History

In 1976 Jim Flavin founded Development Capital Corporation as a venture capital company. By the late eighties, DCC had minority shareholdings in a broad range of companies.

In 1990, following a fundamental reassessment of its future development strategy, DCC decided to become an industrial and commercial holding/management group. To this end, DCC acquired a majority interest or outright control of many of its venture capital investments in selected areas.

By 1994, DCC had sufficiently evolved into an industrial holding company to seek a listing on the Irish and London stock exchanges. Since that time, DCC has continued to evolve and moved to a listing, under business support services, following its focus on procurement, sales, marketing and distribution businesses and other business support services.