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TOP 100 Northern Ireland Companies 2016
NORTHERN IRELAND’S TOP 100 COMPANIES IN PROFILE
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Golf Holdings Chief executive: Patrick Hunt Pre-tax profits: £2.9m Employees: 1,567 Pay bill: £21.3m
Macnaughton Blair Chief executive: Peter Kearney Pre-tax profits: £2.8m Employees: 474 Pay bill: £12.8m
Larne Harbour General manager: Roger Armson Pre-tax profits: £2.8m Employees: 30 Pay bill: £1m
Haldane Shiells Chief executive: Ian Haldane Pre-tax profits: £2.7m Employees: 465 Pay bill: £12.1m
Duncrue Industrial Estate, Belfast BT3 9BU Tel: 028 9074 6274 www.winemark.com
10 Falcon Road Belfast BT12 6RD Tel: 028 9038 5363 www.macblair.com
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acnaughton Blair is a major supplier of building materials to the construction and DIY sectors and part of Grafton Group. The group also includes specialist brands such as MB Architectural, MB Civils, MB Hire, Watershed Bathrooms and Moffett Thallon Doorways. Across the group, there are 19 branches in Northern Ireland, eight in England and one in the Isle of Man. Pre-tax profits for 2014 were more than double those of 2013 – which the company’s strategic report said coincided with overall economic improvements in business activity, employment and exports, as well as improvement in the housing market.
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9 Olderfleet Road Larne Co Antrim BT40 1AS. Tel: 028 2887 2100. www.portoflarne.co.uk
Shepherd Way, Carnbane Industrial Estate, Newry BT35 6QQ Tel: 028 3026 3201 www.haldane-fisher.com
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D Shannon Stewart/Gordons Chemists Managing director: Robert Gordon Pre-tax profits: £2.7m Employees: 645 Pay bill: £10.5m
Natural World Products Managing director: Caolan Woods Pre-tax profits: £2.6m Employees: 80 Pay bill: £2.2m
Coolkeeragh ESB Chief executive: Pat O’Donerty Pre-tax profits: £2.55m Employees: 0 Pay bill: 0
Jenkins Shipping Group Director: Eddie Irvine Pre-tax profits: £2.5m Employees: 180 Pay bill: £4.9m
74 Scarva Road Banbridge BT32 3QD Tel: 028 40 669000 www.gordonsdirect.com
32 Glenside Road Dunmurry BT17 0LH Tel: 028 90 600145 www.nwp-recycle.co.uk
2 Electra Road MaydownLondonderry BT47 6UL Tel: 028 7186 4700 www.esbi.ie
13 West Bank Road Belfast BT3 9JL Tel: 028 9074 8912 www.jenkins-shipping.com
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olf Holdings is the parent company of a number of firms involved in the drinks and hospitality industry in Northern Ireland. These include Wine Inns, Winemark, and James E McCabe. Wine Inns has an extensive portfolio of some of the most popular bars and clubs in Belfast and surrounding areas, while Winemark is the brand name of a chain of off-licences. James E McCabe is one of the longest established and best known wine companies in the province. Wine Inns recently revamped its Chelsea Wine Bar in south Belfast and the nightclub once known as the M-Club — now renamed Alibi.
ordons Chemists began as a single pharmacy more than 30 years ago in Donaghadee, Northern Ireland. Today, its runs more than 60 pharmacies on the high street and in shopping centres across Northern Ireland and Scotland. In the most recent year to March 2015, the company further developed its business by further acquisition of extra outlets while consolidating the acquisitions of earlier years. The company also has an online store, Gordons Direct. A strategic report by the company’s directors which accompanied its most recent results said that they were satisifed with performance and did not expect any major changes.
atural World Products is a major waste management and recyling firm and works with public and private sector clients. It works to a number of recycling and landfill diversion targets. In recent years the company has been exporting alternative fuels out of Northern Ireland and has sent over 200,000 tonnes of refuse-derived fuel to energy from waste plants in Europe. It said its “vision and innovation” had allowed local authorities and ratepayers to avoid penalties for failing to meet recycling targets. It sold its general waste division last year and now specialises in treating and recycling organic waste streams or ‘biowastes’. The company has facilities in Belfast and Keady, Co Armagh.
arne Harbour belongs to ferry company P&O Ferries, which operates a link to Cairnryan in Scotland from the port. P&O also owns Cairnryan A strategic report for the company accompanying its last set of accounts described the results and trading prospects as “satisfactory,” adding: “Economic conditions, as Northern Ireland has lagged behind the UK recovery, have meant that there has been little growth (in its core ferry business).” The port has benefited from the updating of the new dual carriageway from Belfast, which cut the journey to Larne to 20 minutes.
he Coolkeeragh ESB gas-fired electricity generating plant, owned by the Irish parent company ESB, is the second largest source of electricity generated in Northern Ireland. The Londonderry-based company has shown healthy profits for most of the last seven years and has reduced its outstanding borrowing. The company is unusual as it reports that it has no employees. This may mean that the cost of employees is carried through another company in the group and is a cost through inter-company transfers. The company trades as part of the allisland Single Electricity Market.
aldane Fisher a major leading supplier to the construction industry in the UK and Ireland, serving trade customers, self builders and the general public. Haldane Fisher is part of the Haldane Shiells Group, made up of Haldane Fisher NI, Haldane Fisher Isle of Man, and GE Robinson in North West England. The business has grown organically and through acquisition since it was founded by Bob Haldane in 1946. The group supplies everything from building materials to plumbing and heating, home improvement products to internal finish such as kitchens, bathrooms, doors and floors.
enkins Shipping Group is a privatelyowned company which has been operating in the ports industry for 30 years. Ex-Formula 1 driver Eddie Ervine is a part-owner of the firm, a holding company for a number of subsidiaries operating in shipping, warehousing, distribution of paper and timber products, and a labour agency for port services. In a strategic report, the company said it was confident that sales would increase in the most recent financial year, thanks to the maintenance of current margins and growth for new business. The company also has bases in Liverpool, Hull, Newry, Bristol, Sheerness in Kent, Sunderland and Manchester.