conor Kilduff, CEO of Love Irish Food and Lucy Ryan, Head of Food & Beverage at Bank of Ireland to discuss.

Joining Bobby to go through the main business stories from the Saturday papers is Robert Whelan, Managing Director of Rockwell, and Louisa Meehan, of Woodview HRM.