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Belfast firm tops business lists following record turnover

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Belfast based Commodities and manufacturing group, W&R Barnett was Northern Ireland’s top performing business last year according to analysis from Ulster Business magazine. The magazine analysed the country’s top 100 firms looking primarily at their turnover. Barnett had sales of £1.57 billion and pre-tax profits of £69.1 million for the year ending July 2022. Barnett […]

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Almost a third of managers of hybrid teams feel they need to prove their worth when working from home

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An international study from Insights Learning & Development among 3,000 office workers across Europe and North America, has found that managers of hybrid teams see multiple benefits to this new working arrangement. These include improved team performance, improved team agility and increased ability to deliver on objectives.  However, on a personal level, many managers highlighted the

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Wendy Dean honoured at National Business Women’s Awards

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Award-winning HR Director, CEO and women’s mentor Wendy Dean (pictured above), has been announced as a proud finalist for the Lifetime Achievement Award at the prestigious National Business Women’s Awards. The inspirational business leader is honoured to be shortlisted as one of only three finalists in the award category, which celebrates women who throughout their career have supported

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Scottish hairstylist continues to find success with her new salon

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Multi award winning hairstylist, Claire Louise Naismith is seeing great success with her salon, Hair We Go on Glasgow’s Hope Street. The ability for stylists to help people feel better about themselves is what initially drew her to the beauty industry. She would start her journey taking courses at Clydebank and Coatbridge colleges as well

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Global firm promotes new partners

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Deloitte’s annual round of promotions has seen the appointment of two partners in their Belfast office. Ciaran Fitzpatrick becomes a partner in Deloitte’s Enterprise & Technology Performance Consulting business, while Jason Starbuck has been made a partner in the firm’s Audit and Assurance practice in Belfast. Since joining the firm in 2002 Ciaran Fitzpatrick has worked

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Harley Haddow bolsters sustainability division with new appointment

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Harley Haddow has further strengthened its sustainability offering with the appointment of a new Associate Director.   Stephen Gallacher (pictured above) has relocated from London to Edinburgh to join the multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy, which he previously worked for earlier on in his career.   He brings with him more than 16 years of experience and will support the recently launched Building

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Tanning giant adds fifth salon in Yorkshire stronghold

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A growing appetite for tanning salons has seen Britain’s biggest chain open its fifth outlet in Yorkshire. Doncaster has become the latest location to receive a £350,000 hi-tech salon from the expanding UK-wide firm, Indigo Sun, taking its Yorkshire-based workforce to 48. The new venue has opened at the White Rose Retail Centre, creating eight

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Metals4U partner with Ore Projects to combat the trade sector skills shortage

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A mentoring scheme has been launched to reduce the skills shortage in the trade sector by encouraging young people into metalworking.  There is a nationwide skills shortage across the construction industry, with YMCA figures showing a cut to youth services funding by local authorities since 2010. This is making it difficult for employers in the

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Cutting-edge demos boost small business growth in Scotland’s machining sector

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From robotic machining, digital machine shop planning, low-cost machining IoT and process optimisations for cycling, automotive, fashion, and covid response, engineering experts at Scotland’s world-leading R&D manufacturing hub have helped growing businesses harness their competitive edge after completing a major European project. The University of Strathclyde’s Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) – part of the

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