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Eastside Awards Recognises Charity Fundraiser For Outstanding Contribution

This year’s Eastside Awards in association with George Best Belfast City Airport has been the most successful to date. A testament to the community’s engagement and support for the awards, almost 14,000 votes were cast by an enthusiastic public in partnership with Belfast Live to recognise favourites in seven categories. The ballroom at Hastings Stormont

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Northern Ireland Sickness Absence Rate Reaches Eight Year High

A new report by Ulster University Economic Policy Centre (UUEPC) comparing and analysing sickness absence across the UK, to better understand the impact for businesses, has found that in 2022, Northern Ireland experienced its highest sickness absence rate since 2015. The findings from the report ‘Sickness Absence. Lessons for Northern Ireland Businesses and Managers’ show that the

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Jet2holidays Provides £650,000 In Apprenticeship Funding To Support Independent Travel Agent Partners

Jet2holidays has revealed that it is providing almost £650,000 of apprenticeship funding to support independent travel agent partners in developing the next generation of talent in their stores and in the travel industry. This funding includes the transfer of almost £500,000 in apprenticeship levy funds to independent travel agents, after a phenomenal response to Jet2holidays’ Appoint an Apprentice scheme.

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NI Construction Workloads Continue To Fall, But At Slowest Rate In Two Years

Construction workloads in Northern Ireland continued to fall through the last quarter of 2023, but they did so at the slowest rate since early 2022, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Construction Monitor. A net balance of -10% of respondents in NI reported a fall in workloads, up from -38% the

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Belfast Software Firm Cloudsmith Launches Navigator, A Game-Changer For Open-Source Package Selection

Cloudsmith, a pioneer in cloud-native software supply chain management, has launched Navigator, an innovative search engine designed to empower software engineering teams to select the highest quality packages early in their development lifecycle. Navigator slashes the time it takes for engineers to find the most appropriate packages, saving both time and money and creating a

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Newly Independent Technology-Enabled Trading Alliance (TETA) To Usher In A New Era Of Global Trade Innovation

The Technology-Enabled Trading Alliance (TETA), a consortium that has rapidly become a hub for innovative solution providers in global trade, is set to become an independent entity, spinning out from ubloquity where it was incubated. In a strategic move to refocus its core business, ubloquity has decided the time is right to decouple TETA, allowing

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US Special Envoy Joe Kennedy III Addresses NI Chamber Members

U.S. Special Envoy to Northern Ireland for Economic Affairs, Joe Kennedy III addressed a group of NI Chamber members in Belfast this morning, encouraging them to adopt a “healthy dose of American confidence” as they seek out opportunities to trade internationally. He had high praise for the impact that Northern Ireland has had on the

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Hillview Retail Park Attracts Major New Brands To North Belfast

Hillview Retail Park in Belfast is hitting the ground running in 2024 as it welcomes one of the UK’s fastest growing gym brands and a hardware and home improvement giant to the Crumlin Road. JD Gyms, the fitness arm of popular high-street retailer JD Sports PLC, will open its first venue in Northern Ireland at

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Danske Bank To Recruit 12 New Apprentices

Danske Bank has reopened applications to its higher-level Apprenticeship programme Danske Futures for 2024 and is looking for twelve new apprentices to join the bank. The programme, which first launched in 2018 in partnership with Ulster University, allows students to study part-time for a degree while securing a permanent role within the bank’s Personal Banking

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