Kerry Group will release its full year results for 2025 on Tuesday. Photo: Domnick Walsh
Enrico Letta
Irish business activity this week features a mixture of full-year corporate results for 2025, fresh data on inflation and the labour market, and updates on housing, construction and travel.
The former Italian prime minister Enrico Letta will give a speech at The Helix in Dublin City University on Monday. Mr Letta was the author of a 2024 report on the future of the EU internal market for the European Commission, which examined how trade, services and investment move across member states.
No doubt this subject will be covered in his speech on Monday, an event that will be of interest to policymakers and business groups given that its focus is on how the single market operates.
Enrico Letta
Several Irish-linked firms are reporting results for their fiscal year 2025. Kerry Group goes first on Tuesday. The food-ingredients supplier sells to global consumer brands, so its annual figures often give a snapshot of demand, pricing and cost pressures across the food and beverage sector.
On Wednesday, building materials group CRH posts its full-year 2025 results, which will provide an update on construction and infrastructure activity in its main markets. The same day, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) releases its Residential Property Price Index for December, showing how house prices finished the year and providing an up-to-date read on the housing market. Figures on arrivals from Ukraine during 2025 are also due.
On Thursday, the CSO publishes the Consumer Price Index for January, tracking changes in everyday costs, and it will also produce the Labour Force Survey for the final quarter of 2025, which sets out employment and unemployment levels.
The Central Bank of Ireland has its own statistical releases scheduled, including on securities issues faced across last month, and a template on international reserves for the same period. On Wednesday its governor, Gabriel Makhlouf, will be at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford.
Company reporting continues on Thursday with an update from the airline group Air France-KLM, and Irish Residential Properties REIT will publish its full-year results. On Friday, it’s the turn of insulation manufacturer Kingspan, which will give a further indication of activity in housing and commercial building.
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