Balmoral Show: Day One in Pictures
The Balmoral Show has kicked off at its new home at the Maze prison site outside Lisburn.
A company which makes trailers for the transport of motorsport vehicles is hoping to sell its products to global markets.
NORTHERN Ireland's construction firms should continue to look to emerging markets for opportunities, the head of a professional organisation said.
THOMAS Cook took another step towards calmer waters be announcing a £425m fundraising with shareholders in a bid to cut debt.
A local independent specialist tour operator has launched a new dedicated air holiday division.
Not actually Balmoral in Belfast – that's the smell of leafy streets and manicured lawns – but the new, vast Maze site where the show of the same name was in full swing.
THE UK arm of internet shopping giant Amazon paid corporation tax of just £2.4m last year despite sales of £4.2bn.
Christopher McCartan has been appointed sales executive at Mercury Security Management.
Diana Armstrong has been appointed western area consultant at David Scott Tiles.
Suzi Stewart has joined Lucas Love Recruitment as principal IT specialist.
The Deluxe Group, based in Portadown is a bespoke joinery firm which specialises in luxury fit out.
Donal Doherty is a Londonderry photographer specialising in wedding, lifestyle and portrait photography.
One of Northern Ireland’s most successful IT software and services companies, Equiniti ICS, has expanded its workforce with the support of Invest Northern Ireland’s Jobs Fund.
Manderley Food Group is now an English registered company with headquarters in Corby. The main shareholders are the Hutchinson family in Tandragee.
Liberty Information Technology is a subsidiary of the Boston (USA) based financial services group, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, and describes its activities as software development and associated services for the wider group. It has been in business in Northern Ireland since 1996.
Old Bushmills Distillery is engaged in distilling, maturation, blending, marketing and selling of Irish whiskey. The company, based in Bushmills village, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Diageo Group.
Northern Ireland's beaches were the most littered in the UK last year, a survey showed.
Following a fantastic year of golf for Northern Ireland with the sell-out Irish Open and the achievements of local heroes Rory McIlroy, Graeme McDowell and Darren Clarke, ESPN Brazil visited Northern Ireland to get to get first-hand experience of golfing in the province.
The tourism industry is set to hear the Canadian perspective on growing a successful and dynamic tourism sector at an industry wide conference on Tuesday 5th March at the La Mon Hotel and Country Club, Belfast.
In business it’s all about productivity. You know that your business’s success largely depends on the performance of your employees.
The Equality Commission for NI and Employers for Disability NI have come together to organise a half day seminar at Malone House, Belfast, to mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
Question: I own a boutique retail outlet. How important is it for me to have a mobile strategy?
A long, long time ago, I wrote a book called Community Enterprise, Business Planning for the Social Economy. (It comes to mind now because I was at the Ulster Bank Business Achievers final last week in Belfast and talked to some great social enterprises.)
The Mac – or the Metropolitan Arts Centre, to give it the full title – has just celebrated its first birthday. So, too, has the Canteen at the Mac. But while the Mac is a charity, the Canteen is an independent commercial business, run by JRS Catering.
THE Claro Skin Clinic in Dundonald offers a service that is unique in Northern Ireland, at which people worried about moles can have an expert examination and assessment without the need for a GP referral.
Just when we thought the green shoots of recovery had wilted, been clamped in a silo and turned to silage, the one and only Mervyn King steps forward to sprinkle his magic dust over the UK economy.
You can tell it's going to be a big announcement when the combined journalist, security and civil servant gathering generates something of a party atmosphere.
Northern Ireland farmers produce a large supply of milk. Last year 1.95bn litres came from the farms and passed down the marketing chain.
You couldn't love them if you reared them. That's certainly the first impression given by the bunch of Lord Sugar mini-mes which drooled at the lap of the architect of the Amstrad empire in this week's Apprentice show.
There's nothing like stock markets to put you in your place.
The news of Alex Ferguson's departure came as a huge shock. His track record as a manager was both remarkable and unparalleled.