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Opportunity for Businesses to Make BIG Contacts at All Island Networking Event
Friday 26.09.08

A special all-island networking event is offering renewable and sustainable businesses from across the island the opportunity to ‘Build Ireland Greener’ and make valuable contacts, all in one day and under one roof. The event takes place on 20th November 2008 in City North Hotel, Co Meath....

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INTERTRADEIRELAND’S INNOVA PROGRAMME ANNOUNCES €11M FUNDING FOR ALL-ISLAND R&D
Monday 22.09.08

Up to €1m each available for 17 North-South collaborative partnerships InterTradeIreland today announced €11m of funding support for Innova, its all-island collaborative R&D programme. Innova’s pilot phase funded eight cross-border projects for companies like Alltech, Dunbia, Biotrin, Randox, Aepona and Rococo....

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INTERTRADEIRELAND'S ALL-ISLAND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PROGRAMME IMPROVES COMPANIES' BOTTOM LINES
Thursday 18.09.08

Minister John McGuinness congratulates FUSION graduates   18th September – Thirty-nine students at the Smurfit Business School graduated today from a ground-breaking North/South programme that bridges the gap between business and academia. The Minister of State responsible for Trade and Commerce, Mr John McGuinness TD, praised the accomplishments of the graduates of the FUSION programme at the graduation ceremony at the Smurfit Business School in Dublin....

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NETWORK+GETWORK AIMS FOR 150 COMPANIES & £3M OF BUSINESS
Wednesday 17.09.08

The new, two-year, phase of InterTradeIreland’s Network+Getwork programme aims to help 150 companies across the island generate more than £3m worth of business, it was announced today. The programme, which gives small businesses North and South the opportunity to win contracts with some of the island’s biggest procurement organisations, has already helped 900 small companies generate more than £1....

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FINAL CALL TO ENTRY FOR €280,000 SEEDCORN PRIZE FUND
Wednesday 03.09.08

Young companies struggling to beat the credit crunch still have time to enter the all-island Seedcorn Business Competition and put themselves in with a chance of winning big cash prizes of between €20,000 and €100,000. And this year InterTradeIreland, the cross-border business development organisation which runs the competition, is calling for more local entries in the Emerging International Company category....

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An Tánaiste launches €10m InterTradeIreland Cross-Border Business Programme
Monday 16.06.08

The rationale for co-ordinated Government intervention to improve the economic prospects of all the citizens of the island was clear, An Tánaiste Mary Coughlan said yesterday as she launched a €10m cross-border business programme for InterTradeIreland. The new phase of the Acumen programme, which is also supported by Enterprise Ireland and Invest NI, aims to help 400 companies North and South over the next four years to expand into their respective cross-border markets and develop their export potential....

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Long-Term outlook for Business Remains Positive
Monday 16.06.08

Despite the weaker economic climate, business confidence for the future of an all-island economy remains resilient, with four out of every five respondents optimistic about their company’s performance over the next three years. The first Annual Report of the Business Monitor published today by BT and InterTradeIreland, shows that whilst 78 percent of business agreed or strongly agreed that the credit crunch would impact on the economy in the coming 12 months, the majority of these felt the impact would be moderate....

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First Food & Beverage Power House Puts All-island Business on the Menu
Wednesday 04.06.08

Caribbean cuisine, a funky new snack food for kids, a Fermanagh mineral water and a traceability solution were just some of the products on show at the first Food & Beverage Power House. Nearly 60 companies from North and South attended the InterTradeIreland event in Limerick on May 28 and 29 to learn more about all-island business to business opportunities....

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GIVE YOUR COMPANY LIFT-OFF WITH €280,000 SEEDCORN PRIZE FUND
Friday 23.05.08

Why not give your fledgling business lift-off with the help of a €280,000 prize fund from the 2008 Seedcorn Business Competition?' that's the message from InterTradeIreland. Small companies North and South have leveraged €65m of additional equity investment over the past five years through Seedcorn, which offers the biggest prize fund of any business competition on the island....

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GO-2-TENDER COMPANIES WIN £17M (c€21.25M) OF PUBLIC CONTRACTS
Friday 23.05.08

Around 130 companies across the island which have participated in the Go-2-Tender public procurement programme over the past two years have won contracts valued at nearly £17m(c€21.25m), according to InterTradeIreland. InterTradeIreland chairman Dr David Dobbin revealed the figure as the organisation launched a new, two-year phase of the programme, which is targeting 180 companies in Northern Ireland and Ireland....

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