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Northern Ireland's Top 100 Companies 2009

Top 100 Companies

Overcoming challenges - name of the game

Welcome to the Belfast Telegraph Northern Ireland’s Top 100 Companies magazine, the definitive annual guide to the province’s biggest companies.

We’re for business in Northern Ireland

Bank of Scotland (Ireland) is again pleased to be associated with the Belfast Telegraph Northern Ireland’s Top 100 Companies.

Reaching the top and staying there

What does it take to make it into the Top 100 list? The answer must include vision, hard work, innovation, quality goods and services, customer focus and strong management.

Blue skies, but clouds gathering

The performance of the Top 100 companies in 2008 has revealed many contrasting features.

Key performance indicators improve

The Top 100 companies, in mid-2008, were reporting an improving economy.

A mixed bag for the retail sector

This time last year the retail sector was still booming, with shoppers celebrating the recent openings of Victoria Square and Ikea.

Companies 1-10

2008	Company	Employment	Turnover	Profit
1	Resource	15,334	£131M	£3.1M
2	Tesco	9,224	£1,025M (est)	N/A
3	Moy Park	6,723	£651.6M	£-14.8m
4	Quinn Group	6,234	£1,840M	£-370m
5	Bombardier	4,992	£473M	£66.2m
6	Asda (in NI)	4,300	£380M (est)	N/A
7	Royal Mail Group	4,208	£186M (est)	N/A
8	Translink	4,199	£175.4M	£3.5M
9	Four Seasons Healthcare	3,500	£82.8M	N/A
10	Dunnes Stores	3,106	£211M	£34.3M
11	FG Wilsons	3,073	£793.5M	£30.9M
12	Sainsburys	2,700	£340M (est)	N/A
13	Danubia	2,600	£460M	N/A
14	Ulster Bank	2,599	N/A	£117M
15	BT (in NI)	2,556	£411M	N/A
16	John Henderson	2,397	£457M	£10.8M
17	Marks and Spencer	2,221	N/A	N/A
18	Almac Group	2,190	£167.3M	N/A
19	HBOS	2,008	N/A	N/A
20	Alliance Boots	1,903	N/A	N/A
21	Golf Holdings	1,836	£194.9M	£11.6M
22	First Trust Bank	1,700	N/A	£33M
23	Northern Bank	1,682	N/A	£6.9M
24	Ballyvesey Holdings	1,622	£256.8M	£2M
25	Viridian	1,587	£1449.5M	£51.1M
26	Rotary Group	1,502	£211.7M	£10.1M
27	O'Kane Group	1,464	£131.2M	£1.3M
28	Next	1,444	N/A	N/A
29	HCL BPO Services NI	1,431	£28.8M	£1.4M
30	Allstate NI	1,415	£47.7M	£-9.5M
31	Seagate Technology	1,409	£105.3M	£7.1M
32	Lagan Group	1,400	£433M	£34M
33	Fane Valley	1,377	£270.1M	£3.5M
34	Norbrook Group	1,347	£116.6M	£4.3M
35	Bank of Ireland	1,300	N/A	£330M
36	B&Q	1,297	N/A	N/A
37	B/E Aerospace	1,295	£258.9M	£26M
38	Charles Hurst	1,092	£402.5M	£7.1M
39	Northstone NI	1,039	£268.8M	£20.3M
40	Isaac Agnew	1,035	£388.7M	£11.4M
41	Michelin	1,014	£250M	N/A
42	Wright Group	983	£125.9M	£4.3M
43	UTV Media	950	£120.3M	£15.7M
44	Tayto	948	£75M	£1.4M
45	Hastings Hotel Group	940	£40M	£1.1M
46	SHS Group	897	£400.1M	£27.3M
47	Grafton Recruitment	889	£127.6M	£2.4M
48	Northgate Managed Svcs	877	£123.2M	£7M
49	gem	872	£17.5M	£1.2M
50	Gallagher	845	N/A	N/A
51	PriceWaterhouseCoopers	833	N/A	N/A
52	Brett Martin Holdings	802	£112.4M	£6.9M
53	Kerry Group (NI)	782	£164.7M	£11.1
54	United Dairy Farmers	780	£366.2M	£1.9M
55	John Graham Holdings	778	£218.2M	£1.5M
56	Acheson and Glover	749	£57.2M	£-3.2M
57	Schrader Electronics	745	£105.5M	£8.4M
58	Musgrave Group	739	£467.8M	£-0.3M
59	Foyle Food Group	737	£181M	£4.7M
60	Randox Labratories	736	£46.5M	£3.6M
61	Nacco Materials Handling	711	£171M	N/A
62	Ulster Carpets	706	£56.4M	£7.2M
63	Coca Cola HBC	678	£171.7M	£10.4M
64	Retlan Manufacturing	666	£104.4M	£4M
65	Camden Group	641	£55.2M	£4.8M
66	Botanic Inns	580	£21M	£0.6M
67	Glen Electric (in NI)	580	N/A	N/A
68	Balcas	552	£71.6M	£2.1M
69	Haldane Shiells Group	541	£102.3M	£3.8M
70	Patton Group	535	£185M	£2.5M
71	Cemex NI	533	£53.6M	£13M
72	Montupet UK	530	£60.6M	£4.8M
73	Henry Group	513	£94.2M	£1.9M
74	Thales Air Defence	510	£96.4M	£17.5M
75	Nortel (NI)	500	£500M	N/A
76	AVX	491	£91.4M	N/A
77	Creagh Concrete Products	485	£59.7M	£-0.2M
78	Lindsay Cars	439	£120.1M	£-0.2M
79	Diageo (NI)	426	£273.1M	£26.6M
80	Independent News and Media (NI)	414	N/A	N/A
81	Donnelly Bros Garages	412	£196.9M	£3M
82	MacNaughton Blair	409	£73.5M	£5.4M
83	McLaughlin and Harvey	401	£207.1M	£7.2M
84	Powerscreen International	400	£135.3M	£19.6M
85	Mivan	380	£78M	£5.5M
86	Howden UK	378	£93.1M	£14.8M
87	Hilton Meats	313	£190.1M	£6.2M
88	W&R Barnett	284	£122.3M	£12M
89	Sangers	278	£188M	£1.7M
90	McAleer and Rushe	236	£73.8M	£-3.3M
91	Belfast International Airport	197	£36.1M	£8.5M
92	Phoenix Natural Gas	195	£99.1M	£10.9M
93	Ards Holdings	192	£137.3M	£4.6M
94	BHH	161	£112.4M	£3.5M
95	DCC Energy	158	£167.4M	£1.8M
96	Clearway Holdings	151	£132.5M	£20M
97	Progressive Building Society	143	N/A	£2.7M
98	Belfast Harbour Commissioners	134	£31.2M	£22.1M
99	AES (NI)	129	£164.9M	£19.6M
100	Premier Power	124	£227.7M	£31M