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Small Business Can
Business duo with elevated ambitions
Elevated Aspects is a new business, but its owners — Andrew and Samantha
Leonard — have a successful commercial track record.
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Sarah B Events company is dressing for further success
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Sarah B Events started out in 2002 from a happy chance — Sarah B was asked to
dress the marquee for the wedding of the daughter of Albert Reynolds, the
former Irish Taoiseach.
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Growing his own way, as McNally empire expands
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
From a small beginning in 1999, John McNally's business has risen far.
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Pressure on costs can open opportunities to improve your business
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
In the current economic circumstances, pricing is an issue for a lot of
companies and this has been evident in some of the discussion on www.smallbusinesscan.com.
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Quick-thinking Darren cleans up with new idea amid sales slump
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Innovation and flexibility are important principles in running any business,
no matter how small.
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A horse riding product racing ahead of its rivals
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Wendy McCaughan came up with a simple yet obviously sensible idea back in 2004
— to use the expertise developed to protect racing motorcyclists to provide
similarly effective protection for horse riders.
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The caring hand of serial entrepreneur is rewarded
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Rosemary Armstrong can be described as a serial entrepreneur. Since the late
1970s Rosemary has been starting care homes, running them and then very
successfully selling them to move on to new care projects.
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Lighthouse guides on stormy sea of energy-saving
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
The move to a lower carbon economy means that companies have to re-evaluate
the way they do business. It also creates new commercial opportunities.
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Grand designs the norm for JTPY
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
There is no more fitting a place to locate a showroom for a professional interior design practice that services clients with taste than Stormont Gate House.
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Sign It sign off on expansion of family business
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Many small firms begin trading from their garages, aspiring to move up into
larger premises as they expand. This is exactly what Sign it Design has
achieved.
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Recession means firms must think up new ideas
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
What has perhaps struck me most about the many discussions between firms on
www.smallbusinesscan.com in recent times is more what isn’t there than what
is.
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Companies are banking on ShredBank for data security
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Businesses that have grown during the recession are few. One of the success
stories is ShredBank — a Belfast-based mobile confidential shredding
service.
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Andrews thrive as competitors fall by wayside
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
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.
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Bad times can also mean opportunity for the lucky few
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Few businesses just three years old already employ over 50 people and expect
turnover next year to top £4m. But that is the achievement of one of
Belfast's more recent arrivals, Acityabode.
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Fusion’s pioneering work to discover therapeutic drugs is proving lucrative
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Laboratories that can develop therapies for cancers and other critical
illnesses are in strong demand, commanding high prices from the major drug
companies.
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Willow’s a hot option for heating
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Ever wondered what keeps the First Minister and the Deputy First Minister warm
in their Stormont offices? The answer, surprisingly, is willow.
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Carrick shoemaker to market brogues in US
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
A Carrickfergus shoemaker is reclaiming the Irish brogue in a plan to export
high quality shoes to the US.
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Speeding work up
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
As any user of the internet knows, slow data transfer speeds are the bane of
productivity. It is the same for major corporations. Awareness of the
problem — and the solutions — has driven the rapid growth of Replify.
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Surviving the crunch
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
The credit crunch and global recession was bad news for most businesses — but
not for Causeway Data Communications. With property values in meltdown,
there is a good profit to be had for a company producing software that
provides accurate, but affordable, property valuations.
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Enjoying the sweet, sweet taste of success
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Making a virtue out of a vice sounds like an excellent way of running your own
business. And this has been true for Karen Baxter and Michael Murray,
founders, owners and managers of Baxter Murray Creative Chocolate.
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Patient technology is out of this world
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Remote monitoring of ill patients is one of the great business growth
opportunities of the early 21st Century. It is a sector in which a Belfast
company has established itself as a market leader.
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