Buy&Sell

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BuyandSell.ie
Categories Classified magazine
Frequency Weekly
First issue May 1990
Company Buyandsell.ie
Country Ireland
Language English
Website www.buyandsell.ie

BuyandSell.ie is a fully Irish owned classified ads website and magazine. Launched in 1990, The paper edition is published four times a week in the Republic of Ireland (three national editions, one Munster edition) and once a week in Northern Ireland.

The magazine has been owned by a number of non-Irish based businesses, including Loot, a UK-based magazine and Associated Newspapers who sold Buy & Sell to the current owners in 2007.[1]

B&S Ltd, the last owner of the Buy & Sell magazine was beneficially owned, by Boundary Capital plc, an Irish venture capital company, who acquired the company from Associated Newspapers for €28,000,000 in 2007.

Buy & Sell went through Examinership and Receivership in late 2009, and the assets of the business were sold to a company representing Nelson Loane, the former head of the publicly quoted Adare printing group, and his family.[2]

The new owners have said they plan to retain the current workforce of 55 with potential for new job creation in the online business.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Associated to offload 'Buy and Sell'". Irish Independent. 13 May 2007. Retrieved 2012-05-03.
  2. ↑ "Examiner appointed to 'Buy & Sell' over €18.3m debt". Irish Times. 27 June 2009. Retrieved 2012-05-03.
  3. ↑ "Buy & Sell sale confirmed by receiver - RTÉ News". Rte.ie. 2009-10-05. Retrieved 2012-05-03.

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