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Fewer than a third of family businesses survive into the second generation

Aryzta board divided as Elliott takeover talks drag

Baking company has been approached by almost 20 parties interested in business

Mainstream sees its assets grow 37% ahead of sale

Power company has hired investment bank Rothschild to find equity partner to help finance the development of its projects

Aryzta’s new chairman has five weeks to come up with a plan

Centre of power of beseiged Swiss-Irish bread-maker shifted from Dublin to Zurich

Bidders eye parts of Aryzta as ‘all strategic options’ on table after €1.1bn loss

CEO Kevin Toland’s pay package falls more than 50% to €2 million

Has Aryzta’s new chairman got the appetite for the job ahead?

Shareholders’ choice of Urs Jordi leaves the food giant’s sale to Elliott up in the air

European shares fall as ECB leaves policy unchanged

Markets report: Most European sectors end in negative territory

No comment from Aryzta on reported plans to sell off troubled US arm

Baked goods manufacturer is reportedly ready to exit US market

Aryzta accused of ‘too little urgency’ in tackling problems

Investor advisory group ISS backs McGann replacement, criticises firm’s performance

Mainstream Renewable names Mary Quaney as new chief executive

Ms Quaney, who joined the company in 2009, has served as chief financial officer since 2017

Nordic Aviation’s creditors agree to shelve repayments on €6bn debt

Limerick-headquartered aircraft lessor has $2 billion in equity

Aryzta needs to sell €600m of assets to reset business, shareholders claim

Activist investors up the ante ahead of August showdown with Swiss-Irish food group

Aryzta needs to sell €600m of assets to reset business, shareholders claim

Activist investors up the ante ahead of August showdown with Swiss-Irish food group

Aryzta dissident shareholders open to Toland compromise

Investors may instead seek to have the Swiss-Irish baking group agree to a wider overhaul of non-executive directors

Buyers circle Mainstream green energy group

Eddie O'Connor's wind and solar energy group valued up to €1bn

Dissident shareholders slam timing of Aryzta’s EGM

Swiss-Irish good group criticised for holding off egm at which directors could be ousted

Aryzta CEO keeping ‘open mind’ on strategic options

Food group says there are signs of improvement in May as restrictions begin to lift

Markets cool down as US-China trade tensions simmer

Euro shares fall amid concerns over slow recovery from coronavirus-led downturn

Aryzta investors seek to oust McGann and Toland from board

Shareholders set up potential showdown with board after proposing extraordinary meeting of shareholders

Tough choices at Cuisine de France owner as activists park on front lawn

Baked goods group now worth just 60% of sum it raised in 2018 rescue fundraise

Aryzta shares slide again amid speculation over company’s future

Cuisine de France owner is under pressure to reverse precipitous collapse in share value

European shares hit 3-week low on doubts over speedy recovery

Euro zone banks hover near all-time lows

Will Covid-19 be the final straw for Aryzta’s troubled US business?

Irish-Swiss group announces review amid further decline in shareholder value

Mainstream taps Rothschild for equity partner search

Eddie O’Connor owns 55% of company

Central Bank secures permission for ‘monumental’ sculpture outside HQ

Bank secured planning for €300,000 sculpture at its €140m Dublin HQ

Anti-Semitism rising sharply across Europe, latest figures show

Jews feel at greater risk and are experiencing markedly more aggression, recent surveys show

Goodbody upgrades forecast for Irish economy, Ikea’s Irish sales and new tax compliance unit

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Care centre group Centric secures €50m in funding

Funding deal comes following investment in group earlier this year by Rothschild

David McWilliams: Dublin generates 56% of Irish tax, but can’t keep a cent of it

Capital Ideas: We should issue ‘Dublin municipal bonds’ – it works for other cities

A Brooklyn bridge all the way to Limerick

Home Front: Amanda Hilton Sawyer’s interior design; Róisín Lafferty’s parlour tricks

The Irishman fronting the UAE’s biggest IPO in a decade

The company, which pumps most of the crude in the UAE, is the fourth-biggest producer within the Opec cartel with output of about 3 million barrels of oil a day

Tech lifts euro zone stocks as Steinhoff sinks further

Aryzta continues rise even after shareholders oppose executive pay deal at Dublin agm

Davy earned more than €1.7m in fees from AIB’s IPO

Irish stockbroker Goodbody also received large fees from bank’s stock market listing

Irish traveller’s most Instagrammed destinations

Great breaks include Carlingford, a giraffe guesthouse and a festival in Carrickmacross

Ryanair hindered by Italian plan to avoid Alitalia break-up

Budget carrier has previously said it’s interested in Alitalia’s long-haul business

O’Brien gears up for Goodwood with Roly Poly Group One success

US Army Ranger takes on Big Orange in Tuesday’s Goodwood Cup

Dual King George tilt for Aidan O’Brien

Highland Reel and Idaho in action at Ascot while Roly Poly goes to Deauville on Sunday

Caravaggio set for Deauville Group One In August

Aidan O’Brien seals Group Two Curragh double with Spirit of Valor and Elizabeth Browning

Inside Project Viking: Anatomy of deal to float AIB

The full story of Europe’s largest IPO so far this year

AIB sale a ‘significant milestone’ for banking sector, Noonan says

Minister insists State should not own banks when capital markets willing to do so

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