Episode 217: That Great Business Show Release Date: November 7, 2024 Host: Conall O'Morain Welcome to That Great Business Show, the podcast where we bring you tips, insights, and opportunities to fuel your business journey. Each episode, we feature high-flying entrepreneurs and industry leaders, and today is no exception. In this episode, we’re div…

E216 That Great Business Show Sharon Yourell Lawlor has mayonnaise degree - or at least she wrote a dissertation on the marketing of mayonnaise. She wasn't so much interested in the taste or formula of it, but in what made shoppers choose Hellman's over Goodalls. She's now a world expert in how and why people shop, covering every type of shop. On t…

🌟 Check out Episode 215 of That Great Business Show with Conall Ó Móráin! 🌟 Dive into fascinating discussions about spy satellites and ice cream from a Cork farm - with world ambitions - once #Lidl re-orders. Perfect blend of innovation and deliciousness! 🍦🛰️ Featuring Ubotica - aiming big to own Space AI and The Good Dairy Company also aiming big,…

Episode 214 That Great Business Show Brendan Fitzpatrick RESTART JOURNEY – If you've had enough of your job, or your business is getting you down and you crave a change, then Brendan is the man for you. In 20 minutes he'll explain what you should and could do to make change happen. It could be life changing. Literally. His hire in a heartbeat? Spor…

E213 That Great Business Show A daring raid by Italy's UniCredit bank has seen them take a 21% stake in Germany's Commerzbank - a pillar support of the Mittelstand (Germany's big SME's) - and German politicians aren't happy. This could be the start of a period of consolidation in European banking and though Ireland is tiny in European terms, there …

E212 That Great Business Show Nigel Owens, legendary rugby referee, on his life and times and why you should base your business in Wales. He's searingly honest about his own near brush with death, by suicide and his continuing battle with bulimia. This episode is essential listening for any person, of any age, going through tough times. Nigel is si…

E211 That Great Business Show Want to start your own food company, then this is the episode for you. You could be the next worldwide food brand, or you may have more limited aspirations, to keep it simple and local. Either way, author and food industry expert Oonagh Monahan, author of 'More Money for Jam', joins That Great Business Show with a chec…

E210 That Great Business Show A biking business that has taken some years to flourish. GoBike.io founder, Ronan Whelan, has spent a couple of years refining his cycling holiday booking platform and now is looking for cycling tour providers to contact him, to check out his site and, ideally, to post holidays on the platform. A bit like mountain cycl…

E209 That Great Business Show Peter Davitt, CEO, FIT. (spoiler alert, nothing to do with fitness). No matter what your age or qualifications, you can switch to tech, thanks to FIT - fast track to information technology - basically a tech internship - earn while you learn. There are many, many vacancies, there are many, many opportunities. If you've…

E208 That Great Business Show Government backed MicroFinance Ireland, the micro business specialist lender, has doubled its lending limits and businesses can now apply for loans of up to €50,000. MFI CEO Des McCarthy joins us on That Great Business Show to explain who can get this cash, and how best to go about getting it -but not if you're in sex,…

E207 That Great Business Show We reveal a great Northern Ireland secret. OS Kitchens started 35 years ago on a kitchen table. Now they have a 450,000 sq ft plant, employing 360 skilled workers. Having conquered the UK and Ireland they have started to export to Chicago partially thanks to That Great Business Show. Listen to learn how. The business i…

E206 That Great Business Show 'Highly Commended', Irish Podcast Award Winner Conor O'Donovan, Head of the National Enterprise Hub. Why do 100,000 SMEs not avail of government business supports? Too complicated, too much paperwork, too busy??? Not so says Conor, where they're working to simplify application processes and they've brought all supports…

E205 That Great Business Show Irish Podcast Awards 'Highly Commended' Winner Tipple is shaking up the alcohol distribution business. Headed by Eoin Bara, based in Tullamore Co. Offaly, they have a growing number of warehouses to supply drink directly to the consumer - D2C. It's a very interesting business model, mixing Amazon know-how with a distil…

E204 That Great Business Show Irish Podcast Awards, 'Highly Commended' Winner According to Revenue Commissioner figures customs' declarations jumped from 1.7 million in 2020 to 55 million to 2023. No wonder the process needs to be automated. That's what Customs Window Technologies does. Learn how they keep ahead of their competitors. Customs declar…

E203 That Great Business Show Emma Meehan, founder of Precision Sports Technology, is about to revolutionise sports physiotherapy globally. She's put in the hard yards to create an incredible bit of tech. We've seen it in action. REAL TIME feedback on how you are moving, all from an iPad. Uses? Physios, sports clubs, gyms, anybody with any mobility…

E202 That Great Business Show Big news from Waterford company PlayerStat Data who have just cracked the North American market, with two deals they couldn't tell us about. But we asked enough questions so that you may be able to find out who the deals are with. Founder Colin Brett says that after seven long years (he almost had his CV on Indeed.com)…

