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Newry Business Improvement District (Newry BID) have launched a photography competition with a £200 voucher to spend in Newry Computer Centre, Monaghan Street as the top prize.
They want to see your original shot of Newry City and will be looking at shots that are creative, alternative, unique and original.
To enter you need to post your photograph to the Newry BID Facebook Page at www.facebook.com/pages/NEWRY-BID/734607033294735, “Like” their page and the entry that attracts the most likes will be the winner.
Hurry though you have just go till Tuesday the 31st of March to get your entries up.
A Business Improvement District (BID) is a defined geographical area which the local businesses have voted to invest in collectively to improve its environment and Newry BID is in the early stages of endeavouring to make a major difference to the area.
Project Manager Sarah Henry wants to ensure that the Newry BID helps create a vibrant, buzzing and welcoming city centre.
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Businesses from across the Newry Dundalk region recently attended a ‘Race Night’ at Dundalk Stadium.
The event was jointly hosted by Newry and Dundalk Chamber’s of Commerce.
Over 60 delegates enjoyed the excitement of the horse and greyhound racing while socialising and networking at this Dundalk Stadium sponsored event.
President Deborah Loughran, Newry Chamber stated, "We were delighted to co-host this after hours networking event with our colleagues in Dundalk Chamber. There are strong linkages between to the two Chambers. Hosting events like this for our members helps develop and promote linkages with our Cross Border business colleagues. On behalf of Newry and Dundalk Chamber’s we would like to thank Dundalk Stadium for hosting the event and McCartan.bet for the complementary betting vouchers for guests"
Emma Meehan, Dundalk Stadium, added "We were delighted to support this event with Newry and Dundalk Chamber’s of Commerce. Dundalk Stadium is an excellent venue for corporate entertaining and networking; this event helped profile our facilities and offerings"
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FIELDMOTION a Newry technology company providing mobile workflow management software aimed at helping businesses move towards a paperless office has announced 25 new jobs for the city.
The Belfast Road based company is rapidly expanding into one of the leaders in the market with 25 new positions created in the first two months of 2015.
In the past two years the company which specialises in recording real time data for staff working away from the office has gone from five employees to more than 30 people working in sales, marketing and operations.
Jerome Finnegan, Managing Director from FIELDMOTION said, “The software has been operational for two years but it is only in 2014/15 that we have really sensed a lift in the market to enable us to rapidly expand the reach of the product and take on the additional staff.
“Basically, the FIELDMOTION software allows sales people, engineers, tradespeople and other service providers who work away from the office to record data and send it safely back to the office in real time straight from their smartphone. This includes everything from signatures and photos to reports and documentation. With the system in place which manages the customer relationship it effectively allows companies to create completely paperless offices which is not only good for the environment but is proven to save money.
“We have noticed real growth in the construction and trade sectors for the product which coincides with an overall brighter outlook in the economy.”
Jerome added, “Through organic growth across Ireland and the UK markets, we hope to experience further year on year growth in 2015.”
You can find out more about the company at www.fieldmotion.com
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Sinn Féin MEP Martina Anderson has urged businesses in the Newry area to begin preparing robust business cases in order to access a slice of over £208M of new European funding.
“I welcome the fact that over £208m has been made available through the Special European Union Programme Body (SEUPB) as part of their new cross-border co-operation programme,” she said.
“The money, which will be divided into four categories of research and innovation, the environment, sustainable transport and health, will allow over 400 businesses to access money as well as bringing improved environment projects to over 10,000 people.
“I have already brought many interested groups to Brussels over the past few years and will continue to assist these groups in accessing funding.”
Newry and Armagh MLA Mickey Brady said the funding presented a real opportunity for people in the constituency.
“This money will soon be available for small businesses and enterprises along the border region in order to improve employment opportunities as well as environmental projects,” the Westminster candidate said.
“I would appeal to businesses and interested groups across Newry and Armagh to start preparing robust business cases as applications for this money will be very competitive.
“The application process and deadline dates will soon be on the SEUPB website at www.seupb.eu and I would urge businesses to monitor the website so that deadlines are not missed.”
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In a deal worth up to £13M Newry company First Derivatives has added data analysis company Prelytix to their portfolio with the aim of boosting their presence in the marketing technology sector.
First Derivatives announced today they have acquired the entire issued share capital of Prelytix Inc. ("Prelytix") for an initial consideration of US$7.5m (£4.9m) and a maximum total consideration of US$20m (£13.0m). The acquisition, which will be earnings enhancing in the Company’s financial year to 29 February 2016, expands the Newry company's presence in the fast-growing marketing technology sector.
Commenting on the acquisition Brian Conlon, Chief Executive Officer of First Derivatives said "Digital marketing is one of a number of vertical markets challenged by rapid growth in data volumes. This acquisition creates a unique end to end technology marketing firm with industry leaders at the helm backed by a software platform and a team of data scientists. This offers the potential to generate significant revenues for the Company. The acquisition of Prelytix follows our £15.3m share placing earlier this month to accelerate opportunities in Fast Data and we continue to target additional vertical markets in which we have the capability to disrupt. We look forward to updating the market in due course."
The acquisition of Prelytix forms part of First Derivatives strategy to penetrate additional vertical sectors, beyond its core in capital markets, using the capabilities of the Delta platform and kdb+. The combination of an established innovative business in the marketing technology sector, along with the capabilities of FD’s software will accelerate the route to market for both companies.
