Irish publicly quoted companies to spend record €6.9bn on buybacks amid global flurry
Heightened spend reflects a surge in stock repurchases on both sides of the Atlantic
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Ukraine court sets date for CRH challenge
Local player Kovalska fears damage to competition for key building material
CRH in legal battle over Ukraine group purchase
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Battle lines drawn in legal dispute over sale of cement maker in Ukraine to CRH
While efforts to end the war in Ukraine continue, building materials giant CRH and an Irish family-owned business are caught in a conflict of their own in the eastern European country
Heavyweight firm CRH and O’Reilly motor dealer family mired in Ukraine row
Irish building materials giant faces legal challenge over cement deal
Trump-Putin summit boosts global stocks amid hopes of Ukraine ceasefire
Dublin’s Iseq moves 1% higher as banks and food stocks gain momentum
CRH sees US market for low-carbon cement alternative doubling by 2050
Building materials giant reports a better than expected 9% rise in second quarter core profit and raises full-year forecast
CRH to buy US group Eco Material for $2.1bn
US company uses materials like fly ash, a byproduct of coal combustion, to partly replace cement in the construction sector
Can former building giant CRH boss Albert Manifold bring clarity to struggling BP?
It comes as the energy giant struggles with debt, strategic confusion, and activist investor pressure
Albert Manifold will not indulge sacred cows or ‘box ticking’ as incoming BP chairman
Former CRH boss faces myriad of issues at UK oil major
What do Ireland’s best paid chief executives earn?
Top executives’ average pay package rose by 31 per cent to €4.36m last year
Albert Manifold, Irish cement veteran hired to chair BP for pivot back to oil and gas
Muted market response to former CRH chief’s appointment belies reputation as ‘shrewd operator’ and ‘man on a mission’
BP appoints Irishman Albert Manifold as new chairman
Former CRH chief executive to succeed Helge Lund as chair of the UK oil major
The Irish firms seen as safe from Trump’s planned ‘revenge tax’
Foreign companies operating in the US that are majority owned by US investors would not be affected by the special tax
CRH chair says Irish AGMs still ‘appropriate’ even as holding of meetings overseas is approved
Group CEO Jim Mintern says it’s a matter of “when, not if” CRH joins S&P 500 index in US
CRH sticks to forecasts amid ‘no sign of investment delays’
Group says outlook for its business remains positive
European shares can recapture early 2025 momentum over Wall Street, say analysts
Here’s why: Sixty per cent of European companies’ first-quarter earnings have beaten market expectations
CRH hires New York-based executive Nancy Buese as CFO
Company moved main listing to New York in 2023 with eye on S&P 500
Stock markets are like casinos. Don’t rely on them as a bellwether of tariff impacts
Mobile capital is panicking because, like the rest of us, it does not know what is going to happen next
Greencore boss’s £1.2bn bid ambition a rarity among second-tier Irish plcs these days
Agreement in principle to buy Bakkavor marks a major departure in ambition for the Dublin-based sandwich and ready-meal maker
Iseq defectors forced into eyewatering pay disclosures
Tony Smurfit the latest to see a big bump in his pay package
New CRH chief executive Jim Mintern to earn up to $14.8m this year
Predecessor Albert Manifold received 2024 remuneration package of $13.6m
US-Ireland trade deficit: what is it and what might Donald Trump do about it?
Switching production sites can be a lengthy process for companies, particularly in pharma
CRH sees earnings margins growing for 12th year on infrastructure spend
Results meet market expectations
Electricity network upgrades likely to see user bills rise
Seen & heard: Developers summoned; Xerotech on the brink; Glencore eyes Pallas Green sale; CRH invests in 3D; Mounjaro arrives; and O’Hara brewery talks
Donald Trump is likely to listen to noisy business leaders like Michael O’Leary
Nothing says ‘America first’ quite like Boeing aeroplanes, and Ryanair is one of the US aircraft maker’s best customers
Wall Street investors ask if CRH’s new boss will hive off non-US assets, including Ireland
Scale and prospects of US business drove 2023 decision to move CRH’s primary stock market listing to New York
Manifold bows out of CRH after almost 400% share price surge
Jim Mintern takes over as chief executive of building materials giant
From Aer Lingus pilots to Alias Tom: Who were the winners and losers in Irish business this year?
In a year of closures and comebacks, Michael O’Leary had a ‘pain in the backside’, while Gail Slater was urged to ‘Make America Competitive Again’
Trump’s favourite index is tipped to rally further in 2025. But will he get in the way?
S&P 500 is tipped to gain 7% next year, but will it?
CRH shrugs off bad weather as revenues and profits rise in third quarter
Irish building material group’s revenue rose 4% to $10.5bn year on year in quarter
Goodbody CEO Martin Tormey: ‘We lost our way a little, but there is a big opportunity now’
The chief of the leading financial services provider stresses the importance of keeping Irish companies Irish for as long as possible
Goodbody Stockbrokers plans ‘modest’ bonuses amid return to profit
Goodbody Stockbrokers has grown its employee count to over 400 since AIB acquisition three years ago
Corre Energy offers cautionary tale as Government bids to revive IPOs
An extraordinary general meeting on Monday will consider investor moves to populate the board with new nominees
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