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…

E168 That Great Business Show Winner Highly Commended Award, Business Podcast, Irish Podcast Awards Presenter Conall O Morain talks to three more great businesses Polar Ice Tech - CEO Damien McDonnell and GM Mairead O'Donnell explain all about their business-to-business 'ice' cleaning company. They're hyper efficient, holding their management meeti…

E167 That Great Business Show Mary Ann Pierce, MAP Digital, explains The New York Minute. It's all about the guilders, the Dough Ray Me....how to do business the All-American way, how to get your kids the best JI visa start in the US, why you have to 'pay it forward', why there's no space for false modesty, why abrupt is actually not abrupt, why fa…

E166 That Great Business Show It may sound like something from the old Soviet Union, but the Fractional Marketing Collective is a new business, and it’s going to save your business money. It’s brought to you by the same people who bring you the Indie List – that’s a listing business where a very large number of creatives are available to work on yo…

Neil McDonnell CEO and Marc O'Dwyer, Chair, both of ISME on the possibility of higher corporation tax, the rise in the national minimum wage, the rise in sick days allowance leading to a 'sicker society', the lack of understanding of what it takes to run a successful small business, Ireland is a very hard place to keep a business going. 15.00" What…

E164 - #BeachheadUSA We launch our Beachhead USA series where on this and subsequent episodes we’re going to talk you through how your business should and could enter the US market. We have the ultimate cheat sheet for you to crack the USA… And we start with a star. The Governor of Connecticut, Ned Lamont, says he’ll personally take your call if yo…

Kevin Maughan, co-founder of Urban Volt, a company that will put solar panels on your business rooftop at no cost to you. He quotes a well known business proverb 'There's worse things to being wrong in business, you can be too early'. They believed in their business proposition when others didn't and they had to wait, and wait, for the market to co…

Episode 162 That Great Business Show - Ireland's Best Business Podcast Ken Fitzpatrick, CEO, Digital Marketing Institute - selling DMI twice, why they were bought by training company BPP (they own a physical university) that is backed by TDR (an investment company), the largest digital marketing training company in the world, the future of digital …

Reviving the rag trade. E161 That Great Business Show - Anneliese Duffy originally joined TeamGBS on Episode 21 (two and a half years ago) told us that she was going to bring clothes manufacturing back to Ireland. Now, she's made a delivery. She has just launched Fashion Connect Ireland, a Specialist Training Centre that is recruiting a 17 week cer…

E160 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin With thanks to Daft.ie Laura Lee Strategy & Change Director - Western Europe at Molson Coors explains why the world's 3rd largest brewery, 14 years in Ireland, doesn't want your CV. Of course they are hiring, but they're moving away from CVs in their recruitment process. Find out why. (Spoiler aler…

E159 That Great Business Show With thanks to Daft.ie How to get paid in business, Part II - Christine Cullen, MD of CRIF Vision-net On E126 we were joined by Sharon Farrell of credit consultancy FACE – when she explained one of the basics of business to us…that’s how to get paid. An absolute essential Sharon said, was to do a credit check on your p…

E158 That Great Business Show - Irish Podcast Awards nominee Best Business Podcast & Best Interview Award Presenter Conall O Móráin is joined by Bernie Everard, CEO, SPADE, the country's first open plan shared commercial kitchen in Dublin 7 is joined by Brazilian native Adrianna Cocenza Novaes, who along with husband Marcelo, produce Lebanese food …

E157 Conor McEnroy, Chair of Paraguay's largest bank, Sudameris, explains how he has grown from #5 bank in that South American country to #1 since he first joined us on E15 of That Great Business Show. Paraguay he says is like Ireland in the 1970s, with a population of 6 million, spread over an area the size of California. California is 475% larger…

E156 That Great Business Show - Conor McEnroy, Chair, Sudameris Bank, Paraguay's biggest bank. Conor first joined TeamGBS on Episode 15 when he described shootings, kidnappings, bombings and how and why he bought his first bank in Paraguay. It's a truly extraordinary story, which is why it remains one of our top podcasts. Well he's back. This time …

E155 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin Thanks to DoneDeal.ie Marc Cooper, CEO, School of Automation, knows the robots are taking over and he's recruiting people to help them do that! His company has teamed up with the Clare Limerick Education and Training Board (ETB) to run fully remote online courses (so you can learn from anywhere) in…

