Center Parcs takes in €1.86m a week at Longford resort as revenues rise
Profits fall as company refinanced €165m debt and agreed a further €100m facility, raising finance costs to €20.2m from €7.2m
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A week in Center Parcs in Longford: Standing in the forest, you feel the money draining gently out of your bank account
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Center Parcs in Longford more than doubles profits to €20m
Holiday resort had average weekly revenues of €1.7m in the year to April 20th
Owner of Center Parcs chain of resorts races to seal sale
Advisers to Brookfield try to fashion consortium from remaining bidders
Sale of Center Parcs ‘will not hit’ jobs or expansion plans in Longford
Local representatives are confident the business will be sold as a going concern after phenomenal success in region
Center Parcs put up for sale and may fetch close to €6bn
Canadian group seeks as much as €5.75 billion in bet group will prove resilient during downturn
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Center Parcs’ €100m Longford expansion faces objections due to infrastructure concerns
Roads and water supply under pressure from plan for 198 new lodges, submissions say
Center Parcs’ Longford resort hits revenues of €1.1m a week
Group recovers from Covid shutdown with profits rebounding to €8.1m from loss of €18.2m in previous year
Center Parcs got €8.6m in State aid as pandemic slashed revenues
Longford holiday village is now trading strongly and finalising plans for €85m expansion
‘We would go back in a heartbeat’: Readers share their best family holidays
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Center Parcs predicts 90% occupancy in Longford Forest
Complex with 500 lodges opens to the public on Monday
Center Parcs set to go wild at ‘subtropical’ Longford resort
UK holiday operator plans to open its €233m Longford Forest park in late August
Center Parcs to host open days for those interested in 1,000 jobs at Longford park
Chief executive Martin Dalby says it’s ‘local jobs for local people’ at €233m park, which is due to open next year
Profits at Barclays’ Irish business fall 18% in 2017 to €22.5m
Low interest rates and €2.5m fall in foreign exchange and trading earnings hit income
Center Parcs Longford holiday village gets €165m in funding
Forest resort may employ about 1,000 once completed and 750 during construction
Irish PR firms spin their way to healthy profits
Newly filed accounts from some of Ireland’s biggest firms show revenues on the rise
Center Parcs to bring gas pipeline to Longford
Holiday company signs €3 million deal with Gas Networks Ireland
Center Parcs awards first major contract for Longford village
Limerick-based Roadbridge gets infrastructure contract for €233m Irish holiday project
Center Parcs granted permission for Longford holiday village
An Bord Pleanála approves plans for €232m park, with number of conditions
€232m Center Parcs resort in Longford granted planning
Major tourism development will seek to employ up to 1,000
Center Parcs plans lodged for €233m Longford holiday village
Leisure group claims scheme opening in 2019 will create 1,000 jobs and add 4% to local economy
Center Parcs unveils plans for Longford Forest
Adventure village to be biggest tourism development in the history of the State
Center Parcs to unveil model for €200m Longford site
Leisure giant set to seek planning permission for 375-acre facility in Ballymahon
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