In December, Horizon Therapeutics, a Dublin-headquartered rare disease drug specialist, agreed a deal for $28.3 billion, including debt, that will see it acquired by US biotech Amgen. It was the biggest pharma deal of the year and the fifth largest across all sectors.
For Local Enterprise of the Year, tech company Provizio, spirits maker Teeling Whiskey, AI group HoloToyz, and ATA have been shortlisted. It was another year of growth for Teeling Whiskey, which celebrated its 10th birthday in 2022 and bounced back from Covid restrictions. The company was expecting to post revenue of €23 million for the year, up from just under €20 million in 2021, and to sell about 1.5 million bottles of the spirit, up from 1.35 million in the previous year and double the output of five years previously.