This time last year Melanie Harty, a Tralee businesswoman, was still putting the finishing touches to the production and packaging design for her range of pepper jellies and launching them in Kerry. The business has grown so well that this year she will be exhibiting at Bloom, Ireland’s biggest garden festival in Phoenix Park, Dublin, [...]
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Kerry Businesswomen’s Network 8th April
Avine McNally, Assistant Director of the Small Firms Association, will be the speaker at the April meeting of Kerry Businesswomen’s Network (www.kerrybusinesswomen.com). The topic will be current business issues, focusing on finance and getting paid on time (a problem for many of us!). The meeting will be on Thursday 8th April at the usual venue [...]
Are you developing a business in ICT or Life Sciences?
Enterprise Ireland has launched the second Propel Programme which can provide financial support of up to €15,000; business start-up training; access to local and global contacts and networks; specialised business and industry expertise in 1:1 sessions; mentoring and access to potential investors. Propel will run for 10 months and is open to entrepreneurs currently located [...]
Good news for small business – pay only for results
This press release has been issued today by Kiely & Associates and Quinn Garvey PR: Good news for small business – pay only for results There’s good news from Kerry for all small businesses in Ireland. Anne Kiely, Kiely & Associates and Anthony Garvey, Quinn Garvey PR, both experienced PR practitioners, have joined forces to [...]
Pay only when we succeed!
A new business model from Kiely & Associates (PR) – pay only when we succeed!
Open Coffee Tralee 9th December
Forget about the budget on 9th December - you can’t do anything about it! But you CAN come to Open Coffee Tralee on Wednesday 9th December at the Meadowlands Hotel, Oakpark (www.meadowlands-hotel.com), from 10.30 am. Meet other business people and raise funds for Kerry Cancer Support Group. The idea of Open Coffee is to meet people [...]
Budget 2010 Breakfast Briefing
Kerry County Enterprise Board, in association with Peevers Slye Cotter (PSC Taxation Services) will be presenting a Breakfast Briefing on the budget which will be announced on 9th December. Booking is essential – book online at www.kerryenterprise.ie. The cost per person is €20 and the venue is the Meadowlands Hotel, Tralee, from 9 am to [...]
Kerry Enterprise Network
Computers to Chocolate – melt-down or success? Colm Healy is a man who likes chocolate…… come to the Kerry County Enterprise Board’s Network meeting on Monday 16th November and find out why! Colm has been Owner and Managing Director of Skelligs Chocolate Company since October 2004, but his earlier business career focused on [...]
Kerry Chocolate
Two Kerry businesses are featured in today’s Irish Times – in Kate Holmquist’s article “How the Irish went loco for cocoa”. Colm Healy, who owns Skelling Chocolates (http://www.skelligschocolate.com/), says that 50% of the chocolates, worth about €1 million annually, is mail order business within Ireland and the rest is exports to the US, UK and [...]
Friday Forum
Kiely & Associates are starting a new lunchtime networking event for business people - Friday Forum. The first event will be on Friday 23rd October, 12.30 to 2 pm at the Killarney Park Hotel. Tickets are €15 each, to include a soup and sandwich lunch. The speaker at this first event will be John McIntyre of Hypertech, who [...]