The Bump Boutique Co Galway

The Baby Store Co Carlow

Roche’s Pharmacy Rathmines

McCabes Pharmacy:
Pavilions, Swords-
Dundrum-
Blanch-
Clarehall-
City west
Carroll Village Dundalk,
Gory
Malahide Sc
Yellow walls
Ballymun
Sandydford
Limerick

Annmarie Durkin

Full the full article see….
http://www.tribune.ie/article/2011/jan/16/sister-act/?q=shasta

Higher Ground Re visited
Peter Young looks back at four of the businesses featured in series two of RTE¨’s Higher Ground to see just how they are getting on. Next week, he will check in on the remaining businesses.

Shasta baby products
There have been lots of twists and turns since the programme went out. I have been working with a number of companies and I have done a lot of further product development and carried out more extensive targeted market research. I had to produce a 90-second animation for one company to clearly explain and demonstrate how the product operates.

http://www.farmersjournal.ie/site/farming.php?newsid=12235

National Womens Enterprise Day

The National Women’s Enterprise Day aims to inspire, activate and assist women across Ireland in running their own business.

The National Women’s Enterprise Day took place on the 18th and 19th November 2010 at the Limerick Strand Hotel. Ann Marie Durkin CEO Shasta was on of the case studies/speakers at this event.

Case Study / Speakers at the National Womens Enterprise Day in Strand Hotel Limerick Nov 2010 Ann Marie Durkin, Donna Daly Blyth, Alison Boardman and Alison Ritchie

Case Studies/ Speakers:
The following case studies will be interesting and insightful at the conference:
Alison Boardman, Unique Voice Language Institute
Alison Ritchie, Polar Ice
Ann Marie Durkin, Shasta
Donna Daly Blyth, Donna’s Dance Studio
Jennifer Ryan, Pónaire Coffee

For must information click on the link below which will take you to National Womens Enterprise Day website: http://www.nwed.ie/about-the-event/case-studies-_-speakers

Baby bottle manufacturers urged to remove chemical
Friday, November 26, 2010 – 02:02 PM

Baby bottle manufacturers were urged today to act now to remove from their products a potentially dangerous chemical which will be outlawed from next June.

The European Commission ban, endorsed by EU food safety experts, will remove Bisphenol A from plastic infant feeding bottles.

The decision follows months of talks with manufacturers, EU governments and experts.

Labour leader in the European Parliament Glenis Willmott urged the industry not to wait until the deadline for applying the new rule.

She said today: “There is no reason to continue using this chemical – most manufacturers have already phased it out, and safe substitutes are available. France, Denmark, Canada, Australia and some US states already have bans in place.”

“The Commission has been clear that it will introduce a ban as quickly as possible, but baby bottle manufacturers should act now to remove this potentially harmful chemical from their products immediately.”

MEPs called for restrictions on Bisphenol A last June. The substance is used in many clear hard plastics, but evidence has been growing that the chemical, an endocrine disrupter, can interfere with infant development and can be passed to babies when they drink from bottles made using the chemical.

Monique Goyens, director general of BEUC, the European Consumers’ Organisation, said the ban was an important signal to consumers.

“We hope this endocrine disrupter will soon be forbidden in all consumer products, and we urge the EU to make progress on the persistent issue of ’chemical cocktails’ in products.”

ANEC, the European Consumer Voice in Standardisation, welcomes the EU decision to ban Bisphenol A from baby bottles.

Stephen Russell, secretary-general of ANEC, said: “We will monitor the implementation of the ban and urge the Commission to resource joint market surveillance action among member states to strengthen enforcement in order to help ensure that no baby bottles containing Bisphenol A remain on the European market after 1 June 2011.”

Governments will have to ban the making of polycarbonate infant feeding bottles containing BPA from March 1 next year, with a complete ban on their marketing or import into the EU from June 1.

European health and consumer commissioner John Dalli said: “This is good news for European consumers. There were areas of uncertainty, deriving from new studies, which showed that BPA might have an effect on the development, immune response or tumour promotion. Now European parents can be sure that as of mid-2011 plastic infant feeding bottles will not include BPA.”

Read more:
http://www.examiner.ie/breakingnews/world/baby-bottle-manufacturers-urged-to-remove-chemical-483379.html#ixzz1EnpB28tD

Going for Growth Brochure

The following case studies will be interesting and insightful at the conference:

Alison Boardman, Unique Voice Language Institute

Alison Ritchie, Polar Ice

Ann Marie Durkin, Shasta

Donna Daly Blyth, Donna’s Dance Studio

Jennifer Ryan, Pónaire Coffee