E201 That Great Business Show Lorcan Healy, goalkeeper with Shelbourne AFC and founder of Eos Elite sportswear. A professional athlete in the morning, a startup dynamo in the afternoon, and beyond. His secret sauce starts, he says, with his first hire, Simon Feeney, marketing and events manager. He explains how he has built a community of over 17,0…

E200 That Great Business Show Key Patent Innovations MD Angela Quinlan - incredible young (2020) Irish business, founded by Angela Quinlan, that bought 33,000 Blackberry patents for $170m. They now have to 'sweat' those patents. Think of buying a Prince or David Bowie back catalogue and finding new (and existing ways) of making the music sing (fina…

E199 That Great Business Show Commercial litigation can cost an absolute fortune. That's why more and more businesses are opting for mediation to settle disputes. Peter Leonard BL is a barrister, co-presenter of The Fifth Court legal podcast and he's a certified mediator. He joins That Great Business Show to explain how mediation works, what the pr…

E 198 That Great Business Show We may have confused Kilgarvan and Glencar in County Kerry, but we certainly didn't mess up a great business story - that of Glencar - a leading construction company, growing to become one of the UK’s most successful privately-owned contractors having been founded only in 2016 (revenues of over half a billion Pounds S…

E197 - How to sell a dinosaur. You will never hear a business podcast like this elsewhere. Paddy Meade, former Dep. Chair and CEO of worldwide auction house Bonhams, is probably the world's best known seller of dinosauria. Paddy was asked to sell a dinosaur that had been pledged by a Creationist property developer (they believe the world is just 6,…

E196 That Great Business Show - Part II of III of the Paddy Meade interviews. Paddy starts by explaining how to make money at auctions and explains that's there a question of time - how long can you 'sit' on your investment? Then there's a question of fashion - objects, furniture, art all go in and out of fashion. Paddy sold a lot of 'nostalgia'. I…

E195 That Great Business Show - the Paddy Meade Triptych - three episodes featuring Ireland's most successful auctioneer. Paddy Meade is former Deputy Chair and CEO at Bonham Auctioneers, one of the most prestigious sales houses in the world. A born storyteller if you don't laugh out loud we guarantee your money back. We love a good backstory on TG…

E194 That Great Business Show The Republic of Ireland (pop. 5m) has 2.7 million Revolut users. Percentage wise Ireland is the biggest adopter of neobanks across the EU. Head of Revolut EU is Joe Heneghan who talks to us about what the future of banking looks like. Will we ever darken a banking hall again? Also biting the heels of the so-called 'pil…

E193 That Great Business Show David Broderick, Director of the SFA (part of IBEC), discusses the organisation's 'Four Just Demands'. David knows business as he was sent both to deliver cakes from his family business, and then also as a young boy, sent to collect the cash. Business in its rawest from an early age. He was also made redundant during C…

Episode 192 @That Great Business Show Serial investor (but don't call him an angel!) Gianna Matera has backed some of Ireland's best known unicorns (value >$1bn) including Glofox and Flipdish. On this episode we have a rare one-on-one with Gianni, a man with many strong views, but ones he normally keeps to himself. A former Italian army lieutenant …

E191 That Great Business Show We headed to the Fexco backed RDI Hub in Killorglin, Co. Kerry where we recorded one of the most curious people and business we have ever encountered. Rarely on a podcast can you have a cast bigger of A-listers bigger than Glastonbury. But how about...Joe Strummer (The Clash), Neville Staple (The Specials/Fun Boy Three…

E190 That Great Business Show with Conall O Morain Barry McNerney, CEO of UnifyOrdering, doesn't want to be a 'busy fool' so he has co-created a new ordering platform for the wider food industry. He has a solid backkground in business, a former Davy stockbroker he's now CEO of Lotts & CO, co-founder of Pauli's pizza and Junior's Cafe and he was onc…

E189 That Great Business Show with Conall O Morain Paul Connell, co-founder and CEO of Pure Telecom explains how his business model has changed over the years. He talks about Eir, the National Broadband Plan, SIRO and others in his sector. A lack of vision or ambition seems to be the message. Ireland is stuck at sub-IGB in most cases where broadban…

E188 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin The Business Post (previously known as the Sunday Business Post) has changed its model to attract those elusive readers. Once a weekly print publication nowadays it's a daily digital bulletin with a slimmed-down Sunday print version. Colm O'Reilly, COO of The Business Post Group, (the newspaper, an…

Episode 187 That Great Business Show with Conall O Morain Tony Dignam, founder Agile Executives, bringing affordable C-Suite executives from top-end companies to your SME. He must be doing something right because he grew from five consultants to 80 (!) in just one month, He's now at 120 consultants. Previously he worked as a consultant to Bank of I…

E186 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin With thanks to Mentorswork.ie - a free government funded mentoring initiative. Check in out. On this episode, 186, Dan Nugent of Amber Eyewear on why his company is now called EverAmbr. He explains why you should avoid selling 'vertically' where you can run out of headroom. His company was growing …

E185 That Great Business Show with Conall O Morain Roseanne Longmore, CEO and co-founder, Coro - the world's first baby milk flow monitor. Founded seven years ago the company has recently become an 'overnight success' completing another successful funding around, bringing to over €6m funding the company has gathered to bring its unique product to t…

