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From an economic perspective the outlook for the Galway hotel sector remains positive. The latest Irish labour market data show all-time high employment of 2.71 million across the economy while average weekly earnings grew by 4.6 per cent compared to the same period in 2022, both of which supports the outlook for leisure spending in the county.

Ibec recently hosted an event with Minister of State Jack Chambers to discuss potential skills shortages within Ireland’s supply chain network, as part of the Government’s ‘Logistics and Supply Chain Skills Week 2024.’

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The latest quarterly research (Q4 2021) by the Institute of Directors (IoD) in Ireland has found that general inflation, wage inflation and supply chain issues are of concern to a majority of business leaders as their organisations face into 2022. The survey also finds that a majority of business leaders remains optimistic about the financial performance of their primary organisation in both Q1 2022 and, indeed, for the year 2022.

There has been a huge demand for consumer products in 2020 and 2021. Covid-19 has resulted in people spending more time at home than ever before. Lockdown especially saw all non-essential workers confined to their homes. Investing in goods such as clothing, electronics, and furniture was one of the few ways that people could spend their discretionary income from the comfort of their own homes. However, this major spike in consumer purchasing is only one of many challenges that the retail industry is currently facing.

Nightly water restrictions are now largely a thing of the past for many homes and business in Athlone, following a strategic and targeted approach by Irish Water to drive down leakage and provide a more secure and reliable water supply for the town.

Three TY students from Ballinderreen, all of whom attend Seamount, Kinvara have set up a business called Pallet Bros as part of the Student Enterprise programme, in which they take unwanted pallets and turn them into unique handcrafted designs.

Seat Ireland is offering a roof box rental service, available to Seat customers across its 23-retailer network.

Both purchasers and vendors often say the most frustrating thing when buying or selling a property is the amount of time it takes after the property is sale agreed for the sale of a property to close.

Ireland’s largest manufacturing supply chain conference and trade exhibition - Manufacturing Solutions 2018 - has just gotten bigger, with this year’s event estimated to be worth in excess of €170,000 to the local hospitality sector.