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Episode 248 - Alan Andrews, Old Barracks Coffee/Guji Coffee
We speak with Alan Andrews, founder of the Old Barracks Coffee Roastery and the Guji Coffee Chain about his ambition to make Limerick Ireland’s coffee capital and his plans for expansion. The business is scaling and will be approaching 60 staff by April.Visit www.thinkbusiness.ie for more news and supports for start-ups and SMEs in Ireland. If you want to start and grow a business, ThinkBusiness.
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Episode 247 - Liam Cronin, CEO, RDI Hub
Killorglin County Kerry-based innovation centre RDI Hub recently marked its fifth anniversary and within that relatively short period of time has seen more than €250m invested in its start-ups and has created 430 high-quality local jobs. We talk to the CEO of RDI Hub Liam Cronin about how the hub has made the impact it has and what other regions of Ireland can learn from this.Visit www.thinkbusiness.ie for more news and supports for start-ups and SMEs in Ireland. If you want to start and grow a business, ThinkBusiness.
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Episode 246 - Lucy Ryan and John Doyle, Bank of Ireland
As well as supporting the Backyard at Blas na hEireann, Bank of Ireland’s experts recently mentored some of the winners from the Blas na hEireann Best Newcomers category in areas of sustainability and fundamentals of business. We spoke to Lucy Ryan, head of Food Sector at Bank of Ireland and bank manager John Doyle, a judge at Blas, about the importance of sustaining and developing food start-ups.Visit www.thinkbusiness.ie for more news and supports for start-ups and SMEs in Ireland. If you want to start and grow a business, ThinkBusiness.
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Episode 245 - Loretta Dignam, Menopause Hub
Leading menopause expert Loretta Dignam has become the only Irishwoman honoured in the first-ever Forbes 50 over 50 global list of trailblazingwomen.Dignam founded the Menopause Hub – Ireland’s first and only dedicatedmenopause clinic at the time – in 2018 at the age of 56.She says that age has no limit for entrepreneurship and talks about herefforts to make Ireland a global leader in removing the stigma aroundmenopause.Visit www.thinkbusiness.ie for more news and supports for start-ups and SMEs in Ireland. If you want to start and grow a business, ThinkBusiness.
We talk to Claire Hanrahan, managing director of pensions business IPF which is blazing a trail in terms of women leadership at both executive and board-level. The business is an outlier in terms of equality and empowering all staff- male and female – to develop their careers and achieve their potential. Proving diversity works, it now has €1bn under management, counts more than 30,000 customers and last year achieved record revenues of €10m.Visit www.thinkbusiness.ie for more news and supports for start-ups and SMEs in Ireland. If you want to start and grow a business, ThinkBusiness.
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