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Key regulations for building / construction & property services businesses wanting to trade internationally
This guide provides an overview of the building, construction and property services sector, the key regulations you will need to comply with as an exporter or importer and selected sources of further help and support.
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Green light for £330m road upgrade
A £330 million scheme to upgrade two stretches of road across two counties in Northern Ireland has been given the green light.
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5 Ways To Tap Ad Agency Funding
For startups, selling advertising agencies on your technology can be fraught with difficulty. As startups emerge from their development cycles, investors begin clamoring to get the prototype to market.
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Leitrim County Enterprise Board: Advertising Administrator / Project Assistant role in Harnessing Creativity Project
The Harnessing Creativity Project which is funded under INTERREG IVA is a cross border initiative, to encourage new thinking across the creative and broader business sectors, and facilitate the effective harnessing of creativity for economic vibrancy in the region.
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Use innovation to start or grow your business
Innovation plays a fundamental role in the success of many of the world’s leading businesses. Often, the objective of dynamic, growing businesses is to innovate as well as to generate profits.
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Santander hikes lending to SMEs
Spanish bank Santander says it has increased lending to small business by 34% in the first half of the year in Northern Ireland, providing £26m of new lending to small businesses in the region.
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Starting a business: advice for disabled people
This guide offers resources to help you start and grow your own business. It considers the impact of self-employment on disability benefits and specialist support, and suggests ways of overcoming barriers you may encounter when starting up your business.
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Belt-Tightening Squeezing Innovation
LESS companies in the north are innovating – because they can not afford it.
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Business tax cut could create 2,800 foreign investment jobs
A reduction in the rate of corporation tax in Northern Ireland could create an extra 2,800 foreign direct investment jobs annually – a doubling of the current forecast – according to a new report.
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Enterprise Minister turns sod at £2.3million Omagh Innovation Growth Centre
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster today led a sod turning ceremony to begin construction of a new Innovation Growth Centre at Omagh Enterprise Company (OEC). The new facility has the potential to create around 200 new jobs.
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Survey: Bribery Act still confusing managers
This week marks a year since the UK Bribery Act came into effect – but according to a survey by a big-four accountancy firm, 72 per cent of middle managers are unaware of its implications.
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Managing your energy use
Energy can be a significant cost for an organisation. However, in many cases putting in place an effective energy management strategy can lead to substantial savings.
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Businesses urged to consider Olympic TV Licensing
Approximately 2,100 hours of live Olympic coverage will be shown during working hours. According to TV Licensing, many workplaces are planning ahead, allowing staff to Stop, Watch and Cheer Team GB / Ireland.
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We are getting older faster
The first results from the 2011 census for Northern Ireland released last week did not include analysis of the religion or ethnic background of the population – this will come later this year or early in 2013 – but it did include a mass of detail on the age distribution of the population and the structure of households.
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Embracing digital for customer interaction
A recent study by IBM and Forrester shows that 83 per cent of UK businesses continue to use telephone centres as their primary source of customer contact, and are failing to embrace digital channels for consumer interaction.
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3 Reasons to Recruit via Talent Communities
For all its efforts to adopt new technology and adapt to the communication tools and needs of the candidate pool, recruiting overall is still in the dark ages.
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Dear Marketers: You Need a Data Scientist
We’ve all heard about the endless possibilities around big data. How this unimaginably enormous repository of information holds the key to every revolutionary marketing technique we’ve ever imagined. In several ways, it’s true. And that’s where data scientists come in.
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£50bn investment to kick-start economy
THE British government will underwrite up to £50 billion of in-vestment in UK infrastructure and exports, under radical plans unveiled by George Osborne.
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Social Enterprise Awards Northern Ireland 2012
The Awards highlight and promote excellence in the social economy sector across Northern Ireland. Winners of categories 1-5 will also progress to a UK wide award ceremony to be held in London on the 14th November 2012, coinciding with Social Enterprise Day.
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Save money by using energy more efficiently
Saving energy doesn’t need to involve expensive new equipment – it’s often about changes in behaviour and using existing equipment more efficiently.
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