Margaret Canning
Business Editor at Belfast Telegraph
Writer at Weekly Business Digest Newsletter
Belfast Telegraph Business Editor & winner of Business Journalist of the Year at the 2024 NI Media Awards. [email protected]
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1 week ago |
belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Margaret Canning |James McNaney
Carol Fitzsimons, CEO of Young Enterprise NI, tells Margaret Canning and James McNaney how she kept the organisation going after it lost half of its fundingCarol Fitzsimons MBE has been running Young Enterprise Northern Ireland for a decade and a half. Young Enterprise runs a range of online and in-person schemes with around 90,000 young people a year in Northern Ireland.
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2 weeks ago |
belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Margaret Canning
Impact of Covid emergency blamed for shops’ closureA charity is to close its nine local shops after struggling in the wake of the Covid pandemic, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal. Self Help Africa, which is based in the Republic and was formerly known as War On Want, has pulled down the shutters of five of the stores already. The remaining will close over the next few weeks.
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2 weeks ago |
belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Margaret Canning
Data from the labour force survey said there had been 30.4 million hours worked per week between February and April – an increase of 4.3% over the year. The Department for the Economy, which released data on the labour market on Tuesday, said the number of hours worked was 1.2% above the pre-Covid-19 position. It described the annual increase as a “statistically significant” change, which brought the number of hours worked to the highest level recorded in recent times.
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2 weeks ago |
belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Margaret Canning
Measures announced in the Budget in October hitting pubs and restaurants hard, according to a new survey, and the industry is calling for them to be reversedMore than a quarter of hospitality businesses in Northern Ireland are operating at a loss and at risk of failure, a report said today.
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3 weeks ago |
belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Margaret Canning
A retail revival is now in full swing in Belfast city centre with Donegall Place, long afflicted with empty units, due to reach full occupancy, it’s been claimed. Business group Belfast One said the arrival of new brands like underwear label Victoria’s Secret at Donegall Place, along with LEGO and Bershka at Victoria Square, heralded a reversal of fortune for the city.
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