Arthur J Gallagher, an Illinois-based insurance brokerage and risk management services firm, has signed a deal to purchase the Giles Group of Companies (Giles) of London for an undisclosed amount. Giles is an independent retail broker ...
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Bernadette Walsh, archivist with the Council's Heritage and Museum Services explained: "James Glass established his first business as a portrait and landscape photographer in Derry city in 1875 at 65 Carlisle Road - 'Glass 's New ...
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In results published today (27 August), the Greenock-based polythene manufacturer said that operating profits increased 14% to 16.4m. Chairman Cameron McLatchie said: "The improvement in operating profits can be attributed to another ...
The Building Services Research and Information Association (BSRIA), a test, instruments, research and consultancy organization providing specialist services in construction and building services, has become the newest endorsing association ...
McErlain’s Bakery, a family business based in Magherafelt, Northern Ireland, UK, has announced expansion plans, a move which will create 100 new production jobs. The expansion was announced by Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster. ...
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Northern Ireland-based potato supplier Glens of Antrim Potatoes is trialing the use of recycled plastic produce boxes supplied by Marmax Products in the UK. Glens of Antrim Potatoes has ordered for 120 produce boxes, which have saved the ...
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Flexible packaging supplier Bemis’ division Perfecseal has launched a new high barrier flow wrap specification, which can achieve hermetic seals at the maximum speed capabilities. Perfecseal pharmaceutical director Georgia Mohr said ...
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BT has hit back against press criticism generated by the National Audit Office's report into the rising costs and delays that have affected the government's rural fibre-broadband rollout. The company says, in particular, that it has not ...
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Scottish potato crisp company Mackie's at Taypack is set to double its output after developing a new manufacturing facility in Errol, which is 60% bigger than its current unit at nearby Moncur, Perthshire. Production will more than double ...
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Richmond, Va.-based DuPont Protection Technologies, a business unit of Wilmington, Del.-based DuPont, has announced it will increase production capacity of specialty colored DuPont? Kevlar? yarn at its Richmond plant. The company reports ...
Coffee giant Starbucks has refused to comment on plans to tackle tax avoidance agreed by G8 leaders in Northern Ireland yesterday (June 18). Many have found Starbucks' UK tax strategy hard to swallow A spokeswoman for the firm ...
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Smartphone maker BlackBerry, which enjoys a particularly strong niche in the enterprise due to its security claims, has defended itself against allegations that its security was penetrated by the spies at GCHQ. According to the Guardian, ...
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New trade talks between the EU and US will create growth opportunities for Europe's food and drink industry, claim manufacturers, who together exported £11.67bn of food and drink to the country last year. Trading places: New US/EU ...
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G8 leaders have signed an Open Data Charter, in which all nations involved have agreed to "establish an expectation that all government data be published openly by default". All eight nations attended a summit in Northern Ireland which ...
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Greiner Packaging has announced that it will create 10 new jobs at its plant in Dungannon, Northern Ireland, in a £2.2m expansion The Austrian-owned plastics packaging specialist currently employs 210 staff in NI and is investing ...
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