A spectacular campaign shot in Roundstone, Connemara stars Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Celia Holman Lee, Max Hart, Travy, KhakiKid, Lauren Whelan, Marwa Noelle Ali and Ivana Miličević. Coming Home: An Island in Motion is the title of the striking 2026 campaign just revealed by Ireland Fashion Week powered by Visa, which gathers eight headline figures from Irish sport, culture, music, film and fashion on the extraordinary Atlantic shore at Roundstone, Connemara. The campaign launched on 18 September, the Ireland Fashion Week 2026 hero image beamed at enormous scale across the Convention Centre, with a city-wide OOH rollout then reaching 85 Dublin locations.…
Author: David Ashworth
David Ashworth
David Ashworth spent fifteen years in print and digital journalism covering UK news. He started at a regional evening paper in the North West, moved to a national digital outlet, and spent four years as a business and economics correspondent before going freelance. He writes about the economy, public finances, employment, and the corporate news that lands differently depending on whether you read it from a boardroom or a break room. He files on deadline and prefers evidence to opinion. David lives in Lancaster. He reads the ONS releases before most people have read the headlines about them, and considers the lag time instructive.
Quick answer: An agency with wins already banked in your field delivers results earlier, and those results last longer than a generalist’s best pitch, since it knows your buyers, your competitors and the rules you operate under. Fluency in a vertical cuts down the hours sunk into research and trial runs, freeing capacity to repeat moves that have proven themselves at businesses much like yours. Usually a single question settles the choice of digital marketing agency: does this team truly speak my industry’s language, or will I be paying for their training? Nearly every generalist outfit can get campaigns live…
Over the past two years or so, pensions have featured in the financial headlines to an unusual degree. Tax reforms, pre-Budget speculation and the inheritance tax rules still to come have given savers cause to examine money that, for many, had simply been sitting untouched. Behaviour, it seems, is shifting as a result. Financial Conduct Authority figures, as reported in the Financial Times, show tax-free withdrawals from pensions of £22 billion during 2025-26. The equivalent total in 2023-24 was £11.2 billion, meaning that, across the past two years, almost £40 billion has come out tax-free. There are plenty of possible…
Istanbul, Türkiye – Tüyap Fair and Congress Center will again play host to Eurasia Packaging Istanbul, counted among the foremost trade platforms serving packaging across the Eurasian region, with the 31st edition running from 13 to 16 October 2026. Reed Tüyap Fairs Inc. runs the event in collaboration with Turkish Packaging Manufacturers Association (ASD) plus other sector bodies, under the support of the Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Trade, drawing together packaging producers, technology suppliers, buyers, investors and industry professionals from Türkiye and markets abroad. Spanning packaging products, processing solutions, production technologies, converting and printing, the show will once more…
This December in Istanbul, Tüyap stages the 35th edition of Plast Eurasia, where production technologies, raw materials and plastics machinery are gathered under one roof, while the organising team intensifies its outreach to trade visitors in major European markets in the run-up to opening day. İstanbul – Running from 2-5 December 2026 at Tüyap Fair and Congress Center in Istanbul, Plast Eurasia is organised by Tüyap Fairs and Exhibitions Organization Inc. in cooperation with PAGEV, backed by the Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Trade. Purchasing professionals, distributors, raw material producers, technology providers and manufacturers will be drawn together at the…
In the Midlands, a warehouse manager recently raised concerns about a back fire door that had stopped closing fully. The security engineer who inspected it worried less about the door itself than about the delay: weeks had gone by without anyone picking up on the fault. A dropped hinge had left a gap, staff had held the door ajar several times to ventilate the space, and nobody had tested the alarm sensor on that entry point in the three years since fitters commissioned the system. Luckily, the story ended there: no intruder, no stolen goods, no incident log. Yet gaps…
Sustained customer support enables borrowers to grasp the choices available to them, adapt to shifts in their situation and administer their loan across the full repayment term. Borrowing is frequently regarded as a transaction that concludes as soon as an application is accepted and the money is paid out. Up to that stage, applicants may turn to a lender’s service team for guidance on eligibility criteria, the application procedure, agreement terms or supporting paperwork. Nevertheless, the value of customer support continues well beyond the approval stage. Within the regulated UK credit sector, responsible lending is not confined to the original…
Garnet Trade, a financial markets firm operating internationally, has struck a $2 million technology partnership with Eximus, aiming to bolster its technical backbone and upgrade the digital trading experience it offers clients. The deal spans work on Garnet Trade’s CRM platform alongside technology projects tied to Garnet Private, a trading front end being pitched as an alternative to MT5. London, United Kingdom: With technology carrying ever greater weight in how trading is experienced and how operations run across the financial sector, Garnet Trade is stepping up its spending on tech. Under the $2 million Eximus deal, the firm intends to…
Launched at Cersaie 2026, The Code concept and a line-up of fresh innovations from VitrA Tiles were shown to industry professionals, guided by the brand’s Material Intelligence approach. Bologna, Italy: VitrA Tiles exhibited at Cersaie 2026, the international trade fair covering ceramic tile and bathroom furnishings, which Bologna, Italy hosted on September 21-25. On the stand, the company welcomed customers, architects, industry professionals and designers. Material Intelligence shaped the whole space, which served as the launch platform for the new 2027 ranges and innovations. “Every material has a code. Material Intelligence deciphers it.” The line sits at the heart of…
For many supporters, the rhythm of a football season used to be simple: a match on Saturday afternoon, an occasional midweek fixture and a cup run if luck allowed. The growth of European club competition has reshaped that pattern, turning the week into a carefully managed sequence of domestic and continental games. For clubs that qualify, the calendar now bends around Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights as much as it does around the weekend. European football does not sit alone, of course. League schedules must also leave room for domestic cups and international fixtures, but it is the continental competitions…