Ulster Business Magazine

Pulse PR: a decade in Northern Ireland communications

Friday 10 January 2020 by Ulster Business

Pulse PR’s Grainne McGarvey sits down with Ulster Business at the Fitzwilliam Hotel in Belfast to chat about marking 10 years in business amid an evolving media landscape, growing from strong entrepreneurial family roots and the next step in her company’s journey

Will this be one of the most important years of the 21st century?

Friday 3 January 2020 by Ulster Business

Gareth Hetherington, director of the Ulster University Economic Policy Centre, takes a look forward at the business and politics which we could be facing in one of the most important years of this century

Yearbook: a look back at 2019

Thursday 2 January 2020 by Ulster Business

It was another year shaped by political turmoil and the loss of some giants of industry, but it was also a period which saw great opportunity and growth. John Mulgrew examines some of those stories making the headlines in 2019

Private equity and venture capital: Big to small, local and global

Thursday 2 January 2020 by Ulster Business

Northern Ireland is actively trying to attract new money from outside these shores in a bid to boost burgeoning young start-ups, local funds are continuing to see the value in some of our emerging businesses while industry stalwarts are now in private fund ownership. Ulster Business examines the investment landscape

Interview: Brexit and the £8bn industry

Wednesday 1 January 2020 by John Mulgrew

John Mulgrew speaks to Richard Ballantyne, chief executive of the British Ports Association about working with 350 ports and harbours across the UK, what a ‘no deal’ Brexit could mean for Northern Ireland and the wider sector

News

Stormont deal: Business back new Assembly

Friday 10 January 2020 by John Mulgrew

Northern Ireland’s business community has given its support for a deal which has seen the Assembly up-and-running after a three year stasis

Bombardier pushing forward with major Belfast factory extension

Friday 6 December 2019 by John Mulgrew

Bombardier is pushing forward with major multi-million pound plans which could extend its aircraft facility in Belfast by around 60%, Ulster Business can reveal.

Multi-million pound holiday park for north coast

Monday 2 December 2019 by John Mulgrew

A new multi-million pound 33 acre holiday home park is being developed for the north coast as the area’s tourism sector continues to boom, Ulster Business can reveal

Analysis

Will this be one of the most important years of the 21st century?

Friday 3 January 2020 by Ulster Business

Gareth Hetherington, director of the Ulster University Economic Policy Centre, takes a look forward at the business and politics which we could be facing in one of the most important years of this century

Interview

Pulse PR: a decade in Northern Ireland communications

Friday 10 January 2020 by Ulster Business

Pulse PR’s Grainne McGarvey sits down with Ulster Business at the Fitzwilliam Hotel in Belfast to chat about marking 10 years in business amid an evolving media landscape, growing from strong entrepreneurial family roots and the next step in her company’s journey

Profile

Growing in the alternative lending market

Wednesday 4 December 2019 by Ulster Business

Conor Devine MRICS has grown his GDP Partnership business significantly in the last eight years, and is now lending around £3m each month to Northern Ireland businesses. And despite uncertainty and choppy economic waters, he’s predicting further growth ahead