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Declan Byrne

Corporate Affairs Reporter

1428 Articles

About Declan

Declan covers the corporate beat: earnings seasons, mergers and acquisitions, boardroom changes and restructurings. He reads the filings so readers don't have to, and prefers the footnotes to the press release. His test for a company story is simple: what changed, for whom, and does the money agree.

Areas of Expertise

Earnings M&A corporate strategy governance

Latest Articles

SpaceX Revenue Nearly Doubles in First Public Quarter, But Subscriber Revenue Per User Falls
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SpaceX Revenue Nearly Doubles in First Public Quarter, But Subscriber Revenue Per User Falls

SpaceX's debut earnings since its June IPO show revenue nearly doubling to $7.8 billion and operating losses narrowing, ...

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Adweek Names 2026 Media Plans of the Year: Bold Bets, Real Results
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Adweek Names 2026 Media Plans of the Year: Bold Bets, Real Results

From racing Wienermobiles to a KFC-vs-AI taste test, Adweek's 2026 Media Plan of the Year winners show how platform-nati...

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Cimed CEO's Makeover Prescription for E-commerce Franchise Yeet: Know Your Customer
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Cimed CEO's Makeover Prescription for E-commerce Franchise Yeet: Know Your Customer

Cimed CEO João Adibe's mentorship of Yeet exposes why the e-commerce franchise spends R$50,000 a month on recruitment wi...

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PwC's US CEO backs consulting careers for his kids even as AI reshapes hiring
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PwC's US CEO backs consulting careers for his kids even as AI reshapes hiring

PwC is hiring fewer consultants and more data specialists as AI shifts the profession. US CEO Paul Griggs explains why h...

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Alpha Dhabi Net Profit Climbs 48% to $2.7 Billion in First Half
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Alpha Dhabi Net Profit Climbs 48% to $2.7 Billion in First Half

ADX-listed Alpha Dhabi Holding posted a 48% rise in H1 2026 net profit to AED 9.8 billion ($2.7 billion), with revenue u...

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BTMA and BGMEA Sign MoU to Launch New BITMA Machinery Exhibition in Dhaka
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BTMA and BGMEA Sign MoU to Launch New BITMA Machinery Exhibition in Dhaka

Bangladesh's two biggest textile and garment trade bodies will jointly stage the BITMA machinery expo to accelerate auto...

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Riopele Ties Growth to Faster Nearshoring for Fashion Brands
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Riopele Ties Growth to Faster Nearshoring for Fashion Brands

Portugal's Riopele is pushing its integrated garment-development model as brands demand quicker turnarounds, after posti...

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IMAX Stock Hits All-Time High After ‘The Odyssey’ Drives Record July Box Office
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IMAX Stock Hits All-Time High After ‘The Odyssey’ Drives Record July Box Office

IMAX shares topped $50 after Christopher Nolan's “The Odyssey” powered the company's biggest box-office month ever, with...

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Willie Walsh Takes Charge as IndiGo CEO With a Mandate to Go Global
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Willie Walsh Takes Charge as IndiGo CEO With a Mandate to Go Global

The former IAG and British Airways chief formally took the helm at India's biggest airline this week, tasked with intern...

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Ather Energy Reports 89% Revenue Jump as EV Demand Runs Ahead of Supply
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Ather Energy Reports 89% Revenue Jump as EV Demand Runs Ahead of Supply

Ather Energy nearly doubled quarterly revenue and swung to positive EBITDA, with pre-orders up 158% and a mass-market sc...

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Qantas in Talks to Move Up to 1,000 Jobs Offshore as AI Push Accelerates
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Qantas in Talks to Move Up to 1,000 Jobs Offshore as AI Push Accelerates

Qantas is in early talks with Accenture on Project iQ — a plan that could send up to 1,000 back-office roles offshore or...

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AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers in Talks Over Potential $400 Billion Pharma Merger
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AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers in Talks Over Potential $400 Billion Pharma Merger

Report says the two drugmakers discussed a merger that would create a $400 billion oncology powerhouse, but the talks co...

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Battery Tech and Covid Habits Revive Cycling: Meet the Listed Players
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Battery Tech and Covid Habits Revive Cycling: Meet the Listed Players

From component makers Shimano and Yamaha to frame giants Giant and Merida — a guide to the listed companies with the pur...

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Africa's Millionaire Boom Is Rewriting Wealth Management: Mobility, Succession and the Next Generation
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Africa's Millionaire Boom Is Rewriting Wealth Management: Mobility, Succession and the Next Generation

Africa's 122,500 dollar millionaires are set to grow 65% in a decade — and younger, more mobile clients are forcing weal...

