NORTHERN IRELAND’S TOP 100 COMPANIES IN PROFILE 20
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The plant currently delivers its products into engine plants based in the UK, France, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, South Africa and China. It continues with its investment programme to produce engines for small fuel-efficient, high-volume, low-emission family vehicles. In 2012 it acquired the replacement programme for the Ford Panther programme worth an estimated £200m to the plant in turnover. This will be delivered to Ford plants across the world.
Managing director: Jim Burke Pre-tax profit: £14.178m Employment: 582 Pay bill: £16.896m The Cutts Dunmurry Belfast Co Antrim BT17 9HN Tel:028 9030 1049 www.montupet.fr
The company has also come under fire for the use of staff on short-term contracts. A number of staff in stores in Northern Ireland and the Republic took part in a strike in early April.
Chief executive: Margaret Heffernan Pre-tax profit: £13.893m Employment: 1,724 Pay bill: £17.58m. 46-50 South Great George’s Street Dublin 2 Tel: 00353 1 475 1111 www.dunnesstores.ie
Randox is a global market leader in the diagnostics industry. Founded in 1982 by Dr Peter FitzGerald CBE, the company now has offices and distribution in more than 145 countries. Currently 5% of the world’s population is diagnosed using Randox products — the company’s ambition is to see this rise to 10% by 2020. Randox recently purchased the former army barracks in Antrim, now called Randox Science Park, which will become the firm’s primary manufacturing site. The
facility will also house a Randox Health centre for transformative medicine, open to the public. This £161m investment will also lead to the creation of 540 high-value job opportunities. The expansion in Co Antrim is mirrored by growth and development in Randox Teoranta, a life sciences facility in Co Donegal, focusing on pioneering research into diseases of the kidneys, liver, colon cancer and Alzheimer’s. Randox re-invests around onequarter of all profits into research & development.
Managing director: Dr Peter FitzGerald Pre-tax profit: £12.923m Employment: 989 Pay bill: £24.379m 55 Diamond Road Crumlin Co Antrim BT29 4QY Tel: 0 28 9442 2413 www.randox.com
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government and council contracts to supply electricity. LCC Power has grown from employing seven people in 2012 to close to 60 in 2015. LCC’s Oil Division was established in 1997 to expand the range of fuels available to customers. Meanwhile the company has also seen good development in its ‘Go’ brand of petrol stations which are now a noticeable feature across Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. The company has 35 Go Forecourts.
16 Churchtown Road Cookstown Co Tyrone BT80 9XD Tel: 028 8676 5588 www.lcccoal.com
the pipeline. In late 2013 they completed their latest project, the 73MW Slieve Kirk Wind Park in Co Londonderry, which represented a £125m. Since 2008 SSE has created 98 direct and 120 indirect full time roles in Northern Ireland through the growth of its business. In August 2014 the SSE announced plans to bring a further 143 jobs to the company’s new corporate premises in Belfast. The 143 additional jobs will support its growing energy retail operations in Ireland.
Managing director: Stephen Wheeler Pre-tax profit: £13.56m Pay bill: £735m SSE 3rd Floor Millennium House 17-25 Great Victoria Street Belfast BT2 7AQ Tel: 0345 601 9093 www.sseairtricity.com
Managing director: Michael Loughran Pre-tax profits: £14m Employment: 156 Pay bill: £4.1m
SSEAirtricity
SSE Airtricity is Northern Ireland’s second largest energy provider, supplying electricity and natural gas to more than 300,000 homes and businesses. Since 2008 SSE has invested £0.5bn in sustainable energy infrastructure. In Northern Ireland SSE generates 88MW of renewable energy powering 75,000 homes each year. In order to help meet the Stormont Executive’s 2020 renewable energy targets, the company has a further 166MW of new wind farm capacity in
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Lissan Coal Co
LCC Group is based in Cookstown in Co Tyrone, and is made up of LCC Coal, LCC Oil, the newly formed LCC Power and a number of other companies. Profits are largely derived from overseas bulk trading activities in countries as far afield as South Africa, Columbia and across Europe. The recently launched LCC Power has risen to hold a prominent share of the Northern Ireland business power market, with the high profile announcement of
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Dunnes Stores
Irish grocery and clothes multiple Dunnes Stores operates one Northern Ireland-registered company. Dunnes Stores (Bangor) consolidates the trading figures for all of the Dunnes Stores in Northern Ireland as well as a smaller number of outlets in England. The group describes its main business as the retailing of textiles, grocery and houseware goods. It recently closed its store in east Belfast’s Connswater Shopping Centre at short notice. Around 10 stores remain.
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Montupet
Montupet is a French manufacturer for the automotive sector, with two manufacturing plants in France and one in each of Spain, Mexico, Bulgaria and Northern Ireland, and more recently has launched a joint venture in India. Montupet UK has been in Northern Ireland since 1989, and manufacturers cast aluminium cylinder heads for petrol and diesel engines used in engines for Ford, Peugeot, Citroen, GM, Volvo, Fiat, Mazda and Jaguar Land Rover vehicles.
Howden UK
Howden was set up more than 150 years ago and has grown into a worldwide organisation. In Belfast, Howden UK manufacture gas and air handling equipment including centrifugal fans, axial fans and rotary heat exchangers. The company was originally an engineering firm trading as Sirocco Works or Davidsons before becoming part of the Howden group. In 2012 Colfax Corporation acquired Howden Group.
NB:After the Top 100 Companies table was compiled, the company annouced it was closing its Belfast operation.
Production director: David McMinn Pre-tax profit: £12.535m Employment: 309 Pay bill: £14.348m New Sirocco Works Channel Commercial Park Queens Road Belfast BT3 9DT Tel: 028 90 457 251 www.howden.com
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