Euro matches VAT hike(27 July 2010) The strengthening of the Euro will help stabilise Newry’s profitable cross border trade, a city accountant has claimed.
Paddy Harty senior partner at FPM Accountants predicted at the time of the budget release that the swing in the Euro would ...
Firms should give back(27 July 2010) Companies need to show greater commitment to communities as it is more important than ever a bank official has said.
Colleen Casey relationship manager at Bank of Ireland Business Banking was speaking after an award dedicated to effective corporate...
MJM Group wins contract for celebrity chef's £5m restaurant(27 July 2010) Newry based company MJM Group has won a contract worth about £5m to fit out a restaurant for the experimental celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal.
The restaurant is at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Hyde Park London.
As revealed in last week’s editio...
Firm Wins Shop Deal(27 July 2010) A Newry property company has secured a multi-million pound loan to develop a shopping complex in Slovakia.
Parkergreen International – the company behind the Quays shopping centre – will begin work on the site in Travna near Bratislava in September....
Challenges ahead (22 July 2010) Orla Jackson Chief Executive of Newry Chamber of Commerce and Trade said: “Newry and Mourne has been hard hit by the economic downturn particularly by the damage to the construction industry. This has resulted in massive job losses to that and relati...
£6.2m growth(22 July 2010) MJM Group has secured new contracts worth £6.2m with support from Invest Northern Ireland.
The award winning Newry based firm provides specialist joinery fit out and marine refurbishment to clients from the banking, hospitality and commercial retail...
Fear over Jobs(20 July 2010) Newry Democrat
Newry’s jobs crisis has gone from bad to worse. Figures from the Department of Enterprise Trade and Investment have revealed that Newry has seen the worse jump in unemployment anywhere in the country.
Unemployment figures for the New...
Cross border micro trade programme launched(20 July 2010) A cross border business development programme to assist and grow the micro enterprise sector has been launched.
Promoted under the campaign banner of Tradelinks the programme has received £3m worth of funding from the European Union.
It...
