PM Group has €50m to spend, Coveney warns of UK food shortages and gin is in

Engineer and project manager PM Group has up to €50 million to spend on acquisitions to add to the two companies that it has bought this year. Brexit and the strong euro left PM Group's profits trailing by 14 per cent at €9.1 million last year, the Irish-based multi-national said yesterday. Barry O'Halloran has the details.

Food shortages in the UK lasting up to four months were "not inconceivable" after it quits the EU next March given the potential for a hard Brexit, a leading food company chief executive has said. Simon Carswell reports.

Simon also tells us that the Revenue Commissioners are preparing for full customs checks involving officials from a number of government departments in case no deal is reached on Brexit, a senior Revenue official has said.

It's official. Gin is in. Sales of the spirit once informally known as mother's ruin jumped last year with volumes rising 47.2 per cent. Charlie Taylor reports.

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