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 …
Ambition To Grow Competition Launched By Invest NI To Support SME’s
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, …
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Are Green Policies Being Shunted To The Sidelines?
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 …
Group Calling For Urgent Action To Come To The Aid Of Businesses
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 …
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Late Payments A Growing Issue For Businesses
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 …
Police In Bid To Reduce Business Crime
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 …
Energy Price Cap For Businesses Finally Announced
The long awaited news that there will be an energy price cap for businesses in Northern Ireland will come as a welcome relief for many of them, as they can now begin to plan ahead with some degree of certainty. Fixing Gas And Electricity Prices For 6 Months The announcement was made a few days …
Private Sector Contracts Further As Orders Fall
The private sector in Northern Ireland contracted further in September, the fifth consecutive month that it has reduced its activity. The blame is being put squarely at the door of falling new orders, more cost increases and worsening economic conditions. Contraction Very Much To The Fore In September In a statement about the worrying trend …