The third generation of the Kavanagh family in Urlingford are having to revise the model for their coach business Chef Edward Spelman is leading the turnaround at ready-meal manufacturer Dunhill Cuisine Sean Quinn dropped a bundle with his CFD play in Anglo Irish Bank. However the extent of his loss is mostly a matter of conjecture Setanta backers dig deep to take on Sky Pohl family throws in the towel at Iralco INM throws up a shed load of surplus cash every year. No wonder Dennis O'Brien wants a slice Rita Shah's business was nearly wiped out by the plastic bag levy. Now she has made a big investment in recycling plastic bottles Navan man Maurice Muldoon goes online for tech kit buyers McConnells AFA merger propels Fogarty into the major league Fire Insurance Wipes Out Debt Pile At C&D Foods; McDonald's Restaurants of Ireland; Payzone's Underwhelming Fortunes; O'Brien's Communicorp Marches Across Europe; Cramptons Book €46m From Property Disposals; McMullan Bros Scale Back When Fields recently bought jewellery chain Fraser Hart in the UK, it took on a business twice its size Iqon Technologies; Jacob Fruitfield; Eddie Rocketts; Supermacs; Ashcoin; Thomas Crosbie Holdings; Stafford Sap Holdings; Des Kelly Carpets Microsoft's huge profit margins on Windows and Office mean that it can shrug off its Xbox fiasco Travel agents have had a rough time in recent years. However niche agents like long-haul specialist Escape2 are in growth mode Glenbeigh Construction is investing some of its bumper profits in storing thousands of boxes of documents The housing boom over the past decade has generated bumper profits for the principals in Newlyn Developments Family firm Butlers Chocolates has grown to a new level after going down the retail route with its own cafés The growing popularity of business process outsourcing has turned Abtran into one of Munster's star performers How has a textile manufacturer based in the Liberties in Dublin, founded in 1934, morphed into a global player in its sector BPI Telecom, a distributor of mobile handsets and accessories, was founded in 2000 with equity of €3. Now the Dublin firm has turnover in excess of €100m. Barry Napier, co-founder and chairman, explains the fast growth Chocolate firm Lily O'Briens fast expansion put a strain on the balance sheet in 2005 but invoice finance from Ulster Bank is facilitating the growth surge Irish Life & Permanent plc wishes away accounting standards when presenting its annual results Tipperary firm Gerkros Boilers has been on the go for 30 years. Now the company is an overnight success Sean Green, the young managing director of BMW Ireland, has been nursing his dealers back into the black after a torrid 2005 The latest accounts for software star Fineos show a halving of profits but the firm has €8m cash to weather any storm Liberating the value from their newspaper base in Cork has funded a dividend windfall for the Crosbie family Leading car distributor and retailer O'Flaherty Holdings has diversified into digital imaging Pure Telecom's focus on the business market has yielded dividends from a high-value customer base Remanufacture of servers, workstations and storage kit has become big business for Galway-based Multis Smart internet ideas can reap big dividends for entrepreneurs like Alan Scroope When she's not entertaining at the K Club, Angela Kennedy is one half of a company that likes to borrow big from the bank There are big margins in advising Tiger Cubs where to park their surplus cash It was magic after all. Investors in Smart Telecom believed that €82m of their equity couldn't just disappear. But they were wrong Can Iain MacDonald's Perlico succeeed where Oisin Fanning's Smart Telecom failed? A lot of builders hope so