Business confidence in Northern Ireland is at a seriously low level at this moment in time, with a recent survey reporting that there has been a further fall in new orders last month. This is actually the 6th month in a row that the amount of new orders has fallen. All regions of the UK …
Survey Reports A Further Fall In New Orders For BusinessesRead More
The gap between public sector and private sector pay has narrowed here in Northern Ireland recently, but there is still quite an astonishing gap, with public sector workers on average being paid 30% more than their private sector counterparts. And that is more than any other region of the UK. On top of that the …
Gap Narrows Between Public And Private Sector Pay But Large Divergence Still RemainsRead More
There is a real concern that during this cost of living crisis, with higher inflation and spiraling energy costs, that many businesses will go under, and this now seems to be borne out by the fact that over 150 takeaways have closed in Northern Ireland in just the last few months with many others on …
An interesting competition has been launched by Invest NI in a laudable effort to help innovative small, micro, and medium-sized enterprises to increase their workforce and grow sales outside Northern Ireland. This is a fantastic opportunity for some of the most enterprising businesses in the country to promote their products to a much wider audience, …
Ambition To Grow Competition Launched By Invest NI To Support SME’sRead More
I think there is now a huge consensus of opinion that we have a real climate crisis on our hands here on planet earth. A mixture of carbon emissions, other pollutants and deforestation etc have significantly raised the temperatures year on year and now we are suffering with more droughts and floods. Action Needs To …
There is a campaign growing in Northern Ireland which is calling on the government to urgently help businesses who are struggling with rising energy and other business costs. The group who launched this campaign are an organisation from the Larne area and it is building up support from charities, churches, care groups, schools and other …
Group Calling For Urgent Action To Come To The Aid Of BusinessesRead More
Recent analysis is showing that there was a huge total of 306,078 invoices that were overdue in Northern Ireland in the third quarter of this year, that is up from 286,357 overdue invoices in the 2nd quarter. Over 27,000 businesses reported invoices that were overdue from customers, which will have put many of them under …
Business crime is an ever-present and worrying blot on the landscape in Northern Ireland, costing businesses huge amounts of money they can ill afford to lose and adding to their stresses and strains. So it is to be applauded that the police are looking to target business crime and have planned a week of action …
