Category: 2016 Archive

SalesOptimize opens the door to the $1.9 trillion global e-Commerce market. They have mapped the internet to find all the online shops in the world.  Irish owned start up SalesOptimize has developed a B2B search engine with a difference. It is a marketing analysis & sales lead generation search engine designed to help businesses sell and break into the e-Commerce market.
e-Commerce is the business of selling online – a rapidly growing market that is estimated to be worth $1.9 trillion
Since it was set up in 2013, SalesOptimize, which is a High Potential Start Up (HPSU) supported by Enterprise Ireland, has been researching and building its Business-to-Business (B2B) online sales lead generation platform. Using the latest data mining and analytics technology, its research team has compiled contact details and key data on over 1.7 million active online shops globally.
The data available to SalesOptimize users includes crucial intelligence such as contact details of key executives (in many cases email and/or telephone numbers), how much revenue is generated by that site, payment platform and shipping service used, e-Commerce technology and more.
“For most products or services, as long as they can be ordered on the internet, we can deliver first class, qualified leads,” commented co-founder and CEO, Liz Fulham. “Say you make wellies, for example, we can supply well researched contact details for global websites that sell wellington boots.”
“And in reverse, if you’re on the look out to buy wellies in time for the Ploughing Championships, we can tell you the best websites to go to – saving you time trawling the net for hours looking for online shops that sell wellies!’
The SalesOptimize service went live in February this year. Already it has generated a number of Irish and international brands and has created 11 jobs in Ireland.
Liz Fulham their CEO has been excited by the reaction when she presents. One financial adviser commented, “This can become a $200m company very quickly.”
The service, starts at $299 (€266) per month for 150 sales leads. This provides access to over 1.7m online shops across over 20 countries. It is designed to be integrated if a company has a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system including Salesforce, Close.io and others.
The potential of SalesOptimize is reflected in the fact that the company has already received five requests from customers and prospective buyers for exclusivity. In other words, the customers thought the technology was so powerful that they didn’t want SalesOptimize to sell it to their competitors.
“We don’t do exclusive deals. It’s against our philosophy plus there’s enough rich data and sales contact information in our system to go round everyone,” comments Liz. We are here to help people grow their sales internationally and help Ireland be a dominant player in Big Data Analytics and e-Commerce
A free trial of SalesOptimize’s sales lead search engine is available on https://www.salesoptimize.com/trial/

2016 has seen the launch of two new Carbery Plastics products that are aimed at improving farm yard efficiency, safety and security. Carbery Plastics launched the Carbery Plastics 6,000 Litre Fuel Management System earlier this year. This system provides the ability to analyse fleet fuel consumption per vehicle and/or per driver allowing for more efficient fuel use, fuel storage and over all fuel management. 2016 has also seen the launch of the Carbery Plastics Chemical Bund Store, which provides safe and secure storage of agricultural chemicals such as pesticides and fungicides. The Chemical Bund Store is designed and manufactured tocontrolled containment of any possible chemical or hazardous spills,and meets the chemical storage requirements expected by inspectors during Department of Agriculture’s Cross Compliance and BordBia’s inspections.Carbery Plastics will be displaying the Carbery Plastics 6,000 Litre Fuel Management Systemand the Carbery Plastics Chemical Bund Store at their stand at the 2016 Plough Championships. Stand: Block 4, Row 23, Stand 572.

Food for Health Ireland researchers undertake the largest study of the impact of cheese on Irish heart health.

For years, cheese has been demonized as a food high in saturated fat, which could raise cholesterol levels and heart disease risks. If you have cholesterol concerns, you may be told to avoid cheese. Irish researchers in University College Dublin and Teagasc Moorepark now think that this advice needs a rethink.

A number of scientific studies published in the last few years have called into question the current negative message about cheese as an unhealthy food. This emerging science from around the world is poking holes in the argument that cheese is detrimental to health. FHI scientists are currently conducting the largest study of its kind in Ireland to understand more about cheese and its impact on our health.

This human study is being conducted in UCD. Dr Emma Feeney, FHI UCD explains ‘Cheese is high in saturated fat, however there is something special about the matrix of cheese. The fat is found with other nutrients like calcium and protein. It is believed that this matrix of nutrients with the fat can potentially have a positive effect on our health. Our study will look at this theory in more detail’.

The idea of our diet impacting our health is a hot topic these days. With obesity and its related diseases such as heart disease, on the increase, we need to look towards prevention rather than relying on cure. The results of this study will add to the body of knowledge about cheese and health proving that the combination of nutrients in cheese has many promising health benefits.

If you’re over 50 years old and have a BMI of 25 or over, This Irish cheese study needs you….Come to the FHI stand in the Innovation Arena (Unit no. 7) in the Innovation Arena at the National PloughingChampsionships to learn more about taking part.

With almost 30 years’ experience selling cleaning products to the automotive industry, Autopia Ltd. have earned their reputation as the leading suppliers of automotive valeting and detailing products in Ireland. Autopia Ltd. supply top Irish companies in the car hire, food and transport sector to name a few who entrust them to provide top class valeting and detailing products as well as exceptional customer service.

At Autopia Ltd., only the highest quality brands such as Rupes, Kwazar, Vikan, Mothers and Tygris are chosen and they are sole distributors for Soft99 waxes and sealants and Great Lion metal polish and detail products in Ireland. The Autopia brand of products are highly concentrated and consistently meet the highest quality standards. For example, the high quality TFR goes through stringent quality control checks at three different stages of testing. All Autopia products are accredited with the internationally recognised ISO 9001 standard and are REACH and VOC compliant. MSDS sheets are available on request.

Autopia Ltd will hold a stand at this year’s National Ploughing Championships where they will showcase exclusive new brands such as Great Lion metal polish, Soft99 waxes and polishes and PoorBoys World valeting range as well as their own Autopia branded products. Visit Autopia at Block No. 3, Row No. 32, Stand No. 761 where they will be doing product demo’s, show specials on their full range of products, a draw for a hamper worth over €150 and various competitionsduring the three-day show and stay tuned to their Facebook page @AutopiaProfessionalDetailingProducts for all the latest news, events and special offers.