E168 That Great Business Show Winner Highly Commended Award, Business Podcast, Irish Podcast AwardsPresenter Conall O Morain talks to three more great businessesPolar Ice Tech - CEO Damien McDonnell and GM Mairead O'Donnell explain all about their business-to-business 'ice' cleaning company. They're hyper efficient, holding their management meetings in the car as they travel. A great tip they have to expand into Northern Ireland was to use Intertrade Ireland for lead generation.OneSonic - engineer and former professional musician David Cawley is founder of Ireland's only audio tech brand, OneSonic, made in China, sold from Finglas, Ireland. He has big ambitions for his brand, expanding into the US, so he's raising €5m in funds from Crowdcube as well as from VCs and hopes to tap into the Irish diaspora in the US to get traction in that vast market.Parch, the no-booze booze, based in the US, co-founded by Ila Byrne, former Diageo 'head of ideation', now shipping across the US. She's one the 'Women Running the Liquor World' according to Forbes. She gives us a particularly interesting factoid about the Japanese drinks market where the government is actively trying to grow consumption. She has just closed her 'friends and family' funding around with more to come in 2024.Unfortunately, she doesn't see a huge opportunity for her brand in her native Ireland.With thanks to Daft.ieFind all episodes at www.ThatGreatBusinessShow.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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