More and more people are considering starting a business. This is confirmed by the latest Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Report for Ireland (www.gemconsortium.org), which reveals that some 270,000 adults have expressed a desire to start a business within the next 3 years. GEM also reports that 44% of Irish adults perceive that there are good opportunities to establish [...]

Earlier this year, the Kilkenny CEB piloted a series of ‘creative workshops’ with a group of CEB client companies. The group included companies from the neighbouring counties of South Tipperary and Carlow. This pilot programme proved extremely successful at introducing the effectiveness of creative thinking techniques in assisting participants to consider their existing product and service [...]

It doesn’t seem like over 2 months ago since I posted on the information seminar we held in conjunction with the Crafts Council of Ireland (CCOI) for the ‘Getting Your Craft Product to Market’ Programme!
Well yesterday I attended the function to award the certificates of completion to the craft producers that participated in the course, along with Una Parsons (the [...]

Hi there again,
I presented at the ’Starting a Business Seminar’ jointly hosted by the Kilkenny CEB and Bank of Ireland (BOI) Kilkenny last night in the Ormonde Hotel. I was one of 7 speakers at the event, which I initially thought was rather extensive, however each presentation was limited to a maximum of 10 minutes and the feedback I [...]

A very busy Enterprise Week came to a close on Friday afternoon last with the announcement at a ceremony in the Lyrath Estate Hotel that Ormonde Technologies Ltd are this year’s recipient of the Kilkenny CEB - Enterprise Award.
Ormonde Technologies (www.surfbox.ie) is a fledgling company owned by Thomas Marry and Declan Lennon, and they received their Enterprise [...]

Enterprise Week is now in full flow.
Last night (2nd October) our ’Enterprise Exhibition’ event took place in the Rivercourt Hotel, and it really was an expo of all of the agencies that provide support to small business, along with a wide range of local business member and network organisations, exhibiting their wares under one roof.  
We thought it [...]

The south east women in business conference held in Wexford on the 19th and 20th of September last was a tremenduous success.
The speakers who addressed a wide range of topics were very well received. You can obtain full details of each of the presentations from the conference blog at www.southeastwomeninbusiness.com.
One of the speakers - Paula Fitzsimons, [...]

You could be forgiven for thinking that Ireland is about to spin into an economic abyss, everytime you open a newspaper, tune into the radio or turn on the television. The media seem to be playing on our cultural disposition towards defeatism and negativity in this country or on what the economist Cathal Guiomard refers to [...]

Enterprise Week is now just 2 weeks away - starting on Monday 1st October.
The Minister for Trade at the Department of Enterprise, Trade & Employment, John McGuinness, TD will launch the packed schedule of events planned for Enterprise Week in Kilkenny, at a breakfast briefing to be held in the Newpark Hotel on Monday 1st October.
The Minister performed [...]

We at Kilkenny CEB are always keen to support activities or events that will contribute to the local economy and to increased business for the small business community. Well there is perhaps no bigger single event in Kilkenny than the Kilkenny Arts Festival!
There is a tremeduous buzz and hive of activity on the streets of Kilkenny at [...]