David Fitzsimons

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Duncan Graham, newly appointed managing director of Retail Excellence Ireland. Photograph: Robbie Reynolds
Retail Excellence appoints Duncan Graham as new MD

Retail Excellence has confirmed the appointment of Duncan Graham as its new managing director following the departure of David Fitzsimons last month. (...)

Goodbody Stockbroker boss Roy Barrett, who reportedly told staff that its sale to Bank of China is taking longer than expected.
US tech giant signs €24m office lease in Dublin

Nasdaq-listed tech group MongoDB has signed a lease worth €24 million on a new office in Dublin with the capacity for up to 500 employees, according t(...)

The industry survey predicts in-store revenues will be down by an average of 65 per cent across the retail sector next month. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire
Retailers face huge monthly declines for the rest of 2020 – research

Leading figures in the retail sector want the Government’s reopening plan to be reviewed after detailed new industry research laid bare the huge month(...)

Jones’ Garden Centre in Donabate, Co Dublin, with modifications in place ahead of reopening to the public on Monday. Photograph: Alan Betson
Reopening retailers seek bailout package including rates waiver

Retailers want local council rates waived for a year and grants equal to 60 per cent of commercial rent to aid their recovery from the Covid-19 crisis(...)

Grafton Street in Dublin’s city centre.Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
The changing face of retail during and after Covid-19

For years now, every single time, Pricewatch has written about the immense challenges facing bricks and mortar shops forced to compete with online sel(...)

Garden centres and hardware stores are among the businesses permitted to open in phase one. Photograph: iStock
1,500 retailers gear up to reopen next week

About 1,500 retailers will reopen their doors next Monday as the State moves to the first phase of its plan to reopen the economy, according to figure(...)

Grafton Street in Dublin, the 13th most expensive shopping street in the world. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Irish retailers face winter of discontent after UK closures

It has become a humorous internet meme to point out changes in the environment spurred by global lockdowns, and conclude that the planet is renewing i(...)

A worker checks the temperature of a customer at the entrance of a supermarket, in Turin, Italy. Photograph: Reuters
Shops warned off price promotions when they reopen

Non-essential retailers have been warned not to offer any special deals or promotions when the State eventually allows them to reopen, to prevent larg(...)

Both Brown Thomas and Arnotts closed at 5pm on Wednesday evening. File Photograph: Eric Luke
Coronavirus: Brown Thomas, Arnotts and Penneys closing until further notice

Both Brown Thomas and Arnotts closed at 5pm on Wednesday evening as the impact of coronavirus continues to send shock waves through the retail sector (...)

Dublin City Council chief executive Owen Keegan ‘strongly cautioned’ against a moratorium on commercial rates and social housing rents ‘if we are to maintain city council services’.
Rates and rent freeze will see Dublin city run out of money, Keegan warns

Dublin City Council will not have enough money to run the city if a blanket moratorium on commercial rates and social housing rents is implemented dur(...)

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