Northern Ireland’s Top 50 Employers 2018

The Belfast Telegraph Top 100 Companies 2018 in association with Arthur Cox has been published.
This year we also list our Top 50 biggest employers, including supermarkets Asda and Sainsbury’s.
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This time next year, their merger is likely to have gone ahead in a big shake-up for thousands of Northern Ireland supermarket employees.
Position | Name | Business activity | 2016 | 2015 | Change |
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1 | Tesco | Retailing | 9,634 | 10,202 | -568 |
2 | Bombardier Shorts | Aerospace man | 4,778 | 4,882 | -104 |
3 | Moy Park | Poultry proc. | 4,593 | 4,476 | 117 |
4 | Asda Stores | Retailing | 3,911 | 4,268 | -357 |
5 | Four Seasons | Nursing homes | 3,839 | 4,204 | -365 |
6 | Noonan Services | Support services | 3,600 | 3,353 | 247 |
7 | Teleperformance | Call centres | 2,827 | 2,920 | -93 |
8 | John Henderson | Retail | 2,773 | 2,536 | 237 |
9 | J.Sainsbury | Retail | 2,577 | 2,522 | 55 |
10 | BT (NI) | Telecoms | 2,529 | 2,498 | 31 |
11 | Marks & Spencer | Retail | 2,467 | 2,550 | -83 |
12 | Ulster Bank | Bank | 2,302 | 2,247 | 55 |
13 | Convergys | Call centre | 2,269 | 435 | 1,834 |
14 | Allstate (NI) | Info processor | 2,160 | 2,267 | -107 |
15 | Boots | Retail chemists | 2,157 | 2,182 | -25 |
16 | Almac [7 cos.] | Pharmaceuticals | 2,149 | 2,113 | 36 |
17 | Lloyds banking | Financial service | 1,863 | 1,745 | 118 |
18 | Citigroup | Financial service | 1,847 | 1,585 | 262 |
19 | Norbrook Labs | Pharmaceuticals | 1,766 | 1,653 | 113 |
20 | Caterpillar (NI) | Engineering | 1,666 | 1,666 | 0 |
21 | Wrights Group | Bus assembly | 1,655 | 1,579 | 76 |
22 | Firstsource | Call centre | 1,606 | 1,886 | -280 |
23 | Concentrix | Call centre | 1,547 | 1,563 | -16 |
24 | Golf holdings | Drinks distributor | 1,508 | 1,525 | -17 |
25 | Danske Bank | Bank | 1,489 | 1,505 | -16 |
26 | Dunbia | Meat processor | 1,367 | 1,170 | 197 |
27 | G4S [3 cos.] | Support services | 1,361 | 1,063 | 298 |
28 | PWC | Financial services | 1,326 | 1,130 | 196 |
29 | Seagate Tech. | IT equipment | 1,321 | 1,408 | -87 |
30 | Santander | Financial service | 1,277 | 1,193 | 84 |
31 | N.I.E.Networks | Electricity supply | 1,253 | 880 | 373 |
32 | Next | Retail | 1,251 | 1,164 | 87 |
33 | Robinson Services | Support services | 1,231 | 1,126 | 105 |
34 | Terex [2 cos.] | Engineering eq. | 1,207 | 1,055 | 152 |
35 | Dunnes Stores | Retail | 1,123 | 1,287 | -164 |
36 | Graham Holdings | Construction | 1,097 | 1,063 | 34 |
37 | Primark | Retail | 1,064 | 927 | 137 |
38 | Mount Charles | Catering services | 1,006 | 1,047 | -41 |
39 | Bank of Ireland | Bank | 996 | 1,007 | -11 |
40 | Charles Hurst | Vehicle sales | 960 | 811 | 149 |
41 | Musgrave Gp (2cs) | Retail | 933 | 859 | 74 |
42 | Northstone | Construction | 908 | 949 | -41 |
43 | Karro Food | Meat processor | 894 | 825 | 69 |
44 | B&M | Retail | 888 | 811 | 77 |
45 | Iceland Foods | Retail | 880 | 842 | 38 |
46 | Heatons (NI) | Retail | 875 | 840 | 35 |
47 | Randox | Pharmaceuticals | 839 | 815 | 24 |
48 | First Trust | Bank | 820 | 871 | -51 |
49 | McDonalds/Rahon | Fast food | 807 | 707 | 100 |
50 | Linden Foods | Food processor | 775 | 810 | -35 |