#069:The Bottom Line - Business & Branding, SME Recovery, Retail -Shopping Local & Online.

This week on The Bottom Line, Simon O’ Dwyer, Managing Director of Threesixty joined John to chat through some of the current issues facing business, Simon also discusses his organisation and the work that they are doing with Kilkenny County Council on building a unified brand for Kilkenny.John Moran, former Secretary General of the Department of Finance and Director of the European Investment bank spoke with John about the role of SME’s in a transformed economic landscape and what needs to be done to make sure they survive for the long term.Phillip McDonald of Detail Menswear in Carlow and Kilkenny joined John to talk about how the first wave of Covid lead to a transformation of his business and how things have been going since retail has emerged from its second period in lockdown over the last week.With thanks to O’Neill Foley, Produced by Deirdre Dromey.To contact the show, email [email protected]