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KitKat four-finger bars will also carry the tag from January in the UK, which represents about 250 million bars. KitKats make up about 23 per cent of Nestle's UK confectionery sales. A quarter of that is the four-finger bars, which...

Seldom can a budget speech be called historic before it is delivered, but the one that Finance Minister Brian Lenihan will make on Wednesday already qualifies. Against the backdrop of a budget deficit that next year will reach 12pc of...

The downturn halted in the last quarter and positive economic growth is set to return by the end of the year, according to a forecast by the Northern Bank. Among the factors contributing to the recovery is an exchange rate...

Dublin Airport are set to rise by around 33pc if the new T2 terminal meets its November 2010 opening deadline, the Commission for Aviation Regulation (CAR) said yesterday. The new charges were welcomed by the airport operator, the Dublin Airport...

TSB is the latest lender planning to let staff go, telling employees yesterday that it wants to close branches and shed 120 workers. The loss-making bank plans to cut its workforce by 5pc through a voluntary redundancy scheme. The scheme...

The Irish Times takes no responsibility for the content or availability of other websites Union representatives will meet Aer Lingus this afternoon in an attempt to hammer out an agreement over the airline's cost cutting plan. The meeting comes after...

The Government should consider banning penalty interest rates on homeloan customers who fall behind mortgage repayments, EBS Building Society Chief Risk Officer Fidelma Clarke told a parliamentary committee in Dublin today. Meanwhile, the building society has announced that it will...

But the agency put the outlook for the rating going forward on stable due to Dublin's aggressive measures to solve its problems. The euro trimmed gains against the dollar and the yen while the spread between Irish and euro zone...

Datalex expects losses to jump to $3m (€2m) this year as its operating environment continues to deteriorate. In an interim management statement yesterday, the Dublin -based company said that its third quarter revenue was down 19pc year-on-year at $5.4m.