Ulster Business

Nationwide franchise café chain The Streat has been bought by Henderson Foodservice, a division of Henderson Group, for an undisclosed sum.
The Streat said its 37 outlets in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Scotland produced annual turnover for 2009 of over £8 million, an increase of 8% on the previous year. It was founded

The elite of Northern Ireland’s in-house and consultancy Public Relations practitioners gathered in November at Belfast’s Europa Hotel for the 2009 Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) PRide Awards.
Holywood-based consultancy, LJK Communications, claimed the gold award for Outstanding PR Consultancy while The Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People (NICCY) won the top award

Bombardier Aerospace has kicked off construction at its new state-of-the-art aircraft wing manufacturing and assembly facility in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
“This is another significant milestone in the ongoing development of the CSeries aircraft programme,” said Guy Hachey, President and Chief Operating Officer, Bombardier Aerospace. “August, the test fuselage barrel arrived ahead of schedule at our St-Laurent,

Phase one of a £6 million terminal enhancement at George Best Belfast City Airport has been completed ahead of schedule following the opening of a new departure lounge which will create 20 new jobs.
Those using the airport will now depart from a new lounge on the first floor capable of handling 12,000 passengers per day,

Northern Ireland needs more business angels to bring forward ‘Smart Money’ to help build successful businesses, according to halo, the NI Business Angel Network.
This will be the key message delivered at a business angel awareness raising and recruitment event to be held on 21st October at the Northern Ireland Science Park (NISP), the body which