Seen & Heard: Arytza eyes sale, Punchestown boost, ECB view sought on Sinn Féin Bill

Danish outsourcer ISS also announces plans to cut 20% of workforce and quit 13 markets

Conglomerate has paid more than $6 billion to Wall Street banks as market value collapses by 80%

Smyths will initially pay just €64 million for 93 central European stores, documents show

Total Produce climbs 6.4% on foot of its €242 million deal to buy a stake in Dole Food Company

Owner of Times New Roman branches into emojis and not everybody is smiling

Tropical fruits distributor was acquired by Japan’s Sumitomo this year for €751m

The story behind the failure of Kraft Heinz to win over the Anglo-Dutch giant

Patrick Long of Lazard says auction succeeded as Cerberus paid best price available

Garda intensifies investigation into the agency following Enda Farrell case

C&AG report contains calls between former Nama official Hanna and Pimco

Nama says Comptroller and Auditor General Séamus McCarthy used wrong calculations

State watchdog has no expertise in valuing loans and does not live in a commercial world

‘USA Today’ publisher aims to gain bigger regional newspapers such as ‘LA Times’

We are now achingly close to achieving a renewable-energy revolution

Emergence of electricity storage at viable cost could see it become back-up to renewables

Dáil correspondence reveals agency’s spending during sale of North loan portfolio

Taoiseach says TD has duty to bring allegations before Public Accounts Committee

Claims about the agency’s conduct have not been supported by any evidence

Chairman Frank Daly denies Nama accepted less than it could have for Project Eagle loans

IPO set to be one of the largest in UK for four years, and will benefit all employees

Company in charge of the new sale, Lazard, was behind criticised Royal Mail flotation

An InterContinental Hotels and Starwood union would create world’s largest hotel group

Sale of 40% stake the start of €12bn privatisation programme

Cerberus’s €1.6bn Project Eagle bid selected ‘on the advice of Lazard’, Nama says

Fallout continues from implosion in 2012 of State’s then third-largest stockbroker

Michael Noonan says AIB back in profit and has passed European Central Bank’s stress tests

Meet the Irish-born venture capitalists flying home for the event

Bidders expected to invest further in glass manufacturing facilities

Encirc employs 1,000 people and has annual revenues of more than €300m

Businessman advising Mulryan on recovery

Costs fall and efficiency rises for solar panels and wind turbines in parts of US, bank finds

Older drug brands from GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi among those being targeted

Reynolds American is to buy rival Lorillard, merging two of the world’s biggest cigarette makers

Listing will test appetite for new offerings by retail firms

Poor equity market conditions blamed for u-turn on IPO planned to fund expansion

Project, led by Sean Mulryan, will reduce developer’s borrowings with NAMA

At least four bidders in running for loans related to properties in UK and Republic

Founded in 1996, it built a major business by procuring the rights to royalties of some of the major drugs in the market, including Humira, Januvia, Lyrica and Remicade