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Students given chance to learn from entrepreneurs
Local entrepreneurs are to share the secrets of their success with more than 2,000 students across Northern Ireland as part of a series of masterclasses designed to inspire young people to start their own businesses.
- Interest rates to stay at record lows
- 'Common sense' needed to sort public finances
- Top bonds withdrawn after only one month
- UK jobless could soar even in a recovery
- CBI chief: Bangers for cash should be extended
- Businesses warned over debt elimination scams
- Economic future looking brighter, says UU expert
- EU programmes could benefit Northern Ireland economy
- Mayor: Women can make a difference to economy
- Get a new job? Entrepreneurs are doing it for themselves
- Habitat for Humanity to help build energy efficient 'homes of the future'
E-book reader price slashed for launch
Amazon is cutting the price of its electronic book reader the Kindle as it prepares to launch the device in Britain, the company has announced.
Where do businesses stand with part-time employees?
Question: I am concerned that my sales are lower than forecasted. What can I do to better manage my cash flow during this slow period?
- Where you stand with strict liability in business
- Can firm use temporary staff to help it thwart strike action?
- If you are unhappy with your bank, how easy is it to change?
- If you have a good business idea don't let recession hold you back
- If workers have to retire at 65 can they claim unfair dismissal?
- Taxing issues, recovering debt and making investments work harder
- Networking, students and loan protection; it's a jungle out there
- Firms must comply with minimum wage or be left to count the cost
- It may not be home sweet home when property prices start to fall
Andrews thrive as competitors fall by wayside
GCD Technologies was established amidst the dot.com bubble in 1999. Yet, unlike many of its peers, the company has not only survived, but is doing very well.
Pockets get hit as the pound heads to parity with the euro
Cross-border shopping is becoming much more expensive for people from Northern Ireland, with the pound's steady fall against the euro.
Is a tax haven a safe haven?
IN the current circumstances, any mention of offshore investments is likely to elicit a fairly negative response from potential investors. People are still smarting from the Icelandic debacle, so fear is understandable.
- Is the time right to buy a home in Northern Ireland?
- Sorting the Settlor’s Rights
- Mix and match your pension with work
- Assurance for the family's future
- Making property fund investments work
- Using property to plan for retirement
- Inflation is the risk we all face
- Seeing the wood from the trees
- A pension for every employee
When investing in the ‘to let’ market doesn’t always pay off
With the property market still depressed, today I am going to take a run through some of the tax issues which may be important for those people who bought investment properties to let out, or perhaps to rent, and now can’t sell them.
- Offshore bank accounts – should I confess?
- Last chance to admit to your offshore income
- Huston’s Taxing Problem
- Regards over conacre land
- Tax: What costs that I can claim when working from home
- Making sense of the end of July tax bill
- Can I get tax reief on union payments?
- Making the debt collection process easier
- Saving tax by making a pension investment
Ten years of fighting hard just to get on Equality terms
As businesses across Northern Ireland take part in anti-racist workplace week campaign, Evelyn Collins, chief executive of the equality commission, talks about how they are changing life
Buoyant Stena rides out storm on crest of a wave
With the addition of a new vessel to its fleet, Stena's area director Michael McGrath says he is confident that, despite the recession, demand for the service has increased
- Jobs are scarce, so it's time to go online and make it happen
- To make a difference, put on your boots and hit the Tweet
- From the rubble of recession we have to build new homes
- There's a lot of wishful thinking in this recovery
- More than ever we should be helping vulnerable people
- Low wage or not, there's no escape from tax burden
- Shredbank is cutting up opposition in data security
- Now we need the emerging nations to start shopping
- Neelie calls the shots and she can’t be ignored
Trevor Campbell
Company: Fenix solutions
Position: Area account manager
Role:In his new role with Fenix, Trevor will have responsibility for developing and expanding the firm’s customer base, in line with company strategy
Track record: Trevor joins Fenix Solutions with many years experience in the telecoms and business equipment arenas
Car industry should speed up
It's a Friday night; you have endured a busy week in the office and are looking forward to the weekend, which enables you to do the things your work’s diary doesn’t permit Monday to Friday.
Company Snapshot: Dairy Produce Packers Ltd
Dairy Produce Packers (DPP) specialises in the preparation and packing of processed cheese products and microwaveable frozen convenience snack foods for the consumer foods industry.
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