Ulster Business

A business initiative offering free support and resources to managers and leaders in Northern Ireland is re-launching its services.

A Swiss-based hedge fund with expected assets under management (AUM) of $100 million which predicts currency market movements went live recently – and the key to its success lies in cutting-edge software developed at Northern Ireland Science Park (NISP) in Belfast.
Technology developed at Rantec Research will be operated by Hepta GFX Fund – a Geneva [...]

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, [...]