| Entrepreneur Name |
Company Name |
Background |
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Industry Category 2004 |
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| John Bowen |
The Bowen Group |
A Cork-based organisation has been turned into a national leader in the construction industry with operational centres in both Cork and Dublin, providing the full range of services for local authorities, major international and national firms in the public and private sectors, in roads and houses. |
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| Peter Conlon |
Xsil Ltd |
Xsil was founded in early 2000 by Peter Conlon, one year before he sold his former company, MVT Ltd., to Agilent Technologies for cash consideration in excess of €100 million.
Xsil is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland and holds offices in the US, Japan and Taiwan. It plans to open development and customer services locations in Singapore and Korea later this year. |
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| Joe Connolly |
Connolly's Red Mills |
Established in 1908, Connolly’s Red Mills is a fourth generation family run business. Headed up by Joe Connolly, Chief Executive, it has grown to become one of the most technologically advanced performance animal food manufacturers in Europe and boasts exports to the UK, Europe, the Far East, and the U.S.A. |
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| Pat Cooney |
Gleeson Group/Tipperary Water |
The Gleeson Bros started M and J Gleeson in the late 60’s as a small Wholesale Co. servicing the licensed trade around the village of Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary. |
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| Michael Hoey |
Country Crest Ltd |
The Hoey family has grown potatoes in North County Dublin for almost 100 years. In 1994 Michael and Gabriel, who are fourth generation in farming, set up Country Crest. They saw that the consumer requirements for potatoes were changing and multiples were presenting and marketing potato products in new and innovative ways. |
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| Derek Hughes |
Hughes & Hughes |
Both Hughes & Hughes and Insomnia are selling directly to the public in Dublin, Galway, Shannon and London |
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| Thomas Kellett |
Kellets Oldcastle Ltd |
Kelletts Oldcastle Limited is a leading manufacturer of beds and mattress in Ireland. The Kellett family founded the company in 1947. Their principal activity is manufacturing beds (mattress & bed base/divans) and bedsprings, which are produced for internal use and for the sale to other bedding manufactures in the UK and Ireland. |
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| Sam McCauley |
Sam McCauley Chemists |
By 1999 there were four Sam McCauley One Stop Health & Beauty retail outlets, at which point Sam realised the need to set up a Support Office Structure to manage future growth. The Support Office now embraces Financial Control, Purchasing, Marketing and Advertising, IT and HR functions, and recently moved to purpose built offices and warehousing facilities at Ardcavan in Wexford, which has the capacity to support, not alone the current 15 Stores within the Group, but also further growth well into the future. |
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