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Lyons visits UAE to bolster relations ahead of Northern Ireland day at Expo 2020

Economy Minister Gordon Lyons today began his first official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Minister has been meeting key government officials, university leaders and business stakeholders to explore how Northern Ireland businesses can strengthen their economic growth in the UAE. He will also visit the UK Pavilion at Expo 2020.

NI companies to ‘Go Dutch’ in The Netherlands

Economy Minister Gordon Lyons is in The Netherlands this week to meet with seven Northern Ireland companies participating on Invest Northern Ireland’s Going Dutch Programme.

Design bites | Use your brand voice to say stuff that matters

Do you address your marketing messages to everyone, or to someone? Have you ever created an audience persona, or tried to imagine a real customer when you craft your social media posts? Do you have a brand tone of voice, or have you ever even thought about it?

Language contains true magic and it can help us connect with our audience on an emotional level, instead of regurgitating overworked corporate cliches that add to the meaningless noise.

New York company Agio to create 100 jobs

Economy Minister Gordon Lyons announced today that leading US IT and Cybersecurity services provider Agio is to create 100 jobs and a new technology centre in Belfast.

Emerging opportunities in offshore wind

With the drive towards a net zero future by 2050, the UK and Irish Governments have set ambitious policies to achieve this using the natural resource of offshore wind, which will play a bigger role in the energy mix. This requires a huge expansion in wind energy and the associated supply chains as it plays an increasingly important role in the economy.

A key part of delivering this will be to build new capacity and skills in local companies. In this tutorial, you will hear from local companies who have existing capability in offshore wind and find out how they can diversify into this growth

Access to Finance | Ambition to Scale – Day 2 The Fundraising Journey

Whether starting up or scaling up, all businesses with an ambition to grow need access to funding.

Hosted by Susan HayesCulleton and delivered by Invest NI, British Business Bank and InterTradeIreland, this video tutorial is a recording of day two of a two day conference.  With an overarching theme of ‘Ambition’, the conference was targeted towards businesses seeking to scale, and wished to find out more on how to obtain finance to achieve growth, through the experience of industry experts and local businesses. Day two focused on the fundraising journey, and explained how businesses can

Helping SMEs seize opportunities in times of COVID

While the Belfast area attracts a wide array of large, international investors, the vast majority of Invest NI’s role is supporting the growth and development of our local home-grown businesses – SMEs have received 93 per cent of the offers of support across Belfast in the last 5 years.