TOP 100 Northern Ireland Companies 2019
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NORTHERN IRELAND’S TOP 100 COMPANIES IN PROFILE
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Forestside Acquistions Director: Mark Fenchelle Pre-tax profit: £7.2m Employment: N/a Pay bill: N/a
Brett Martin Holdings Chief executive: Laurence Martin Pre-tax profit: £7.2m Employment: 968 Pay bill: £31.4m
Tullymore House Managing director: Colin Johnson Pre-tax profit: £7m Employment: 498 Pay bill: £9.3m
Charles Hurst Group operations director: Colin McNab Pre-tax profit: £7m Employment: 809 Pay bill: £24.5m
Victoria House Gloucester Street Belfast www.forestside.co.uk
24 Roughfort Road Mallusk, BT36 4RB Tel. 028 90 849999 www.brettmartin.com
Galgorm CoAntrim BT42 1EA Tel: 028 2588 1001 www.galgorm.com
62 Boucher Rd Belfast BT12 6LR Tel: 028 9517 0268 www.charleshurstgroup.co.uk
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orestside Acquisitions is a property investment company relating to south Belfast shopping centre Forestside. Formerly it and Londonderry’s Foyleside had been held in a single company before being split into two separate firms. Both had been backed by Irish venture capital fund Kildare Partners, with two of its directors, Ryan Horstman and Emer Finnan, appointed to both companies. However, they have since resigned from Forestside Acquisitions. Two new directors Mark Fenchelle and Louis Paletta, have now been appointed. Forestside Shopping Centre remains one of Belfast’s most successful retail destinations. A branch of health and beauty retailer chain Superdrug recently opened at the location, in the unit formerly occupied by New Look.
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rett Martin is Northern Ireland’s largest thermoplastics manufacturer with sales of £155.5m in 2017. Established in 1958 the company has grown in significance to become one of the largest manufacturers of polycarbonate in Europe. Privately owned and managed, it has operations at seven separate UK sites with export activities extending to over 70 global markets. Brett Martin’s competencies include plastics extrusion, injection moulding and rotational moulding. Output consists of flat, corrugated and structured plastic sheet in polycarbonate, GRP, PVC, foam PVC, PET and acrylic, pipe extrusions, profile extrusions, and, moulded parts and fittings. Principal market sectors include construction, fabrication, print and display.
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t’s been a period of expansion for Tullymore House Ltd, first known as owners of the luxury Galgorm Resort & Spa in Co Antrim. The business acquired a derelict chapel in south Belfast to turn into a branch of its pizzeria restaurant, Fratelli, before also revealing that it would turn the nearby former parochial house into a boutique hotel. It also owns city centre restaurant Cafe Parisien. However, there was further evidence of greater ambitions this year when it announced it had acquired the Templeton Hotel in Templepatrick, which it’s to renovate in a £7m project. Last year it announced the £600,000 purchase and refurbishment of the Castle Kitchen + Bar at Galgorm Castle Golf Club in 2018. The company, now known as Galgorm Collection, was set up by brothers Nicholas and Paul Hill.
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eadquartered at Belfast’s Boucher Road on Europe’s largest automotive site and part of the UK car retail and aftercare giant Lookers plc, Charles Hurst Group is officially Northern Ireland’s largest car retailer. Operating across the island of Ireland since 1911 and employing more than 1,100 staff in 11 locations in Northern Ireland, Charles Hurst represents 18 car manufacturers, three motorcycle manufacturers, a dedicated van centre and four specialist tyre operations. It’s led by group operations director Colin McNab who has been with the company for more than 40 years. Charles Hurst also specialises in luxury, premium brands including Ferrari, Aston Martin, Maserati and Jaguar Land Rover. Last year, it opened a new £8m ‘dual store’ Jaguar and Land Rover base.
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Andras House Chief executive: Rajesh Rana Pre-tax profit: £7m Employment: 248 Pay bill: £5.4m
Old Bushmills Distillery Master distiller: Colum Egan Pre-tax profit: £6.9m Employment: 110 Pay bill: £6m
Golf Holdings Director: Patrick Hunt Pre-tax profit: £6.9m Employment: 1,625 Pay bill: £23.9m
Kilmona Group Managing director: Paddy Kearney Pre-tax profit: £6.9m Employment: 301 Pay bill: £2.7m
60 Great Victoria Street, Belfast BT2 7BB Tel: 028 9087 8787 www.andrashouse.co.uk
2 Distillery Road Bushmills BT57 8XH Tel: 028 2073 3218 www.bushmills.com
3 Duncrue Place Belfast BT3 9BU Tel: 028 90 746274 www.winemark.com
Bedford House 16-22 Bedford Street, Belfast BT2 7FD Tel: 028 9089 1444 www.kilmonaholdings.com
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ndras House Ltd is a leading property development and hospitality company in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was set up in 1981 by Lord Diljit Rana and is now led by his son Rajesh. The company has grown into a multi-million pound organisation with an extensive portfolio of office, hotel and leisure developments. Its portfolio in Belfast is made up of six hotels and serviced apartments on the city’s Lisburn Road. The hotels include the four-star Crowne Plaza in Shaws Bridge, which has 133 rooms, as well as the four-star Holiday Inn in the city centre, with 250 rooms. It added the Hampton by Hilton last year in a new opening in the city centre. It has also won planning permission for a venue in Portrush on the north coast, a boutique hotel on the site of the old Londonderry Hotel.
ushmills Irish whiskey, one of Northern Ireland’s most globally-acclaimed products, has been part of Mexican drinks giant Jose Cuervo since its sale by Diageo in 2015. Jose Cuervo and Old Bushmills Distillery are part of the Becle group. Jose Cuervo’s ownership has brought a surge in ambition for the distillery, which now has planning permission to double production over the next five years. The plans involve a new distillery, boiler house, cooling equipment and barrel store on the existing site, all part of a £60m expansion. Last year the distillery also received permission to build 29 additional maturation warehouses. In a strategic report accompanying its accounts for 2017, the directors comment that Bushmills remains “one of the leaders in the Irish whiskey category and demonstrated a good level of performance in its major markets”.
olf Holdings is the holding company for a group of businesses in the hospitality sector. It’s best-known for Wine Inns, which owns pubs and restaurants such as south Belfast’s Chelsea Wine Bar, and off-licence chain Winemark, which is made up of 84 stores around the province. The group also includes wholesale wine company James E McCabe. Philip Russell Ltd - a wholesale and retail distributor of wines, spirits, drinks and pet food products — is another subsidiary. Golf Holdings is also behind the Russell’s Food and Drink chain of convenience stores. Wine Inns’ Belfast bars also include The Doyen, formerly the King’s Head, Alibi, Cutters, The Parlour, the Four Winds and Robinsons. The Eglantine on University Road was put on the market this year for £1.4m.
ilmona Holdings is a property investment and property development group, based in Belfast, operating in the retail, office, industrial, leisure and residential property sectors. Kilmona is supported by Causeway Asset Management, which describes itself as “a multi-disciplinary commercial and residential property investment and asset management company”. Assets include the former Carryduff Shopping Centre in Co Down, which is to be regenerated in an £8m project. In Belfast city centre, it owns 46,000 sq ft of Grade A office space at Chichester House, which has been recognised for its digital connectivity. It also owns Nine Lanyon Place, where the Department of Finance rents 150,000 sq ft of Grade A office space set over six floors. It also owns city centre hotel Ten Square, which has recently been extended.