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We want to help business across Northern Ireland become more productive, innovative and profitable, and in turn deliver an economy that works for everyone.

We recently launched our new business strategy ‘Our Future in Focus 2024-27’. It is a three-year plan focused on raising productivity, creating good jobs, driving sustainability, and promoting balanced regional growth – the four pillars of Minister Murphy’s Economic Mission.

Peter Curran, our Head of Dual Market Access Unit, outlines below the new tariffs announced by the US administration.

Peta Conn, Director GB and Europe, highlights some of the activities that Invest Northern Ireland’s GB and Europe team have been involved with during the last year.

In today’s fiercely competitive global marketplace, productivity is vital for business survival. Businesses with higher productivity levels and lower costs per unit of output are more competitive in both domestic and international markets.

Productivity is also crucial for wider economic prosperity. A country with higher productivity usually has more export potential, job creation, and sustainable growth.

Northern Ireland lags behind the UK and the Republic of Ireland’s productivity levels. According to the Productivity Institute’s ‘NI Productivity 2040’ insights paper, the failure to

Discover the unique advantage of Northern Ireland's dual market access—trade seamlessly with GB & the EU. Learn how to grow your business today!

Northern Ireland is uniquely positioned to become a global leader in green manufacturing, technology, services, and supply chain innovation. Rachel Sankannawar, Head of Green Economy Development at Invest Northern Ireland, explains why businesses should embrace the green economy and how Invest NI is helping them succeed.

In the spirit of Thanksgiving and as his tenure as US Special Envoy for Economic Affairs draws to a close, Invest NI’s Director of Trade & Investment, Anne Beggs writes in the Irish News about Joe Kennedy III’s catalytic impact on businesses right across Northern Ireland and laying the foundations for a legacy of growth opportunities.

Steve Harper, Invest Northern Ireland’s executive director, international and skills, sets out Northern Ireland’s unique competitive position.

John Hood, Invest Northern Ireland’s Director of Food & Drink reflects on a challenging year for businesses and provides a flavour of how the agency will continue to support the sector in 2020.

In the first of a two-part feature, we look at how NI companies are taking huge steps to help the fight against COVID-19.

Each year we report our end of year performances figures, highlighting in particular our progress against our 4 year Business Strategy targets which were set as part of the draft Programme for Government.

The sudden contraction of export markets, loss of supply chain and government decisions to lockdown whole countries and close all but essential businesses has sent shockwaves through economies right around the globe as COVID-19 has moved from continent to continent.

The immediate global impact of COVID-19 on businesses has been huge, both financially and operationally. It has caused disruptions to global and local supply chains, including the supply of essential raw materials and energy.

In this feature we look at the activity we undertook during 2019/2020 to support business growth, future investment and job creation across Northern Ireland. This activity will drive our outcome performance in future years.

In recent months, much of the world has had travel and business restrictions in place in the fight against COVID-19. Countries in Asia were among the first to go into lockdown, and are now amongst the first to emerge. As the restrictions ease and Asia moves to a ‘new-normal’ there are business opportunities for Northern Ireland companies to expand in the region.

COVID-19 has brought many challenges, but there are also opportunities and some Northern Ireland SME businesses are looking to take advantage of this.

This year, I had the opportunity to sit on the panel for the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise. Now in their 54th year, the Queen’s Awards are considered by many as the highest UK official award for businesses and are awarded for outstanding achievement in the categories of innovation, international trade, sustainable development and promoting opportunity through social mobility.

This feature is the second in our ‘Spotlight on Singapore’ a series of collaborative articles providing insights into the dynamics of region and potential opportunities for Northern Ireland businesses in Singapore; a gateway to Asia.

Having met at a matchmaking event, organized as part of the Food Business Summit and Interreg-funded NICHE project, two breweries (one from Finland and one from Northern Ireland) have been working together to produce original and innovative beer recipes.

This feature is the third in our ‘Spotlight on Singapore’ series of collaborative articles providing insights into the dynamics of the region and potential opportunities for Northern Ireland businesses in Singapore; a gateway location to Asia.

The Graduate to Export programme for international marketing students was recently launched. The programme allows Northern Ireland companies to enhance their export capability with a graduate assisting them with a market research project. As part of the programme we will be following the stories of three of the graduates to get an insight into their experiences.

In the January/February 2020 edition of Business Eye, Rose Mary Stalker is clear about her short-term priorities as the new Chair at Invest Northern Ireland.

Northern Ireland is well known to be the world-leading region in the manufacture of mobile bulk processing and wet processing equipment. In fact, over 40% of the tracked mobile crushing and screening products in the world are made in Northern Ireland.

With the year delay, Expo 2020 Dubai hopes to bring the world together for the first time since the pandemic to celebrate our collaborations, innovations and resilience in a world that is fighting and defeating COVID19.

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Invest Northern Ireland’s three-year business strategy aims to unlock the potential of businesses across NI

People, place, and prosperity: why Newry, Mourne and Down is positioned for success

What do the latest US tariffs mean for Northern Ireland manufacturers?

Invest Northern Ireland - GB & Europe Team - Forging Ever Stronger Relationships Across GB & Europe

Innovate for success: how can we solve Northern Ireland’s productivity problem?

Dual market access - time to think differently?

Invest Northern Ireland: helping firms seize opportunities in the global green economy

Joe Kennedy III has left a lasting legacy for Northern Ireland

Setting out NI’s competitive offering for investment

Supporting the growth of NI's food and drink sector

Rising to the COVID-19 challenge

Latest results show good progress towards 2017-21 Business Strategy Targets, with final year now subject to COVID-19 impact

Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on our sectors

Make savings through energy and resource efficiencies

Supporting business growth and investment across Northern Ireland

Singapore: your gateway to Asia

Investing in SME Innovation

Queen’s Awards recognises NI’s business excellence

Singapore: A country where cybersecurity is a top priority

The Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) works with Walled City Brewery to help grow its business

Singapore: A global financial and FinTech hub of innovation

Graduate to Export | Graduates on track for success

Invest NI Chair, Rose Mary Stalker, charts future plans

Northern Ireland: Engineering Excellence for the Materials Handling sector

Northern Ireland on a Global Stage – Innovation & Opportunity

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