Business

Shares in Quiz plunge after warning over need for extra funding

The retailer said it saw a ‘marked decline’ in demand in its stores and online last month.

Belfast consumer goods group SHS acquires mid-strength craft beer brand Shandy Shack

Oxfordshire-based brewery is latest addition to SHS Drinks portfolio

Coastal communities in north to benefit from £100,000 grant

NI Maritime & Offshore (NIMO) among nine UK maritime clusters to receive a share of £1m in government funding

Lidl doubles its profit in Northern Ireland operation to £22m

Retailer reports 100% increase in pre-tax profit as it prepares to open 43rd store in the north

New car sales in north slide into reverse in November

SMMT figures reveal double-digit falls in registrations of new petrol and diesel cars

‘There’s no Guinness shortage here’ publicans assure drinkers

Diageo warns that supply will be limited in lead-up to Christmas

US doughnut chain Krispy Kreme set to open first Northern Ireland outlet at Victoria Square

Food group submit plans for former jewellery unit at Belfast shopping complex

InterTradeIreland ‘has helped 60,000 businesses generate £1.7bn in cross-border trade’

Body established under the Good Friday Agreement says cross-border trade now at an all-time high

93% of homes in north can now access full-fibre broadband - Ofcom

Average broadband download speeds to 760,000 homes in Northern Ireland are the highest in the UK

Shell and Equinor tie-up to create new UK oil and gas producer

Shell said no jobs will be lost but that the deal was in recognition that the North Sea is ‘no longer the prolific basin that it once was’.