Business Barometer

Celebrating being Irish on St Patrick's Day

As an Irish owned Company Information and Credit Risk Agency, we're getting our St. Patrick's Day hats on in order to celebrate all things Irish this week! To do that, we're going to start looking at the numbers:

181,350 - Irish companies with a status of Normal
5,708 - new Irish businesses set up in 2013
4,558 - first time directors of Irish companies in 2013
3,286 - new Irish companies set up so far this year - up 10% on 2012

Did you know... ...Patrick is the third most popular name for a Male director in Ireland. Patricia is the 5th most popular amongst female directors.

  Male Director   Female Director
John Mary
Michael Margaret
Patrick Anne
David Catherine
James Patricia


...St. Patrick used the three leaf shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity to Irish people...there are 73 Irish companies with a "Normal" status that have Shamrock in their name   ...the most common star sign for the director of an Irish company is Cancer... Aries and Pisces are second and third respectively.   ...Dublin is the most popular location for start-ups in 2013 accounting for over 40% of new companies... Cork and Galway are the second and third most popular locations.

Insolvency Notices

616

The number of companies that have collapsed this year. This figure is up 56% compared to last year
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PREDICTIVE CREDIT REPORTS

Our Credit Reports are predicting over 80% of insolvencies at up to 6 months in advance.

Appointments

LIQUIDATORS

  • 28 Companies

E8 (Notice Of Appointment Of Receiver)

  • 23 Companies

EXAMINERS

  • 1 Company

Closures

11

The number of companies that have closed this week.

New Startups

New Companies

  • 302 Companies

New Businesses

  • 317 Businesses

Important Changes

Changed Status

  • 396 Companies

HIGH COURT NOTICES

  • 1 Company

Strike off & Struck off Companies

Strike Off

  • 218 Companies

Struck Off

  • 1 Company

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