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day Scores Second-Biggest Opening Weekend in Box Office History
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day Scores Second-Biggest Opening Weekend in Box Office History

The Marvel-Sony blockbuster pulled in $355M domestically and $927M worldwide in its debut, trailing only 'Avengers: Endg...

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Gym Chain TTF Enters Northern Portugal With Flagship Club in Maia
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Gym Chain TTF Enters Northern Portugal With Flagship Club in Maia

After years of consolidating in Greater Lisbon, TTF opens its first northern club in Maia — the launchpad for a national...

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Bank of Georgia Backs 19th Poti Chess Festival; Georgian Players Log 25 Wins
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Bank of Georgia Backs 19th Poti Chess Festival; Georgian Players Log 25 Wins

Bank of Georgia's backing of Poti's International Chess Festival brought close to 530 players together, with Georgian co...

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Galt & Taggart Expands Into Uzbekistan Research With New Economy Report
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Galt & Taggart Expands Into Uzbekistan Research With New Economy Report

The Georgian investment bank has published one of the few in-depth independent studies of Uzbekistan's economy, betting ...

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Small Ideas Won the 2026 World Cup for Marketers — From WhatsApp Data to Armpit Logos
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Small Ideas Won the 2026 World Cup for Marketers — From WhatsApp Data to Armpit Logos

The 2026 World Cup was a live test of creator marketing, ambush campaigns and first-party data. Unilever's 50,000-creato...

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BCC Invest: Kazakh Bond Market Is Becoming a Real Alternative to Bank Loans
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BCC Invest: Kazakh Bond Market Is Becoming a Real Alternative to Bank Loans

Kazakhstan's mid-sized companies are turning to bond issues as bank credit gets costlier; BCC Invest says it arranged 30...

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Kazakhstan's Halyk Bank Now Competes With Tech Giants for Digital Talent
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Kazakhstan's Halyk Bank Now Competes With Tech Giants for Digital Talent

Halyk Bank's executives explain why the lender's digital push put it in the same talent pool as fintechs and big tech — ...

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SCAT's 80-Fold Profit Rise Lifts Two Founders Onto Forbes Rich List
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SCAT's 80-Fold Profit Rise Lifts Two Founders Onto Forbes Rich List

SCAT's net profit jumped almost 80-fold between 2016 and 2024, lifting Vladimir Denisov and Vladimir Sytnik onto the For...

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Lufthansa's Q2 Operating Profit Slumps 56% on Jet Fuel Surge and Strikes
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Lufthansa's Q2 Operating Profit Slumps 56% on Jet Fuel Surge and Strikes

Lufthansa's adjusted operating profit fell 56% to €383m in Q2 as Middle East-driven fuel costs added €750m and strikes w...

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Vietnamese Company Pitches Transport and Agribusiness Projects to Equatorial Guinea
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Vietnamese Company Pitches Transport and Agribusiness Projects to Equatorial Guinea

Vietnam's New Atlantic International Trading Company has proposed shipping, trucking and cassava projects it says could ...

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Big Tech's Q2 Ad Dominance and the Private Equity Push Into Ad Tech
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Big Tech's Q2 Ad Dominance and the Private Equity Push Into Ad Tech

Meta and Amazon outgrew Google in Q2 advertising; Wall Street frowned on AI capex, and private equity is circling under-...

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Agency Holding Companies Are Dangling AI Sweeteners to Grow Principal Media
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Agency Holding Companies Are Dangling AI Sweeteners to Grow Principal Media

Holding companies are bundling free AI tokens and data services into principal-media deals to feed high-margin growth, w...

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Apple's India Sales Cross $10 Billion as Retail Push Takes Hold
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Apple's India Sales Cross $10 Billion as Retail Push Takes Hold

Apple's India revenue topped $10 billion in fiscal 2026 as iPhones led double-digit growth and the company widened its r...

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Shell's Q2 Profit Doubles to $9.8B as Geopolitical Turmoil Becomes a Cash Machine
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Shell's Q2 Profit Doubles to $9.8B as Geopolitical Turmoil Becomes a Cash Machine

Shell reported an adjusted $9.84B second-quarter profit, nearly double a year earlier and above forecasts, as oil and ga...

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Fuchs Shares Dip After Fire Damages Saudi Joint Venture Plant
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Fuchs Shares Dip After Fire Damages Saudi Joint Venture Plant

A fire severely damaged Fuchs Petrolub's Saudi JV plant, but the company says the financial impact is contained — shares...

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Wacker Chemie’s Q2 Profit Jump Is Flattered by One-Offs — Guidance Tells the Real Story
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Wacker Chemie’s Q2 Profit Jump Is Flattered by One-Offs — Guidance Tells the Real Story

Wacker Chemie raised its 2026 EBITDA guidance and lowered its revenue outlook. But near-€280m in special items flattered...

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