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Entrepreneur Kennelly an example to us all

Recession or no recession, budding entrepreneurs are still coming up with weird and wonderful ideas and turning them into viable business projects.
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Awards should not forget their station

Monday, 24 November 2008

Anyone looking for a sure fire way to avoid the worst effects of the recession could do worse than take up a new career as a sideboard maker.
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Jolly evening at Property Awards despite economic gloom

Monday, 17 November 2008

Given the state of the market, one might have been forgiven for assuming that the property sector did not have much to celebrate these days.
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Recession has its plus points

Monday, 10 November 2008

Although the number crunchers up at Netherleigh have yet to confirm it, there seems little doubt that Ulster Bank’s assessment of the Northern Ireland economy is correct. We are in recession and things are set to get worse, despite last week’s unexpectedly severe cut in interest rates.
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Credit crunch can’t gag the bank jokers

Monday, 3 November 2008

With rising unemployment, growing threats of redundancies and prices in the shops generally going north, the economic situation is no laughing matter.
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Less is definitely more for speeches

Monday, 27 October 2008

It’s that time of year again when the clocks have gone back, the evenings are shortening and good old Hallowe’en is here.
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Talking Shop: No Short measures at big birthday bash

Monday, 20 October 2008

Horace, Eustace and Oswald Short would surely have been more than a little surprised had they turned up at the Waterfront Hall last week.
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Phraseology may be wrong but downward economic spiral is the same

Monday, 13 October 2008

As white knuckle rides go, current events in the financial and economic worlds must rival anything that Barry’s Amusements up in Portrush can offer.
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Putting crisis into perspective

Monday, 29 September 2008

“The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
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McIldoon should relish energy price review role

Monday, 22 September 2008

Few people can be better qualified than Douglas McIldoon to pick over the entrails of the recent NIE Energy price review.
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Masterly tactics used by local media-savvy energy companies

Sunday, 14 September 2008

Anyone wanting a textbook example of how to break bad news could do worse than follow the example set by our beloved energy companies.
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New dogs, it’s an old trick

Monday, 25 August 2008

As traditional as floods in August are the ever more resourceful attempts by the PR industry to capitalise on the “silly season”.
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Translink chief on right track

Monday, 4 August 2008

Catherine Mason, the new boss of Translink, was certainly on the right lines when she made tracks for Whitehead last week.
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Traffic jams? Let’s not go down that road

Monday, 28 July 2008

Northern Ireland may be open for business, as Arlene Foster never tires of telling us, but sadly the same cannot be said of Belfast city centre.
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Danish are probably the best lookers in the world

Monday, 21 July 2008

A trip to Copenhagen has given Talking Shop food for thought — and a determination to cut down on pastry.
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Paying lip service to tide us through the credit crunch

Monday, 21 July 2008

All the talk of a credit crunch gets a body down.
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Strictly business for Sir Alex

Monday, 7 July 2008

Even football managers need a break now and then and so it was that Sir Alex Ferguson found himself in Belfast last week.
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Savings resolution is wishful thinking

Monday, 14 January 2008

New Year resolutions always seem like a good idea at the time but by the second week of January even the most determined can find the going a little tough.
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InterTradeIreland’s Seedcorn Awards

  • Anthony Kieran (centre) and Shane Meehan (right) from Media Lightbox. Winners of InterTradeIreland's Seedcorn Business Competition 08 Emerging Company Media Lightbox
  • Winners of  InterTradeIreland's Seedcorn Business Competition 08 Emerging International Company, Mcor Technologies with EquityNetwork chairman Dr Gerard O'Hare
  • InterTradeIreland's Seedcorn Business Competition 08 winners Mcor Technologies and Media Lightbox pictured with Trade & Commerce Minister John McGuinness TD.  With the Minister are Shane Meehan (left) of Media Lightbox and Conor MacCormack of Mcor.

Winners from the 2008 Business Competition

In pictures: Doing the business

  • Janine Brown (Apex Clinic) with Sam and Patricia Goldblatt at  The Apex Clinic's 10th Anniversary celebrations
  • Paul Doherty, Managing Director of Urban Art with Des Gartland, Manager of Invest NI's North West Regional Office.
  • Claire & Damien Heffernan at the opening night of Claudio Viscardi's new exhibition at Gormley's Fine Art Gallery.

Cream of the crop in the business world

Belfast Telegraph Property Awards

  • Henry Elvin (left) of Ulster Bank congratulates Property Personality of the Year Chris Carvill at the Belfast Telegraph Northern Ireland Property Awards
  • Among the 500 guests at last night?s awards in the Ramada Hotel were, from left, Alan Wilton of Comtec, Brigid Daly of McAleer & Rushe, Dawn Dunwoody of Comtec and Nick Rose of RHM Commercial
  • Maurice Grey of Halifax, Emma McCracken from Keppie Design and Adam Robinson of WH Stephens

Photos from the ceremony in Belfast

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Get going now ... there’s a major crisis to tackle

The Northern Ireland Executive is preparing its strategy to tackle the on-coming economic crisis.

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View From Dublin: Separate visions - reform the civil service and slice budget

Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan hit two very large nails on the head when he launched the latest initiative to make the public service more efficient and cost-effective.

Weekend magazine launch

  • Pictured at the launch of the Belfast Telegraph Weekend party at House of Frazer are from left to right:  Laura McManus, Chris Love and Cathy Martin.
  • Pamela McGookin (Belfast Telegraph), Gary Flynn (Brand Manager Corona) and Eimear Parke (Victoria Square).
  • Martina Magee (Spirit), Eimear Parke (Victoria Square) and Sally Smyth ((Victoria Square).

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CIM MARKETING AWARDS 2008

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  • Joanne Harvey and Lauren Douglas from Hastings Hotels at the Chartered Institute of Marketing Awards 2008 at the Europa Hotel, Belfast

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