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Ian Guider: Pandox and Eiendomsspar make first move for Dalata as hotel giant’s sale heats up

04.06.2025 10

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Ian Guider: How much longer must we wait to find out how the Apple money will be spent?

02.06.2025 10

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Ian Guider: Nvidia smashes earnings forecasts but Huang is right to flag real risk that lies ahead

31.05.2025 10

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Ian Guider: New EU-British deal shows that pragmatism is finally prevailing over ideology

25.05.2025 7

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Ian Guider: €100 million man Michael O’Leary has made Ryanair standout bet

24.05.2025 9

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Ian Guider: Lawless’ plan to woo US academics built on sand

19.05.2025 9

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Ian Guider: The real danger is not tariffs – it’s the day the US turns off the corporate tax tap

10.05.2025 9

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Ian Guider: Coveney finds himself with a chance to convince as SSP’s activist ups the stakes

09.05.2025 6

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Ian Guider: Why Revolut’s mortgage move should make Irish banks nervous

After years of bumper profits driven by rising rates, limited competition and a captive customer base, the tide may be turning on the three domestic...

04.05.2025 10

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Ian Guider: Smurfit Westrock acts decisively to buttress itself from headwinds after share price slump

As well as slashing costs, the company is investing $2.2 billion in capital expenditure this year

02.05.2025 10

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Ian Guider: Unlocking private investment only way to solve mounting housing crisis

Rarely a week goes by without a warning that the market is becoming increasingly impossible to navigate

27.04.2025 10

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Ian Guider: DCC looks set to solve its long-standing identity crisis

Strip out the distractions and what’s left is a pure-play energy group with ambitions across EVs and LNG

25.04.2025 9

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Ian Guider: Case for dumping fully privatised waste collection has never been clearer

Blocking the Bord na Móna sale would be a small but significant first move to creating a national waste operator focused on the public interest

20.04.2025 7

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Ian Guider: Ireland badly exposed should economic threat come to our shores

Rapid expansion in day-to-day spending off the back of unstable corporate tax revenues a fundamental weakness which could lead to real pain for many

11.04.2025 7

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Ian Guider: Paul Marchant’s shock departure from Penneys shows no one is bigger than the brand

Companies like BP, Kroger, and McDonald’s are rewriting the rulebook on executive conduct

04.04.2025 10

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Ian Guider on Trump: We’ve just witnessed start of unprecedented experiment

The world we’ve known of free trade and open markets so that all countries could develop and prosper is over

03.04.2025 8

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Ian Guider: Howard Lutnick is dangerously on the money on Ireland’s ‘tax scam’

The US commerce secretary’s swipe hurts because it is true, and while we are worrying about tariffs, a direct strike on the corporate tax base would...

30.03.2025 8

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Ian Guider: Executive pay is rising, but that doesn’t mean investors will tolerate a free-for-all

Shareholders want strong leadership, but are unlikely to accept excessive payouts that could erode value

28.03.2025 7

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Ian Guider: Executive pay is rising, but that doesn’t mean investors will tolerate a free-for-all

Shareholders want strong leadership, but are unlikely to accept excessive payouts that could erode value

28.03.2025 6

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Ian Guider: Amazon will transform Irish retail but there will be only one real winner

The online behemoth holds all the power, and the risk is that today’s beneficiaries will become tomorrow’s cautionary tales

23.03.2025 9

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Ian Guider: Dalton Phillips’ Bakkavor play shows Greencore still has bite

The Irish company has outperformed recently and momentum is moving in its direction as it eyes an audacious bid for a bigger, rival firm

21.03.2025 10

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Ian Guider: Ireland is choking on its own inertia with mega-projects left languishing

As a result, we have an economy held back, opportunities squandered, and a planning process that serves paralysis over progress

16.03.2025 10

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Michael Carvill’s bid for Kenmare: Can he win back the company he built?

Carvill is fronting a consortium financed by Abu Dhabi’s Oryx Global Partners that is seeking to acquire the company

14.03.2025 7

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Ian Guider: Night flights curb and passenger cap at airport holding tourism to ransom

Dublin Airport is a national asset and key to Ireland’s economic future, yet it is being stymied by effectively local gripes

09.03.2025 7

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Ian Guider: Irish Continental Group splashes shareholders with dividends and buybacks

The Irish Ferries owner has been paying out an astonishing return of €570 million between dividends and buybacks – despite a market cap of just...

07.03.2025 10

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Ian Guider: Time to loosen the purse strings and get rid of the ridiculous caps on bankers pay

It is time to not just talk about lifting these restrictions, but simply get rid of them now

02.03.2025 8

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Ian Guider: IDA will find out that everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth

If you believe a US pharma executive is opening a major office in Dublin anytime soon, I’ve got a bridge you might be interested in buying

22.02.2025 8

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Ian Guider: Ires’s battle is over but problems persist – there’s one thing that could turn the dial

The listed firm has put a difficult boardroom battle behind it but bigger changes in the business environment will be needed to change its fortunes...

