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Laminate Flooring Consumers please do beware of marketing strategy currently at large. We must all learn that promised 50% discounts by leading retailers should immediately beg the question in our minds as interested consumers “50% of what initial starting price?“.
Allow me to give you an example of this current marketing strategy of which I speak, and by doing so demonstrate, at first hand, the importance of always shopping local, when ever possible.
New discount sales advertised on television by Noyeks, Ormonde Business Park, Kilkenny, offering 50% discount on Laminate Flooring, is not the real bargain it might first appear to be.
A call by phone today to Noyeks, Kilkenny requesting a price for Commercial Laminate Flooring for 3 x 10ft x15ft bedrooms, revealed a quote price of €520 if collected from their store.
A similar call by phone today to Stakelums Homevalue Hardware Racecourse Retail Park, Nenagh Road here in Thurles requesting a price for Commercial Laminate Flooring for 3 x10ft x15ft bedrooms revealed a quote price of €459.76 with the product delivered to your door.
This, for me, represents a saving of €60.22, plus €10.00 in fuel costs, plus a two hour return journey from Thurles. Both products are the same good quality and Stakelums have no Discount Sale running presently.
Makes you think, no?. I felt like parking my cement truck in their front gates.
Note: I did not have the time to contact other quality Thurles suppliers like Pat Hickey, Ikerrin Rd,Thurles or J.Ronayne, Arro Home and Garden, Dublin Road, Thurles for their price.
However this is further proof that it pays to ‘Shop Local’ my friends, so always check it out first.
 Small food production companies in Tipperary have a chance to win €25,000 in a competition aimed at generating new business ideas in the food sector.
This ‘Food Innovation Competition’ is anxious to find the best new food or drinks business ideas in the South East of Ireland.
The contest is open to existing food businesses or producers and any new entrants to this sector, whose companies are based in counties Tipperary, Kilkenny, Waterford, Carlow or Wexford.
The best idea will wins a prize of €25,000. The prize, sponsored by Bord Bia (Irish Food Board) and the South East County and City Enterprise Boards, will comprise €15,000 for consumer research and €10,000 for branding, designing and packaging.
The aim of the competition is to encourage all food companies to bring any new innovative ideas to their full completion.
The winning idea will be provided with a complete support service from the Enterprise Board which will include help in producing a business plan, consultation with an intellectual property expert to advise on the protection of the idea, and advice on financing the business and grant-aid information.
An event to further promote this competition amongst those interested in taking part, will be held in Lawlors Hotel in Dungarvan, Co Waterford, on October 6th.
 Following a doubling in the rate of electricity disconnections in the four months up to July last and a warning yesterday by Bord Gáis of a “social middle-class recession,” the Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources has called Bord Gáis, ESB, Airtricty and the Commission for Energy Regulation to a meeting of the Committee set for next Wednesday September 29th.
110,000 families who ran up huge arrears on their electricity and gas bills over the past nine months have been forced to sign special repayment plans, to avoid having services cut off.
Bord Gáis is now disconnecting 230 homes per month from gas supplies while the ESB is disconnecting 900 Irish homes each month or some 30 homes each day.
The Oireachtas Committee, of which Tipperary North TD Noel Coonan is a member, have taken this action following concerns expressed regarding the high disconnection rate in recent months, the cost of reconnection and the recent increases in electricity prices.
Speaking to Thurles.Info Deputy Coonan stated:
“Many households in North Tipperary have been impacted by disconnections. It has been revealed that almost 2,500 households a month, some 80 a day, are having their electricity disconnected after failing to pay their bills. In total, as of the beginning of September, 10,678 customers had been disconnected, more than in the whole of 2009. Bord Gáis is introducing a range of payment plans every five minutes for customers across the country, who have fallen into arrears. Electricity suppliers and the Regulator have agreed to our request to attend, so the Committee and I look forward to putting these issues to them and finding out how they intend to handle this worrying trend in North Tipperary and nationwide.”
There is also great concern among Oireachtas Committee members that the price for reconnecting electricity is excessively high and prohibitively expensive for many consumers.
 Roscrea Credit Union here in Co. Tipperary insists that its member’s money is safe after it recorded losses of €6m, while being forced to put aside €9.3m to cover bad debts.
Roscrea Credit Union insist that savings are guaranteed up to €100,000 for each member under the State’s Deposit Guarantee Scheme, but acknowledged it is seeking financial assistance from the League of Credit Unions.
Accounts for 2009 show that it had been forced to avail of a guarantee of €3m from the league’s savings-protection fund (SPS), latter a bail-out fund for credit unions that are experiencing funding problems.
The League of Credit Unions, said it was working with the board of Roscrea and added that Roscrea was complying fully and working with the regulator.
Members were informed at an annual general meeting earlier this month that no dividend would now be paid for the foreseeable future.
Roscrea Credit Union had assets of €53m last year, down from €55m in 2008.
 The Scottish distillers William Grant & Sons Ltd is to sell liqueur brands Irish Mist, Carolans and Frangelico to Gruppo Campari for €129 million.
There are expected to be no immediate job losses as a result of this deal since Gruppo Campari are signing a 10 year manufacturing services agreement for William Grant to provide blending and bottling services for the liqueur brands at its Clonmel bottling operations here in Co Tipperary. The division’s management and team involving 57 employees will transfer with the business on its disposal and William Grant will continue to operate the division’s packaging facility located at the group’s manufacturing site here in Clonmel.
William Grant purchased the three named brands from C&C Group plc earlier this year as part of a €300 million deal for its spirits division.
The Scottish distiller is retaining the Tullamore Dew Irish whiskey brand, and said it remained committed to making a significant investment in Ireland. The company announced earlier this month that it would establish its new global marketing office in Dublin, creating 17 jobs. The office will manage global marketing operations for the firm’s non-Scotch brands including Sailor Jerry, Hendrick’s Gin and Tullamore Dew.
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