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TOP 100 Northern Ireland Companies 2017
NORTHERN IRELAND’S TOP 100 COMPANIES IN PROFILE
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John Graham Group executive chairman: Michael Graham Pre-tax profit: £17.2m Employment: 1,761 Pay bill: £73.2m
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Lissan Coal Company Managing director: Michael Loughran Pre-tax profit: £16.5m Employment: 176 Pay bill: £5.3m
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TG Eakin Managing director: Paul Eakin Pre-tax profit: £16.5m Employment: 64 Pay bill: £1.8m
Seagate Vice President, Heads Operations: Dr Brian Burns Pre-tax profit: £15m Employment: 1,395 Pay bill: £64.4m
Ballygowan Road Hillsborough Tel: 028 9268 9500 www.graham.co.uk
16 Churchtown Road Cookstown Tel: 028 8676 5588 www.lcccoal.com
15 Ballystockart Road Comber Tel: 028 9187 1000 www.eakin.eu
Springtown Industrial Estate Londonderry Tel: 028 7127 4000 www.seagate.com
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raham Holdings works across the UK and Ireland. It operates in the building, civil engineering, interior fit-out, facilities management, environmental and energy management and highway maintenance markets. Projects include work on a refurbishment of Senator, 85 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4, on behalf of Legal & General. It is also working on the North Sea Link Interconnector, a 1400 MW HVDC electricity transmission interconnector connecting Kvilldal in Norway and Blyth in England. GRAHAM-BAM Healthcare Partnership, a joint venture between GRAHAM Construction and BAM. has won the Most Considerate Site at this year’s Considerate Constructors Scheme’s 2017 National Site Awards for its work on the Ulster Hospital’s new general ward block.
CC Group is made up of LCC Coal, LCC Oil, Go Power and a number of other companies. Profits are largely derived from overseas bulk trading activities as far afield as South Africa, Columbia and across Europe. It recently bought Cloghan Point Oil Terminal near Carrickfergus from AES Power in a multimillion pound deal. And in October last year, it bought out its joint venture partner, Norwegian oil giant Statoil ASA, to acquire full ownership of the Maydown oil terminal in Co Londonderry. Go Power has risen to hold a prominent share of the Northern Ireland business power market, government and council contracts to supply electricity. LCC Power has grown from employing seven people in 2012 to close to over 170. LCC’s oil division was established in 1997 to expand the range of fuels available to customers.
Kainos Group plc Managing director: Brendan Mooney Pre-tax profit: £14.3m Employment: 733 Pay bill: £35.4m
Montupet (UK) Ltd Managing director: John McMichael Pre-tax profit: £13.7m Employment: 593 Pay bill: £19.9m
4-6 Upper Crescent Belfast BT7 1NT Tel:028 9057 1100 www.kainos.com
Dunmurry Belfast BT17 9HN 028 9030 1049 www.montupet.fr
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ueen’s University spin-out Kainos had another successful year after floating on the London Stock Exchange in summer 2015. Kainos, led by Brendan Mooney, provides information technology expertise to global clients in government, financial services and healthcare, provides software design, support and implementation services, and project management. Mr Mooney was recognised as the EY Entrepreneur of the Year in Ireland in 2016. Kainos currently employs more than 700 staff across its Belfast, Londonderry, London, Bristol and Gdansk operations. Increasing trends towards digitisation and adoption of enterprise Software as a Service (SaaS) have generated strong demand for its digital services in public and commercial markets in the UK and Europe.
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ontupet has been operating in Northern Ireland since 1989 and is now part of the Canadian industrial group Linamar, based in Guelph, Ontario. The Montupet Group was purchased by Linamar through a “friendly” acquisition in February 2016. This acquisition was to add a leading player in the design and manufacture of complex aluminium light casting to the Linamar capabilities. The larger group now consists of 58 manufacturing plants worldwide with a total workforce of 25,500 and total turnover of CAN $ 6.06B, and net earnings of CAN $ 696M. The product range encompasses engine, transmission, driveline components and assemblies and the brand Skyjack manufacturing scissor lifts and telescopic booms. The Dunmurry plant makes cast aluminium cylinder heads for petrol and diesel engines used by Ford, Peugeot and others.
G Eakin is a Comber-based company which makes medical skincare products for use in stoma and wound care. With a turnover of £28m, the family-run Eakin Group is one of Northern Ireland’s biggest success stories in the health sector. The firm’s biggest market is the US but its products are sold in 40 countries around the world. In 2014, the company invested £12m extending its Comber manufacturing facility to over 100,000 sq ft. It also acquired English firm Cliffe Medical, which owns Respond Plus in Larne, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition of Cliffe was TG Eakin’s first since 2007, when it took over Pelican Healthcare in Cardiff. The company was founded by Tom Eakin and is now run by his sons Paul and Jeremy.
Thompson Aero Seating Director: Gary Montgomery Pre-tax profit: £13.7m Employment: 285 Pay bill: £12.4m 50 Seagoe Industrial Estate Portadown BT63 5QE Tel: 028 3833 4000 www.thompsonaero.com
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hompson Aero Seating makes airline seating and says it is “recognised for cutting edge design, engineering and manufacture of premium business-class, full flat-bed airline seating”. In December last year, the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) has acquired Thompson Aero Seating in a multi-million pound deal. To meet increased demand Thompson’s first production facility was secured at the Seagoe Industrial Park, Portadown in 2011, and the manufacture of the first Thompson Vantage seats began. Customers include Aer Lingus, American Airlines, Air Canada, Brussels Airlines and Austrian Airlines. Thompson Aero Seating has said it is looking forward to expanding its capacity in light of the deal. Thompson Aero Seating was founded by James Thompson though he later sold his shares.
eagate is the industry leader in hard disc drives and storage solutions. The company offers the industry’s broadest portfolio of hard disc drives, solid state drives and hybrid drives, as well as an extensive line of retail storage products for consumers and small businesses. At its wafer fabrication facility in Springtown, Londonderry, the company develops and manufactures recording heads, which write information onto and read information from the recording disk inside a hard drive. The Springtown facility, which has been operating for over 20 years, is the largest factory of its type.
Dunnes Stores Chief executive: Margaret Heffernan Pre-tax profit: £13.2m Employment: 1,474 Pay bill: £18.5m 46-50 South Great George’s Street Dublin 2 Tel: 00353 1 475 1111 www.dunnesstores.ie
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rish 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. The company has carried out major renovations to its store at Belfast’s Forestside Shopping Centre, and is also renovating its store at the Abbeycentre in Newtownabbey. It has closed stores in east Belfast’s Connswater Shopping Centre and Park Centre in the west of the city, as well as Antrim, Ballymoney and Portadown. The directors of the UK firm, Frank Dunne and Margaret Heffernan, are the driving forces behind the Dunnes Stores success story of the modern era.