21.02.2025 8

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Ian Guider: PTSB yet to break the great duolopy in Irish banking

With AIB set to exit state ownership, that sunny payday for PTSB shareholders may be a few years off unless something happens to unlock its potential

16.02.2025 9

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Ian Guider: Storm Eowyn shows Ireland cannot afford to react to such crises after the fact

With recriminations continuing over the state’s reaction to the historic event, the final clean-up bill is set to be way in excess of €200 million

09.02.2025 10

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Ian Guider: Amid the noise of Trump’s tariffs, potential winners and losers are beginning to emerge

Investors would be wise to buckle up, because if a trade war does break out there will be losers and winners on both sides

07.02.2025 10

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Ian Guider: Amid the noise of Trump’s tariffs, potential winners and losers are beginning to emerge

Investors would be wise to buckle up, because if a trade war does break out there will be losers and winners on both sides

07.02.2025 6

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Ian Guider: Is a paywall inevitable for the Six Nations?

The investors who have bought into rugby want to make money, and that may well mean the end of free-to-air matches between nations

01.02.2025 10

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Analysis: Guinness is Ireland’s Big Ben and Eiffel Tower, Diageo’s plan to sell is monumental

The famous Irish stout has rarely been as popular or fashionable so it might be time for the ailing parent to capitalise on it

26.01.2025 10

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Ian Guider: New government should call on O’Leary, Boucher et al for real-world advice

Establishing a council of grandees with business expertise and experience would inject much needed energy into a moribund system

26.01.2025 10

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Ian Guider: DCC shareholders in line for bonanza dividends

Its radical shift should please investors, with Goodbody Stockbrokers this week naming the company as its top stock pick this year

24.01.2025 6

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Ian Guider: Junk bonds helped to build Ardagh, but now they threaten to dismantle it

Paul Coulson will need every one of his dealmaking abilities to steer the company he built through the choppy waters ahead

19.01.2025 7

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Ian Guider: Enterprise Ireland and the IDA have been very successful, but remaining static is not an option

With so much geo-political uncertainty and war in Europe continuing, Ireland’s ability to create jobs is facing unprecedented challenges

10.01.2025 10

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Ian Guider: Five Irish firms that could change hands in 2025

06.01.2025 7

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Ian Guider: 2025 will be a year of profound change both at home and abroad

From Washington to Berlin, Trump 2.0, tariffs, greater banking competition, battle over TikTok all lie ahead

26.12.2024 3

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Ian Guider’s year in review: Mega mergers, struggling firms, Tony O’Reilly’s death, FDI threats

Business Post columnist Ian Guider takes a look at the successes, scandals, threats and controversies that dominated that dominated the business...

22.12.2024 7

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Ian Guider: Rubbish is a big money spinner and the state should be a player

Privatising bin collection has not worked for customers, instead we need to bring waste management back into public control

06.12.2024 4

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Ian Guider: Rubbish is a big money spinner and the state should be a player

Privatising bin collection has not worked for customers, instead we need to bring waste management back into public control

06.12.2024 6

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Ian Guider: Why shutting down NDRC could jeopardise Ireland's much-needed start-up future

We need a full explanation for shuttering the NDRC, and a plan to back Irish companies and entrepreneurs

01.12.2024 4

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Ian Guider: Clear and present danger as Trump has Ireland’s corporate profits in his crosshairs

Quiet diplomacy won’t work in Maga-land and so we need someone who can do business there on our behalf without having to hold their nose

24.11.2024 4

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Ian Guider: Kerry Group sale of dairy division a victory for all parties

€500 million sale to the Kerry co-op frees the publicly-listed giant from its past, allowing it to focus on its hugely profitable taste and...

17.11.2024 4

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Ian Guider: Virgin Media's Tonight Show cuts highlight government’s failures in media funding

RTÉ swallows up huge chunks of media advertising while also enjoying huge support from the taxpayer that commercial operators can only dream of

10.11.2024 2

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Ian Guider: Ireland rode its luck with Trump first time on tax... we won’t be that lucky again

Chinese firm Wuxi’s Dundalk plant is the kind of operation new administration will be targeting from January

06.11.2024 3

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Ian Guider: Ireland rode its luck with Trump first time on tax... we wont be that lucky again

Chinese firm Wuxi’s Dundalk plant is the kind of operation new administration will be targeting from January

06.11.2024 3

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Ian Guider: Why I was wrong about Bankinter’s ability to disrupt AIB and Bank of Ireland

04.11.2024 2

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