PR: SMEs need a better lifeboat.
PRESS RELEASE: SMEs need a better lifeboat. 09/04/20 Ireland’s examinership process is too expensive and cumbersome for most small businesses. SMEs need a simpler, administrative form of examinership available to them. As Covid-19 shutters many businesses, ISME believes that now is...
PR: ISME and Griffith College Join Forces to Support Businesses with FREE Online Training Programme in Response to COVID-19 Crisis
ISME and Griffith College Join Forces to Support Businesses with FREE Online Training Programme in Response to COVID-19 Crisis ‘Restart your Business, Rethink your Strategy’ Dublin, Tuesday 31st March 2020: ISME, The Irish SME association and Griffith College, the independent...
PR: Liquidity solution still awaited for SME survival
PRESS RELEASE 25/03/20 ISME welcomes the improvements in the COVID-19 Income Support Scheme. ISME notes that without aggressive action to introduce liquidity into the market, workers availing of the support will have no jobs to return to in a matter...
PR: SME Liquidity
19/03/20 ISME believes the Government needs to take a far more aggressive approach to maintain the liquidity of small business Covid19 has caused a societal crisis of confidence in the ability to spend, by consumers and employers. This crisis of...
PR: Maintaining viable businesses through Covid19
13/03/20 We must take measures to ensure the survival of as many small enterprises as possible throughout this event. SMEs employ almost 70% of the workforce, any increase in business mortality will have a significant negative impact on employment levels....
PR: ISME announce partnership with the Health and Safety Authority for their 2020 Roadshows
09/03/2020 Health and Safety focus for SMEs during 2020 Roadshows The HSA will be providing demons and advice at selected ISME Roadshows The next ISME Roadshow featuring the HSA will take place in the Midleton Park Hotel, Midleton, Co. Cork...
PR Q4 2019: Bank Watch Report
02/03/20 SME demand for credit is at 24%. Loan refusal rates decrease from 58% to 19%, with 44% being partially successful. 17% waiting longer than 4 weeks from permission to drawdown. 69% stated that banks are making it more difficult...
PR: ISME is coming to the North East for our next Roadshow
PRESS RELEASE: 21/02/20 ISME’s next Roadshow will take place in Gormanston, Co. Meath on the 27th February 2020 Key opportunity for businesses to network and ‘Pitch my business’ SME lobbying, Upskilling, Insurance Reform and Health and Safety will be discussed ...
ISME welcomes the OECD’s publication of its Economic Survey of Ireland 2020
PRESS RELEASE: 14/02/20 This publication could not be better timed, coming as it does in the middle of attempts to form the next government by the three largest parties. The Survey is not alone essential reading for our political parties; it...
Deafening silence from the bench on spurious claims
The withdrawal of a motor insurance claim against the MIBI by a claimant following production of video evidence presented Mr Justice Kevin Cross with a golden opportunity to address the cancer of bogus claims infecting our society. Justice Cross chose...
