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Furniture manufacturing transport efficiency
How better transport management can help furniture manufacturers reduce costs and help the environment.
Furniture manufacturing energy efficiency
How better energy management can enable furniture manufacturers to reduce costs and help the environment.
Dealing with furniture manufacturing waste
How furniture manufacturing businesses can work to reduce or eliminate their waste in a cost-effective way.
Furniture manufacturing resource efficiency
How furniture manufacturers can cut costs and waste by using materials, water and energy more efficiently.
Reducing environmental impact of furniture manufacturing
Furniture manufacturing tips for reducing resource usage, more efficient manufacturing processes and less chemical use.
Grow your retail business
Find out how to improve your retail business, attract more customers and grow your sales through tactics like visual merchandising and online retail.
Business acquisitions and mergers
Mergers. Mergers and acquisitions.
How to market your retail business
How to successfully market your retail business in a changing world, looking at traditional advertising, sponsorships, partnerships and digital marketing.
Retail business networking
Get your retail business known in the local community and across Northern Ireland and beyond by engaging in local networking events and activities like CSR.
Advantages and disadvantages of online retailing
Online retail has advantages and disadvantages for businesses with huge growth potential balanced against initial costs and security and legal issues.
Support for growing a retail business
Starting or improving a retail business can attract certain financial, training and advisory support in Northern Ireland, find out which organisations can help.
Explore new retail opportunities
Growing your retail business takes a good business plan as well as spotting and exploiting the right opportunities, discover the options for expanding.
Growing a retail business - Cunningham Butchers & Food Hall (video)
James Cunningham, Managing Director of Cunningham Butchers & Food Hall, explains how they successfully grew their retail business.
Retail
Guidance on getting started in retail, improving your retail business, running a retail premises, retail and the environment, business finances and the law, and employing people in retail
Manage health and safety when running events
What you should consider regarding health and safety when you are running events, including organisation, site suitability, facilities and emergency planning.
Event health and safety: planning for emergencies
Planning for incidents and emergencies if you are an event organiser, including creating an emergency plan, evacuation procedures and handing over to the emergency services.
Event health and safety: important contacts
As an event organiser, you should keep in touch with organisations such as your local council, the PSNI, the fire brigade, first aid providers, the ambulance service and your insurer.
Event health and safety: planning an event
How to plan, manage and organise a safe event including risk assessment, training, monitoring and review
Event site and venue health and safety
Health and safety considerations for the site and venue of events, including design, risks, facilities, crowd management and transport.
Event health and safety: top tips
Top tips for running events safely include carrying out a risk assessment, planning for emergencies, managing the flow of traffic and crowds, and working with local organisations.