Mike Kelly and Marc Laplante, co-Founders of Prelytix, commented: “The data we provide results in better intelligence about prospects and higher revenue opportunities for our clients. While Prelytix has achieved rapid growth to date, the size of the data sets we analyse and the complexity of the analytics that has to be performed against it to unlock the full value of the data, has been a limiting factor in our ability to scale our business. With First Derivatives and the Delta platform, we look forward to being able to focus on increasing our customer base and providing even more sophisticated analytics to help clients maximise their revenue opportunities.”
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Thanks to a £90,000 investment from Invest NI, Carnbane Business Park in Newry will be the location for 15 new jobs when Carlow-based surveillance company Netwatch Ireland Ltd sets up a remote monitoring and disaster recovery hub in the city.
Netwatch is a global Risk Management Company specialising in providing business continuity, risk management and security services to clients across the globe. Netwatch System Ltd in Northern Ireland is the first operations hub to be established by the company outside of its global HQ and represents a significant investment by the company.
Welcoming the investment Mark Bleakney, Invest NI’s Southern Regional Manager, said: “Netwatch Ireland is an award-winning, high-tech company built on research and development, and a strong customer focus. I’m delighted that it has chosen to establish its new hub in Newry, creating 15 jobs that will pay above the Northern Ireland private sector median.
“Netwatch System Ltd, like its parent company, will have a strong export focus and will deliver a service that is adapted to suit customer needs. I’m confident that it will contribute to the further growth and international standing of the Netwatch brand.”
The new monitoring and disaster recovery hub will deploy the most advanced protection technologies to protect individuals, assets and premises across the world.
Commenting on the investment, Wendy Hamilton Netwatch Ireland’s COO, said: “Netwatch is providing mission critical services to companies around the globe. They depend on Netwatch to ensure they are protected against major incidents, such as a terror attack and more importantly that they can continue to operate their businesses in the event of a major incident whether accidental or as a result of a deliberate act against the company. Establishing a second operations hub means that we can support an expanding client base across Europe, Middle East and Africa and that we can ensure continuous monitoring of their property.
“We are growing aggressively and will double the size of our business, hopefully growing to 50 people in Newry, over the next three years. We chose Newry because it is an ideal location for us, with a cost-competitive business environment and excellent support from Invest NI. The Newry monitoring and disaster recovery hub will initially target the motor dealer industry in the US as well as high net worth individuals in Africa, both key markets for our services.”
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Newry’s Appletree Dental Care took a ‘Highly Commended’ award at last week’s Irish Dentistry Awards for ‘Most Outstanding Website’.
Practice Owner Katrina Mc Kevitt said: ' We are delighted to have been recognised again at this year's awards. Many of our new clients are attracted to our practice because of the quality of our web site. The photographs of our work and testimonials are reassuring to new patients that here at Appletree, they are going to be in the safest of hands.'
The Dentistry Awards are designed to recognise progress, effort and enterprise in general practice dentistry both North and South of the border. This award follows on from success at last years’ awards where Appletree Hygienist Zara Mc Kibben was recognised as Northern Ireland’s Best Hygienist.
For more information see www.appletreedental.co.uk or follow us on facebook.
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Newry firm Malone Lynchehaun, one of Northern Ireland’s fastest-growing cloud accountants, has been recognised at a UK-wide financial technology event in London.
The firm also has an office in Newcastle and was named Xero Partner of the Year for Northern Ireland.
The company attribute much of their commercial success to being early adopters of cloud accounting.
Malone Lynchehaun’s manager, Aidan Malone, attended Xerocon. Commenting on the win, he said “We’re incredibly proud to be recognised at such a high-profile, national industry event. Xero’s online accounting software is easy to use and gives clients more control and visibility of important day-to-day financial activity. This allows us to deliver high level advisory services which small business customers really value.”
Malone Lynchehaun has been a Xero partner since 2013 and a Silver Partner from last year. Aidan said the ability to handle multi-currency transactions was just one of the reasons why Xero was an attractive solution for his firm and its clients. Other cloud accounting firms shortlisted in the Northern Ireland category at the Xerocon awards event included Ross Boyd in Belfast, Exchange Accountants in Belfast and Omagh-based Turbett & Co..
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If a night at the races blended with a chance to do a bit of networking is up your street the special ‘Race Night’ after hours business networking event with Newry and Dundalk Chamber’s of Commerce on Friday 27th February in Dundalk Stadium is just the ticket or should we say betting slip!
Guests will enjoy all the excitement of the horse and greyhound racing while socialising and networking with members, colleagues and business associates at this Dundalk Stadium sponsored event.
President Deborah Loughran, Newry Chamber stated, ‘we are delighted to co-host this after hours networking event with our colleagues in Dundalk Chamber. We would like to encourage all businesses within this cross border area to join with us in what we anticipate to be a great nights fun and entertainment in a relaxed networking environment’.
Emma Meehan, Dundalk Stadium, stated, ‘we are delighted to sponsor this event with Newry and Dundalk Chamber’s of Commerce, we have no doubt that Chambers members and guests will enjoy the race course buzz in the luxury of our corporate facilities in the stadium’.
‘Race Night’ will commence at 5.30pm and costs only £10pp for Chamber members and £20pp for non members (VAT incl). This includes entry to the stadium and a finger buffet. Booking is essential. To reserve your place(s); please contact Newry Chamber of Commerce on 028 3025 0303; email: info@newrychamber.com or book online: www.newrychamber.com
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