WHILE Northern Ireland is forging a place as a destination for early stage technology companies to pursue rapid growth, less well known are the personal tax incentives offered to UK high net worth investors in such businesses.

SO there are these five monkeys in a cage.

NORTHERN Ireland offers small and medium-sized enterprises excellent opportunities for growth, prosperity and opportunity.

JUST last month a new park run started in the grounds of Stranmillis College in Belfast.

A DELEGATION of business federations and associations has shown remarkable unity of spirit and cause in a Northern Ireland-wide bid to secure some kind of concession from Westminster in its proposed EU withdrawal agreement which would protect our economy from the expected ravages of an otherwise chaotic departure from the European single market and customs union.

ARTICLE 50 as a roadmap has had many twists and turns, but the sat-nav is squawking, and we are due to take the next junction, Brexit.

PART of the reason Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google are sometimes collectively referred to as the FANGS is perhaps because they get their teeth into almost everything, from movies and groceries to family photos - and now the expanse that exists beyond the earth.

I remember the conversation so clearly.

AS the countdown to Brexit continues, the pressure is building and we vacillate between the possibility of no deal and a delay of two months.

“OUR energy bill in Northern Ireland last year was £9 million – it has been an Achilles heel for us” .

HAVING an agreed, formal succession plan is important for everyone.

IT is not often that we feel we are getting something for nothing, but with the introduction of an increase in the Annual Investment Allowance, it almost seems that we are nearly there.

Every business is a digital business… They just haven’t realised yet.

WHEN you walk around the city, there are many very visible things that can give you a clear indication of how the economy is performing.

SOMETIMES it’s hard to contemplate the lost productivity and the huge Brexit-related costs that have now become part of everyday life for both the public and private sectors.

WE currently face one of the most challenging political backdrops seen for a generation.

THE pressure is on. Speed is everything, and keeping your customers happy, servicing their needs well and winning new orders remain the key goals for most companies in Northern Ireland.

RETAIL conditions across Ireland have been difficult.

IN December, global equity markets endured the worst performance since the Great Depression.

THE 1998 article ‘The Experience Economy’ by B.