Laying the Foundation for Future Success
TECHNOLOGY company Allstate Northern Ireland has begun work on what is the largest single office building to be constructed in Northern Ireland in 15 years. Minister for the Economy, Simon Hamilton joined Allstate Executive vice president, Suren Gupta and Allstate NI managing director, John Healy to lay the foundation stone at the new Belfast Headquarters...
MADE UP AT NEW CONTRACT
AWARD winning makeup artist and entrepreneur Paddy McGurgan has won a lucrative contract to be the sole Irish stockist of LA based makeup collection Lime Crime. Lime Crime, which was created in 2008 by style icon Doe Deere and its entire lip collection and Venus eye collection, has a mass cult following from all over...
BREXIT BUSINESS ADVICE
MORE than 100 local business leaders attended a recent seminar about the effect Brexit would have on the Northern Ireland businesses. Representatives from a range of industry sectors including agri-foods, ICT, energy, and manufacturing attended the event organised by the CBI. The seminar was designed to help local companies respond to the initial market reaction...
QUALIFICATION FOR HOUSING SECTOR
A NEW training programme has been launched to help improve and professionalise the private rented sector. Learning 2 Let is a training programme developed by the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) which offers all registered private landlords and letting agents in Northern Ireland the opportunity to get the accredited CIH Level 2 Award in Letting...
Summer Course for Creative Teens
TWELVE young people will have the opportunity to participate in a make-up school this summer. Titanic Creative Management is running the scheme at its Belfast studio where the students will gain experience in prosthetic and specialist make-up for TV and film taught by one of Hollywood’s top make-up artists, EMMY nominated Brian Kinney. Aimed at...
Allstate Northern Ireland lay the foundation for future success with largest single office building
Belfast, Northern Ireland, 26th July, 2016 – Multi-award winning technology company Allstate Northern Ireland today laid the foundation stone at its new headquarters on the banks of the River Lagan, a further indication of the company’s long term commitment to Northern Ireland. Minister for the Economy Simon Hamilton joined Suren Gupta, Allstate Executive Vice President,...
How To Increase Your Digital Job Prospects In NI
The advancement in technology over the past 25 years has changed the way in which humans interact and communicate to forever. The introduction of the ‘World Wide Web’ in 1990 has led to 95% of people in the UK now shopping online. People no longer go online – they live online. Such advancements has led...
Two New Apprentices for Belfast Law Firm
LAW firm Allen & Overy has recruited two new apprentices through a two-year ‘earn while you learn’ programme. The hands-on scheme, led by the Department for the Economy, will see Conor O’Neill and Connor McIlwain spend up to four days per week gaining valuable on-the-job experience while also studying part-time for industry essential qualifications and...
Creative Industries Boost
THE First Minister, Arlene Foster, and deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, have officially opened the new four-floor studio for BAFTA-winning and EMMY® nominated children’s television producer, Sixteen South. First Minister, Arlene Foster said: “It is companies like Sixteen South, with talented people, including world class animators that are helping to grow this industry and our...
Brush with Success
BELFAST based make-up artist and entrepreneur, Ciara Daly has secured a lucrative contract with Gordons chemists to sell her make-up brush collection. Created and designed by Ciara the Hero foundation brush has already proven a phenomenal success with over 40,000 brushes being sold in less than four years by students at her make-up academy, Hero...