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Divine intervention ? GCD director, Andrew Cuthbert, who develops software for churches

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.
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Inside Small Business Can

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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New discoveries ? Discussing the funding injection are (from left) Fusion Antibodies? Simon Douglas, CEO, and Paul Kerr and Ursula Lindsay director Northern Ireland Science Park's halo network

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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Clear growth ? showing off their willow tree based bio energy fuel are (from left) Dr John Gilliland and Tom Brennan of Rural Generation with Des Gartland, InvestNI

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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Kevin Donaghy, chief executive of Replify, started the company only two years ago but is already partnering organisations such as HP and Dell

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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Michael Caulfield and a adhesive sensor

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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Eurozone SMEs feeling the strain

Tuesday, 22 September 2009

Credit has become even tighter for small-and medium-sized companies in the euro zone, according to a new European Central Bank (ECB) survey published yesterday.
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The scented version of  Denman's ionic hair brush

Bangor firm develops scented hair brush

Tuesday, 15 September 2009

County Down company Denman International has invented the world's first scented hair brush.
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The tidal turbine at Strangford Lough, Co. Down

Tidal energy firm wins recognition

Friday, 11 September 2009

The team behind the tidal turbine in Strangford Lough has been ranked as the world’s leading tidal power company on a 100-strong hotlist of green technology pioneers.
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A toast to O’Toole’s as Armagh pub wins title

Wednesday, 9 September 2009

A Co Armagh pub has raised the bar after securing the accolade of Northern Ireland Pub of the Year.
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 Mark Hutchinson, managing director of Hutchinson Engineering (left), with Des Gartland, Invest Northern Ireland's North West Regional Office Manager Aaron McCracken

Kilrea firm sets sights on export markets

Tuesday, 8 September 2009

A North West company has engineered funding from Invest Northern Ireland as part of a £100,000 investment to enable it to target export markets.
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What is Small Business Can?

Thursday, 3 September 2009

The aim of smallbusinesscan is to generate growth for business and create a new beginning for the economy.
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Geoff Baird from Lir-Med, where the company approach is to innovate and take the initiative

Starting small ... but with eyes on big time

Tuesday, 25 August 2009

Small businesses and entrepreneurs are coming together on www.smallbusinesscan.com. Paul Gosling reports on the online network for SMEs
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John Kennedy: iPhone application

The sky’s the limit if you do it for the Craic

Tuesday, 25 August 2009

A business called Craic Design could only be Irish. It is the idea of John Kennedy, who went to school in Bangor and now spends much of his time commuting between Belfast and Dublin.
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Animal feeding frenzy

Tuesday, 25 August 2009

Ever noticed how difficult it is for dogs and cats to eat from their feeding bowls?
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Jude Torley, Unicorn co-founder

Saving energy is the way to earn money

Tuesday, 25 August 2009

Changing times need new approaches to markets and products. That is a lesson that has been learnt and applied well by Unicorn Inter Ltd.
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In pictures: Doing the business

  • Christmas appeal for children launched
Business in the Community?s Cares programme has launched its Cares At Christmas appeal with charity Action for Children to help companies and individuals make a difference to vulnerable youngsters. From left to right are Sam Davidson, human resources director at sponsors Henderson Group, Maureen Taggart, chair of Cares Leadership Team and Louise Ward-Hunter, strategic director of Action for Children. To register interest in the appeal, email caresni@bitcni.org.uk
  • The outstanding global performance of Northern Ireland accountancy students has been recognised at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Awards in Belfast. Not only did three local students take top place in Ireland but there were also three performances in ACCA?s global top ten and a further five in the top 20. Hazel Bradbury joined Keith McManus, president of the ACCA?s Ulster Branch to celebrate coming 8th out of 24,000 global participants and first in Ireland in the audit assurance exam.
  • Revamped Stena vessel ship-shape for Scotland voyage
Former Miss Northern Ireland Judith Wilson puts the finishing touches to the Stena Navigator to ensure it?s in ship-shape condition for its first voyage since its return. The upgraded Stena Line ship sets sail from Belfast to Stranraer tomorrow. The vessel, which caters for both passenger and freight traffic and has a capacity of up to 1,500 passengers and up to 280 cars or 50 lorries, means the ferry company now offers up to 14 crossings on the route each day. The addition of the Navigator and a £2m upgrade programme, which has been carried out in Belfast Port over the past month, represents a total investment in the route of over £6m

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