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TOP 100 Northern Ireland Companies 2016
NORTHERN IRELAND’S TOP 100 COMPANIES IN PROFILE
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Copeland Managing director: John McAfee Pre-tax profits: £2.5m Employees: 188 Pay bill: £5m
Lagan Technologies/Verint Director: David Moody Pre-tax profits: £2.5m Employees: 346 Pay bill: £16.7m
MJM Marine Chairman: Brian McConville Pre-tax profits: £2.4m Employees: 145 Pay bill: £5m
Charles Tennant NI Managing director: Robert Peden Pre-tax profits: £2.3m Employees: 60 Pay bill: £2.6m
Ballyreagh Industrial Estate Sandholes Road Cookstown Co Tyrone BT80 9DG Tel: 028 8676 0100 www.emerson.com
Concourse II Queens Road Queens Island Belfast BT3 9DT Tel: 028 9078 8300 www.verint.com
Carnbane Business Park Newry Co Down BT35 6QH Tel:028 3025 8450 www.mjm-group.com
9 Airport Road West Belfast BT3 9ED Tel: 028 9045 5135 www.ctni.co.uk
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Uni-trunk Managing director: Marcus Morrow Pre-tax profits: £2.3m Employees:171 Pay bill: £5m
GE Grid Solutions (ex-Kelman) Vice president of digital energy: John Lavelle Pre-tax profits: £2.3m Employees: 146 Pay bill: £7.2m
BA Kitchen Components Managing director: Brian McCracken Pre-tax profits: £2.3m Employees: 232 Pay bill: £6.3m
Lynas Foodservice Managing director: Andrew Lynas Pre-tax profits: £2.26m Employees: 340 Pay bill: £8.4m
Derryloran Industrial Estate Cookstown Co Tyrone BT80 9LU Tel: 028 8676 4600 www.byba.co.uk
Loughanhill Industrial Estate Gateside Road Coleraine BT52 2NR Tel: 028 70 350662 www.lynasfoodservice.com
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opeland Ltd is based in Cookstown and is part of Emerson – a $22.3bn (£15.2bn) US corporation which has approximately 130,000 employees and 240 manufacturing facilities worldwide. Copeland specialises in machining and assembly of scroll compressors for the refrigeration, air conditioning and renewable heat pump market segments. The Cookstown facility was opened in 1997 to supply more than 300 European customers a range of regionally optimised compressors at short lead times. Parent company Emerson offers products and services for industrial, commercial and consumer uses.
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4 Altona Road Lisburn BT27 5QB Tel: 028 92 625100 www.unitrunk.co.uk
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ni-trunk started out 50 years ago as a family-run engineering company. It then developed a specialised division manufacturing cable management systems in 1984. Its growth continued, and in 2000, it expanded and increased its cable management services when it acquired Vantrunk in Runcorn. The company provides complete cable management solutions and products from site survey, design, and manufacture to local distribution and international export. Its clients range from small local companies to multi-nationals. A strategic report with its most recent results said the company had “traded satisfactorily”.
agan was founded in 1994 and was acquired by KANA Software in 2010. The company develops and markets customer service software products for sale to government and commercial customers. In 2014, the company’s ultimate parent company was acquired by Nasdaq-listed firm Verint Systems. In accounts filed for the 13 months ending January 31 2015, pretax profits dropped to £997,467. In a strategic report accompanying the more recent results, the company said it expected its general level of activity to continue, and said it would keep investing in its people.
Lissue Industrial Estate Lisburn BT28 2RB Tel: 028 92622915 www.gedigitalenergy.com www.gegridsolutions.com
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E Grid Solutions – formerly Kelman – is an energy technology company in Lisburn which is owned by global company GE. It was founded by Northern Ireland man John Cunningham in 1994 and acquired by GE 14 years later. GE is one of the world’s leading providers of power generation equipment. The Lisburn operation develops technology for electricity grids and has developed a new type of transformer.
JM was founded in Newry around 33 years ago, and has grown into a major business renowned for the refurbishment of cruise liners, ferries, yachts and buildings. Its marine arm has had a string of major successes, with turnover expected to reach £50m. In 2014 it carried out a multimillion project on Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Sea. It has also carried out work for Carnival Cruise Lines, Residensea’s The World, P&O Cruises and Star Cruises. Brian McConville was named Businessperson of the Year at this the Belfast Telegraph Business Awards In Association with British Airways.
A Components was set up in 1990 in Magherafelt and now operates from three large production facilities in Cookstown, Doncaster and Rotherham. It was set up by Brian McCracken and his twin Kieran and has grown into a multi-million pound business employing nearly 300 people. It supplies products to 24 countries around the world. It manufactures high-quality kitchen and bathroom components and has grown substantially in the last 10 years. In January it acquired a facility in Belgium which allows assembly without tools. That company is now being moved to Rotherham. BA said it’s looking forward to its next 25 years.
harles Tennant NI is a firm operating in a number of different business areas, including the distribution of chemicals. It currently trades as four divisions within Charles Tennant & Co (NI) Ltd. That includes bitumen, building products, chemicals and fertiliser. It is part of the Tennant Group, which is currently active in the UK, Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, United States, Canada and China, mainly in the manufacture and distribution of chemicals. Charles Tennant was a weaver by trade who patented the process of using lime and chlorine gas to bleach linen in 1788. It opened an office in Belfast in 1805, to capitalise on the linen trade, and has operated here ever since.
ynas Foodservice in Coleraine now supplies over 6,000 different products throughout Ireland and has built on its range to include tableware, cleaning and hygiene and specialist food categories Asian and Mexican. Lynas also offer an in house meat brand in Causeway Prime and has opened outlets in Coleraine, Belfast and Londonderry, extending its supply network. The company has grown significantly over recent years and rebranded in 2015, adopting the brand promise ‘delivering you more’. It also launches a new online platform this year, with the aim to remaining at the forefront of its sector.