E184 That Great Business Show with Conall O Morain Creganna is an outstanding Irish success story that not too many have heard of. Founded in 1980 by the late Ian Quinn, he started by making metal boxes that housed early desktop computers. With a couple of 'necessary pivots' along with way, Ian created what was one of the world’s largest maker of h…

E183 That Great Business Show with Conall O Morain Emily Brick, founder, Athena Analytics wants to unlock the potential of every student in every classroom. Using machine learning they say they can help schools understand a student’s unique, individual potential and ensure that no student gets missed within the school system. It's a monitoring tool…

E182 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin Marion Cantillon, founder Pitseal, makers of a silage pit top-secret sealant (partly seaweed but ssshhh!) that stops the use of plastic. When the cattle eat the seaweed/silage mix so far there's a sizeable cut in the cattle methane's output. She's studying for a PhD in aspects of methane emissions.…

E181 That Great Business Show with Conall O Morain Marketing Director of PUIG (they own many of the world's biggest perfume brands), Ashley McDonnell on getting a 'no' from PUIG HR ten minutes after submitting her job application. Find out how she got hired five days later. If you work in TV, wait'll you hear what's happening in China. TV in China …

E180 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin John Tuohy of OohPod has just raised a further €5.4 million to expand his parcel locker business across Ireland and next to the UK. He has 120 locations at the moment and he wants to get to 300 in the next 12 months. Next he's going to help return items for online shopping companies. His solution c…

E179 That Great Business Show Ger Davis, managing director of Irish Life Health A year and a half ago, on episode 90 of That Great Business Show, we had a special recording with Professor Martin Curley, who at that time was heading the digital transformation of the Irish Health System at the HSE. His insights were truly fascinating. Martin is no lo…

E178 That Great Business Show CEO Paul Merriman, Fairstone Ireland A little over a year ago financial planning firm PAX was bought by UK wealth management company Fairstone, the first move for Fairstone into Ireland. And they have ambitious plans for Ireland. BTW, we believe Paul may have broken the Irish speech speed record during our chat! And if…

E177 That Great Business Show This is simple. You have to listen to all of the podcast to find out where to go to live, (and live well) and save tax. There are (plural!) answers from Waterford's Stephanie Wickham who knows these things. The answer may surprise you, but it's so good that Stephanie is taking her own advice! Separately, Natalie Garlan…

E176 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin Luke Mackey is co-founder and CEO of Kota - aiming to be the Stripe of the insurance industry, allowing businesses from 2 to 200 to instantly set up pension, health insurance and life assurance providers globally with real-time enrolment, flexible contributions, and an employee app – all in one pla…

On E175 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin Gerard Horn is the third generation of the Horn family that has been making gloves in Dublin. Back in the 1960s they were employing more than a 100 people, making gloves fro Christian Dior, Harrods, Bloomingdales and Saks. They also had a contract to supply 10,000 First Communion gloves. The dis…

E174 That Great Business Show with Conall O Morain With thanks to De Facto Shave.dot com Brian O’ Donoghue, Director - AML, FinCrime, Risk, Governance, Regulatory @ Grant Thornton Ireland Brian tells us about some brilliant, but well hidden, government funded upskilling programmes particularly in his own fintech area. He found his course by chance …

E137 That Great Business Show Phone maker Apple ($165 billion in cash on balance sheet) and Goldman Sachs are joining forces to take on the US savings market - it's not quite banking, yet, but it does mean savers will have high yield accounts in their pockets, ready for spending. Who gets your spending pattern knowledge? Apple, with 2 billion devic…

Three Irish women, Jenny O'Connell, Louise O'Riordan and Aoife Matthews, based in different countries, selling their high-end women’s health supplement to the world. Developed solely with the female in mind, because women are not small men – is what they say. And, unbelievably, women were only included in clinical trials only from 1993 onward. And …

E172 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin Short, simple and to the point. Tony Dunne, Country Manager USA with the Bank of Ireland shares his amazing Rolodex or contacts book with Team GBS, our loyal listeners. He starts by saving businesses who want to set up business in the US one or two million dollars. Not bad in just 24 minutes. He ca…

E171 That Great Business Show with Conall O Morain With thanks to Daft.ie This is something very special. It'll take you a while to find out what guest Ruairi Curtin, New York out of Cork, does. We don't want to spoil the surprise. He used to work with Enterprise Ireland and maybe, just maybe, he may have done a little bit of double-jobbing there. …

Episode 170 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin Highly Commended Award, Irish Podcast Awards Conor Kelly has been working, working, working since he was...very young. A milk round made him the wealthiest of his young teen peers. DJ'ing and Ikea sent him through college in Dublin. A natty Covid invention got him to his Masters in London. H…

Episode 169 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin 'Highly Commended Award Winner', Irish Podcast Awards Ciara Stanley is Powerhouse Female Entrepreneur of the Year. Find out why. Could it be because she's boss at embroidery business Ardattin Embroidery, or that she’s also the boss at Ballybar Ireland, her own clothing line and yet again, it…