Fast-food franchise serves up 30 jobs with new KFC drive-through
One of Northern Ireland’s most successful franchise operations has created 30 new jobs and expects to take on another 70 people over the next year. Herbal Restaurants, which currently employs 1,100 people, operates the KFC brand here and opened a “double-height drive-through” at Ballyhackamore in East Belfast last week where the first tranche of the...
New posts created as medical firm unveils £6m extension at factory
A medical manufacturing firm is set to create 25 new jobs after obtaining planning permission for an extension. TG Eakin, which employs 60 people in the manufacture of skin protection products, is making a £6m investment which will involve a 5,000 square metre extension to its factory in Comber. Its planning application was fast-tracked by...
£400k boost for city’s Park Centre
Over 20 new jobs are set to be created in west Belfast after a shopping centre signed up three new tenants. The long-established Park Centre, at Donegall Road just off the Broadway roundabout, is welcoming Specsavers, Feetish fish pedicure and Card Factory following a £400,000 investment. The centre is already home to 40 existing retailers...
Northern Regional College launches a unique Foundation Degree in retailing
An innovative employer led Foundation Degree will encourage up-skilling in the retail sector, it was claimed. Dr Stephen Farry, Minister for Employment and Learning, acknowledged the new qualification at a recent event in Junction One’s Omniplex cinema complex in Antrim. Addressing the retailing employers attending the event, Minister Farry said: “One of the ways in...
£65m social housing injection brings jobs boost
A funding partnership will bring a £65m boost to Northern Ireland’s social housing and support construction jobs. A £30m loan from Northern Bank will help Clanmil Housing access a further £35m statutory grant funding from the Department for Social Development. The combined public and private funding will allow construction of 550 new homes, bolstering the...
Restaurant and cookery school aims to serve up 30 new posts
Around 30 jobs are to be created at a new restaurant and cookery school in Belfast when it opens next month. The owners of James Street South are to open The Bar + Grill, a 60-seat, three-storey restaurant on the corner of James Street South and Brunswick Street, just feet away from its award-winning sister...
Group targets 100 digital start-ups
One hundred new digital companies could be created in the north-west by 2015. That’s the aim of Digital Derry, the group set up to boost the development of the digital sector in Londonderry. The group is planning to help launch a privately-funded incubation project and a major international festival. The city’s digital champion Mark Nagurski...
Invest NI jobs fund allows firms to hire more than 40 new employees
More than 40 new jobs will be created in the North West through an Invest NI initiative. Axa Insurance, Fresh Food Kitchen and One Stop Data, all based in Londonderry, will benefit from new staff thanks to the Jobs Fund, previously known as the Short Term Employment Scheme, which was set up earlier this year...
Manufacturing firm expands with creation of 30 new posts
A manufacturing company from Co Antrim has created 30 new jobs. Creative Composites, which has just opened a new factory extension in Lisburn, currently employs 136 people and designs, manufactures and assembles components for a diverse range of industries, including the forklift truck, bus and coach, automotive, construction, vending and other manufacturing sectors. Creative Composites...
Subaru and MG drive into Belfast with a new dealership
A new car dealership has opened in Belfast, creating 15 new jobs. RMG Motors said it has invested more than £1m in the Boucher Crescent outlet – the city’s only Subaru and MG showroom. As well as a champagne reception at the showroom to herald the launch, the company hosted two family fun days at...