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Start a retail business
An overview of starting a retail business in Northern Ireland, looking at the challenges, the support available and the possible rewards
Types of retail business
The various types of retail business, including convenience store, speciality store, supermarket, discount store, department store, warehouse, direct retailer and online store
Retail start-up support
How to find the right financial and advisory support to start your retail business in Northern Ireland
Ten top tips for starting a retail business
Ten top tips to starting a retail business successfully and staying afloat in the early days of trading
Where to set up your retail business
Find the right place to set up your retail business in Northern Ireland by weighing the important options
Rules for selling fireworks legally
Once you are registered as a firework retailer in Northern Ireland, there are rules you must follow including age restrictions and packaging.
Fireworks categories and your business
Fireworks categories F1, F2, F3 and F4, what they mean and your responsibilities as a fireworks retailer for safe storage and sale of fireworks in each category.
Storing fireworks safely at your premises
How to store fireworks safely at your business premises and your responsibilities as a retailer under manufacture and storage of explosives legislation.
Marketing your product or service overseas
Ideas for how to market your product or service overseas.
Starting a business as an entrepreneur with a disability - Little Grooming pet studio (video)
Claire Hamilton discusses the challenges and rewards of starting a business as an entrepreneur with a disability
Running a business as an entrepreneur with a disability - Omagh Music Academy (video)
Claire Bowes discusses some of the support and advice available for disabled entrepreneurs to start and run a business
Starting a social enterprise - SlackPress (video)
How SlackPress developed into a self-sufficient social enterprise that engages with the local community
Qualifying for EORI
How branches and divisions will be identified under the Economic Operator Registration and Identification system
Who needs an EORI number?
AEO status and other requirements, and the format of the EORI number
How will my EORI number be used?
Pre-arrival and pre-departure information, transit procedures and other uses
Access to your EORI information
Access your EORI information and find out how the data is kept
How to improve your suppliers' environmental performance
Make sure that all your suppliers are managing and improving their environmental performance
Environmental review staff interviews
How to talk to key people in order to understand the environmental performance of your business
Setting environmental targets
Setting targets so that you can measure your business' improvements from the environmental baseline
Acting on your environmental review
An action plan provides the method through which environmental improvements are achieved