Philip Morris
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Philip Morris says Irish ad for ‘menthol blend’ cigarettes a ‘mistake’
- Retail & Services
- June 19, 2020, 05:15
Philip Morris, the company that makes Marlboro cigarettes, has told Irish retailers it made a “mistake” by running an advertisement in the trade press(...)

We must beware Big Tech companies seeking regulation
- Opinion
- February 22, 2020, 01:00
In the late 19th century, the titans of American business in the Gilded Age – men such as John Rockefeller and Jay Gould – argued that as pioneers in (...)

How Formula One could race ahead without sponsors
- Innovation
- November 7, 2019, 04:16
Mark Gallagher is a name that won’t be familiar to many outside of motor racing, but he’s a hero to almost all of us. That’s because he was – in larg(...)

‘A moment of clarity’ on trying to quit smoking by accident
- Health & Family
- April 22, 2019, 06:00
I gave up cigarettes by accident. It coincided – give or take a few weeks – with the start of Lent so one could say, I gave them up for Lent. I don’t(...)

Iseq fares better than European peers but protectionism fears still a drag on markets
- Markets
- October 12, 2018, 19:26
European stocks failed to stage a recovery on Friday, posting their worst week since a market correction last February as a new sell-off hit bourses a(...)

Stocks rally after Fed chair’s key speech while oil prices surge
- Markets
- August 24, 2018, 18:17
Global equity markets rose on Friday after Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell expressed no surprises in a key speech outlining a steady course for(...)

CRH shares soar while INM recovers lost ground
- Markets
- April 20, 2018, 18:18
Shares in CRH soared the most in eight months on Friday, lifting Dublin’s Iseq index, as investors mulled over comments made by the building materials(...)

Surging oil prices boost FTSE but Wall St lingers in the red
- Markets
- April 19, 2018, 18:37
Earnings and trade anxiety set the tone on stock markets, amid a mixed slate of results. The FTSE 100 in London rose after commodity stocks were boost(...)

AIB buoys Iseq on record day in Europe
- Markets
- January 19, 2018, 17:53
A busy day in Dublin helped push the Iseq overall index up by almost 1 per cent with strong gains in AIB. In London, although the FTSE was up on the(...)

Caveat: Who’s afraid of the big, bad lobbyist?
- Economy
- September 29, 2017, 05:45
This month saw the second anniversary of the State’s lobbying disclosure regime. Was there a cake and candles? Was there, hell. Two years in, one thin(...)