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TOP 100 Northern Ireland Companies 2016
NORTHERN IRELAND’S TOP 100 COMPANIES IN PROFILE
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Almac Group Chief executive and chairman: Alan Armstrong Pre-tax profits: £12.6m Employees: 3,297 Pay bill: £130.4m
Progressive Building Society Chief executive: Darina Armstrong Pre-tax profits: £12.62m Employees: 155 Pay bill: £5.1m
FP McCann Managing director: Eoin McCann Pre-tax profits: £12.3m Employees: 1,027 Pay bill: £32.7m
Sangers Managing director: Peter Surgenor Pre-tax profits: £12m Employees: 223 Pay bill: £6.6m
33 to 37 Wellington Place Belfast BT1 6HH Tel: 028 90244926 www.theprogressive.com
3 Drumard Road Knockloughrim Magherafelt Co Londonderry BT45 8QA Tel: 028 7964 2558 www.fpmccann.co.uk
2 Marshalls Road Belfast BT5 6SR Tel:028 9040 1111 www.mckesson.com
Almac House Seagoe Industrial Estate Craigavon BT63 5QD Tel: 028 3833 5815 www.almacgroup.com
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he Almac Group is a pharmaceutical contract development and anufacturing organisation providing services from research through pharmaceutical and clinical development to commercialisation of products for over 600 global biopharma companies. The private company is headquartered in Craigavon with additional operations in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, California, Singapore and Japan. Last year brought many developments including a deal with biotech corporation Genentech Inc and the acquisition of Arran Chemicals, and expansion into Charnwood Campus in Loughborough, England.
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rogressive Building Society is Northern Ireland’s largest locally owned financial institution. Employing 160 people across 12 locations in Northern Ireland, Progressive forms an important part of the financial services industry in the province. It was recently awarded Investors in People Standard in recognition of the commitment to its staff. Over the past 100 years Progressive has maintained the values of a traditional building society, providing value-based products to enable members to fund local home ownership in Northern Ireland. Despite the testing economic climate over the last number of years, the society has maintained a well-structured balance sheet and produced strong financial results.
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ajor infrastructure contracts and strategic acquisitions in Northern Ireland and Great Britain powered a surge in turnover, profit and employment at the Magherafelt construction company FP McCann. It’s been in business for more than 70 years and is run by the McCann family. Last summer, the company bought over the Co Fermanagh quarry and construction firm P Clarke and Sons after it went into administration. In December, it added to its precast concrete arm with the acquisition of Buchan Concrete Products, a long-established firm employing 300 people in Cheshire and Staffordshire.
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angers has been part of the Amercian McKesson Corporation since April this year. It was sold off by United Drug plc, parent company of Alchem as part of the disposal of its UDG Healthcare supply chain services businesses. Sangers (NI) is largest local wholesale supplier of drugs and pharmaceutical supplies in Northern Ireland. The company distributes pharmaceutical products to the mainly independently-owned high street chemists and hospital pharmacies. It also has an established comprehensive and frequent daily delivery schedule to maintain (and supply) products that may be needed in chemist outlets at short notice. It operates from two depots, in Belfast and Omagh.
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Kainos Software plc Managing director: Brendan Mooney Pre-tax profits: £11.8m Employees: 612 Pay bill: £31m
Wrights Group Managing director: Mark Nodder Pre-tax profits: £11.6m Employees: 1,552 Pay bill: £46m
Dunnes Stores Chief executive: Margaret Heffernan Pre-tax profit: £11.4m Employment: 1,592 Pay bill: £17.4m
4-6 Upper Crescent Belfast BT7 1NT Tel:028 9057 1100 www.kainos.com
Galgorm Industrial Estate Fenaghy Road Galgorm, Ballymena Co Antrim BT42 1PY Tel: 028 2564 1212 www.wrightbus.com
Seagate Vice-president of operations: Dr Brian Burns Pre-tax profit: £11.7m Employment: 1,336 Pay bill: £49.8m
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ueen’s University spin-out Kainos has had an epic 2015 after floating on the London Stock Exchange last summer — making it the third of three NI listed companies. The company, 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. Kainos currently employs more than 700 staff across its Belfast, Londonderry, London, Bristol and Gdansk operations. Earlier this year it annoucned plans to double its workforce there. Kainos said rapid growth in the volume of global projects had led to the expansion.
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rights Group, based in Ballymena, and is one of Europe’s leading suppliers of accessible public transport vehicles. Formed in 1946 and still in private ownership, Wrights Group has earned a reputation for innovative vehicle designs, a large and innovative product portfolio and investment in advanced engineering. The company continues to expand its product range and markets. And it recently secured a contract to build 200 iconic New Routemaster buses for operation in London, bringing to 1,000 the total number of the buses it’s supplied to Transport for London.
1 Disc Drive Springtown Industrial Estate Londonderry BT48 0BF Tel: 028 7127 4000 www.seagate.com
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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 last year celebrated 20 years in Northern Ireland, is the largest factory of it type.
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. 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. Around 10 stores remain in Northern Ireland. 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.