E154 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin With thanks to DoneDeal.ie Luke Hanlon is Chief Supply Chain Officer, Musgrave Musgrave is big. It covers wholesale, retail, food production, food preparation. They cover the island of Ireland plus they have a growing business in Spain. How do they second guess customers, large and small, and how m…

E153 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin With thanks to DoneDeal.ie Brian Donaldson, CEO, Maxol on the future of the forecourt and what they've learnt from their first EV charging stations Plus why his company is backing HomeGrown at Maxol, encouraging early stage companies to sell in 70 Maxol outlets. His 'hire in a heartbeat' is Alan 'L…

E152 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin With thanks to DoneDeal.ie Enda Corneille, chair of Arab Irish Chamber of Commerce explains the many, many opportunities available across the Arab world (stretching from Morocco to the Middle East) where 450 million sophisticated and relatively wealthy consumers want your goods and services. Of cou…

With thanks to DoneDeal.ie E151 - Derek Kehoe, CEO BNP-Paribas, Ireland Corporate and Institutional banking is their main business in Ireland They're not planning on opening branch banking in Ireland He talks about issues around mortgages in Ireland - and the fact that some don't have to pay them back. He explains how the CEO in Paris 'knocked peop…

E150 That Great Business Show A fishy tail. Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) CEO Caroline Bocquel has a billion Euro to give to the fishing sector to try to ease some of Brexit's burdens. Of course Ts&Cs apply BUT the money is for waaaaaaaaay more than fish and fishing. There are grants for boat building, sea based skin care products, oyster rotating mach…

E149 That Great Business Show Ivan Wahlrab, co-founder StrongBó, a weighing machine for cattle, 'set to revolutionise the cattle industry', that has been part funded by The European Space Agency. Yes. You read that right. Now listen to find out why. His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Dr. Fiona Edwards Murphy Grit Young, Strategy and Transactions Partner, E…

E148 That Great Business Show Chris Deans, newly minted CEO Portakabin, Ireland, former soccer-pro with Derby County AFC, then EMEA sales director with Crane Logistics now swapped to a wholly different sector at Portakabin. Why? To keep himself fresh, a new challenge and recommends it wholly. Hire in a heartbeat? Phil Giles, director of football at…

E 147 That Great Business Show Presented by Conall O Morain With thanks to Done Deal Motors Tersha Willis and Ed Hayes, two of three founders of Terrible (it's not them, it's their company name!) talk all things merch (andise) and how bands (including U2) can up their game to make a living. We even get an industry insider review of the best up and …

E146 That Great Business Show Presented by Conall O Morain Which would you prefer, ten years in the slammer of a half million Euro fine...or both? Those are the choices facing company directors gone bad. That's what That Great Business Show will try to help you avoid. You're welcome! David Duffy, founder of the Corporate Governance Institute, says …

E145 That Great Business Show Mark Tottenham BL is the expert on experts, or expert witnesses at least. He has actually written the book about it. On this episode we take a more light hearted look at some well known, 'not so expert' experts and being a business show, we see if there's a business in being an expert witness. Hosted on Acast. See acas…

E144 That Great Business Next time your 'kids' (3 - 30!) are sitting, playing video games that you think are a huge waste of time, DO NOT STOP THEM. Why? Because gaming is a truly massive business and they could become part of it. To learn more about the industry and businesses within it we are joined on E144 by Stuart Dempsey founder and CEO of Ga…

E143 That Great Business Show OONAGH O HAGAN, OWNER MEAGHERS PHARMACIES explains how she competes with big, big international competitors - Service is key. Business is about people and she explains how she competes on service and finds the best service providers for her stores. At the end of the day they look for people with empathy. And she finds …

E32 #BusinessBites Business Bites is where we bring you the best bits of That Great Business Show, in bite sized pieces. On E39, in just twenty minutes, Anthony Tattan, founder of Business IN South Africa details the opportunities and benefits of basing a branch of your business there. S. Africa is the place to find skilled, English-as-first-langua…

It's just like the script from a soap opera Former COO of MooCall John Larkin is winding down another business, finds a notebook where he has jotted down 'brilliant business ideas', sees that he had previously looked at the personal soap business and instead of talking and researching it further, he just went and did it. It being, he set up The Bla…