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Retail

Ireland’s retail businesses are a cornerstone of our towns and communities, creating vital jobs and connecting people every day. But retailers like you are facing new pressures like spiraling costs, rising customer expectations and online competition, that are making trading more complex and challenging.

 

The good news is, you don’t have to go it alone. The National Enterprise Hub offers a range of supports, including training programmes and funding, to help you to adapt to the new challenges and opportunities in retail. Get in touch today and get the help you need to set your business up for a healthy future.

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Featured retail supports


Here are some of the most popular Retail supports.

Explore supports best suited for businesses in the Retail industry.

Small Loan

Small low-cost loans

This is a small low cost loan with minimal paperwork requirements.

Loans

Mentoring

Get one-on-one advice and guidance from experienced mentors

In business, it’s helpful to get advice from someone who truly understands where you are coming from. This support matches experienced business people with small business owners/managers who need practical guidance.

Advice & Mentoring

Solas Micro-Qualifications

Upskill your employees to future-proof your business

The micro-qualifications program from SOLAS offers short accredited qualifications for employees, designed to fit their work schedules at little or no cost to employers.  They are created in partnership with industry and provided at a local level by the Education and Training Boards network. 

Training & Programmes

Trading Online Voucher Scheme

Develop an online presence for your small business

A strong online presence is essential for businesses to succeed in today's digital age. With this support, you can develop your e-commerce capabilities like website creation, online marketing, or IT consultancy to improve your online presence.

Grants & Funding

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Large Industry Energy Network (LIEN)

Support for Large Energy Users in Ireland Large

The SEAI Large Industry Energy Network (LIEN) is a program in Ireland that supports large energy users in improving their energy efficiency and reducing their carbon emissions.

Advice & Mentoring

The SEAI Large Industry Energy Network (LIEN) is for large energy users in Ireland. This specifically refers to companies with an annual energy spend of €1 million or more. These companies can be from any industry sector, but some examples include:

  • Manufacturing plants
  • Large data centres
  • Pharmaceutical companies
  • Food processing facilities

Eligibility is subject to terms and conditions.

HR & OD Community of Practice

Nurturing HR & OD excellence for scalable business growth.

The HR & OD CoP is a collaborative platform bringing together HR and OD leaders to share knowledge, address challenges, and drive innovation. Through interactive roundtables and peer learning groups, we foster a dynamic community focused on exploring and overcoming HR and OD challenges, exchanging best practices, and uncovering emerging trends and solutions.

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Training & Programmes

Advice & Mentoring

You may be eligible if:

  • You are an Enterprise Ireland client company.
  • Targeted towards HR Managers, HR Directors, Chief People Officers, who are responsible for leading the people function within their business
  • Eligibility is subject to terms and conditions.

Start-Up Capital Incentive

Tax relief for family backing new businesses

Family are often the key investors in new micro-enterprises. The Start-Up Capital Incentive (SCI) provides tax relief to family members who invest early stage micro-enterprises. 

Grants & Funding

SCI helps new micro-enterprises attract investment from family members (such as a spouse or civil partner, ancestor, lineal descendant or sibling). 

You may be eligible if: 

  • You are a micro-enterprise that employs less than 10 people. 

  • You are carrying out a qualifying new venture. 

  • You have not commenced or made preparations to commence carrying on any trade/business more than seven years before the share issue date. 

  • You do not have any partner/linked enterprises. 

Eligibility is subject to terms and conditions which can be found on the Revenue website. 

Leasing and Hire Purchase

Get flexible funding for vehicles and machinery

Flexible funding schemes, like hire purchase agreements, allow you to own the asset at the end of the contract. While a finance lease allows you to rent the asset for as long as you need it, then return it. 

Loans

You might be eligible if: 

  • You are a small to medium business 

Eligibility is subject to terms and conditions.

IDA Ireland Green Programme

Support to implement sustainable practices for multinational organisations

IDA Ireland offers a program specifically for their existing clients to explore and implement sustainable practices.

Grants & Funding

You may be eligible if:

  • You are an existing IDA client

Small Loan

Small low-cost loans

This is a small low cost loan with minimal paperwork requirements.

Loans

You might be eligible if: 

  • For both Start Up & Established businesses with low funding requirements
  • Your business has fewer than 10 full time employees
  • Your business has an annual turnover of less than €2 million
  • Your business has experienced difficulty in securing a loan from the banks
  • Living in Ireland

Eligibility is subject to terms and conditions.

IDA Ireland Training Grant

Create your Talent Development Plan

The training grant is a financial incentive program designed to support existing client companies in upskilling and developing their workforce.

Training & Programmes

Grants & Funding

You may be eligible if: 

  • You are an IDA company that can submit a talent development plan reflecting the upskilling and reskilling needs of their people to address strategic business challenges.

JobsPlus Subsidy

Provide an unemployed person with a job opportunity

JobsPlus is a financial incentive to encourage employers to offer job opportunities to unemployed people.

Grants & Funding

Businesses with recruitment needs but need to manage the cost of employment. 

You may be eligible if:

  • You are registered as a business with the Revenue Commissioners and are tax compliant 
  • You offer full-time employment of at least 30 hours per week, over a minimum of 4 days. 

Eligibility is subject to terms and conditions.

Growth and Sustainability Loan Scheme

Low-cost loans for growth, resilience and sustainability

This support offers loans of up to €3 million. These loans can be used to make long-term investments in equipment, premises, process innovation or research and development.

Loans

You might be eligible if: 

  • You are a small to medium business
  • You are a small mid-cap company (A small mid-cap is an enterprise that is not an SME but has fewer than 500 employees)

Eligibility is subject to terms and conditions.

Lean and Digitalisation Business Offer

Lean and digital transformation support for multinational companies in Ireland

Grants & Funding

You might be eligible if:

  • You are an existing IDA client company

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