Ballymena Carfest & Truck Show
VENUE: Ballee Playing Fields DATE: Saturday 8th June 2013 TIME: 11am to 5pm ADMISSION: Adults £4, Children under 12 FREE The YESSS Electrical Ballymena Carfest and Truck Show is a great day out for all the family. This year we have motorcycle stunt team Broke FMX, the qualifying round for Europe’s Strongest Man and a [...]
Galgorm Castle Estates Investment
Enterprise Minister, Arlene Foster, has welcomed the announcement of an £8 million investment at Galgorm Castle Estates which will create over 60 full-and part-time jobs in Ballymena, at an event this morning in Ballymena’s Braid Centre. Galgorm Castle Estates Developments, Ballymena, which, currently consists of Galgorm Castle, a courtyard housing twenty businesses and a championship [...]
Safe Town for those living with domestic abuse
Ballymena to become a Safe Town for people living with domestic abuse. Mayor of Ballymena, Alderman PJ McAvoy, welcomed local businesses along to the Braid Arts Centre, to acknowledge their support for people living with domestic abuse in the town, and helping Ballymena become a Safe Town for anyone living with abuse. Ballymena Mayor Alderman [...]
Ballymena Borough Council Principal Sponsor
Ballymena Borough Council has agreed to be the principal sponsor for the 2013 Ballymena Borough Business Excellence Awards. The awards are organised annually by Ballymena Borough Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Mayor PJ McAvoy, Anne Donaghy (Town Clerk and Chief Executive), Chris Wales (Chamber Business Development Manager) and Thomas McKillen (Chamber President) Announcing the sponsorship [...]
Innovation Award for Ballymena Student
Peter Ruck from Ballymena, a final year student in Human Resource Management at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown has been named a winner of the Ulster Business School’s Placement Innovation Awards 2012 in the Department of Management and Leadership. Peter spent a year with InterTrade Ireland where he instigated an event management system which [...]
Chamber AGM
Ballymena Borough Chamber of Commerce and Industry held its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 17th April in the Adair Arms Hotel. A large number of members were present to hear outgoing President Thomas McKillen give an upbeat speech on the past year, highlighting the number of successful events which the Chamber had run. Members of [...]
Buses Leave for London
The production line manufacturing Boris Johnson’s new buses for London, hailed as the ‘greenest of its type anywhere in the world’… has delivered its first vehicles to the capital. The first two buses have left the Wrightbus factory in Ballymena, and will be followed by another four next week with a further 594 over the next three [...]
Chamber welcomes Arlene Foster
Arlene Foster MLA, Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment was the guest speaker at a business lunch on 10th April. The lunch, held in the Adair Arms Hotel, was organised by Ballymena Borough Chamber of Commerce and Industry and there was an excellent turnout from the local business community. Front Row L-R Audrey Wales MBE, Thomas [...]
N.I. Firm Named Best in UK
Marcon Fit-Out crowned McDonald’s UK Contractor of the Year. Antrim-based Marcon Fit-Out has been named as McDonald’s UK Contractor of the Year at an awards ceremony in Birmingham. The local company, which employs 30 people at its Kilbegs headquarters in Antrim, was awarded the top prize for its work in reimaging McDonald’s restaurants across the [...]
Retailers should register to pay Bag Levy
Environment Minister Alex Attwood is today advising businesses dispensing new single use carrier bags to complete their online registration now with the Department of the Environment. Retailers who have received their registration letters from the Department should complete their registration online at http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/baglevy using the log in details supplied in their letter. Any retailer who [...]
