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Preventing pollution
Guides summarising your legal responsibilities for preventing pollution and best practice methods to achieve compliance
Hazardous substances and waste
Guides which detail your legal responsibilities for hazardous substances and hazardous waste in your business
Waste and recycling industry
Guides on legal frameworks for waste businesses and the ways to reduce the overall impact of waste on the environment
Metal production and processing
Guides which help you to understand your environmental responsibilities when manufacturing metal
Paper and cardboard manufacturing
Guides on how paper and cardboard manufacturing businesses can improve their environmental performance and compliance
Manage business finances
Guides on why managing finance is an important part of starting and running your business
Family business
Understand the benefits and issues that affect family-run businesses, employing family members or financing from friends and family
Start-up business ideas
Guides and tools to help you find and develop ideas for ways to start up your own business in Northern Ireland
Hire professional services
Guides on how and why to hire professional service providers to help your business in the startup phase
Business planning
Guides on how to create a business plan for your startup and how business plans can be useful at different stages of your business
Tourism
Guidance on starting and growing a tourism business, legal requirements and getting a tourism business certified, quality grading, niche tourism opportunities, selling online and using resources efficiently
Starting a business - find a case study
A range of case studies from local entrepreneurs who have started successful businesses
Sales and marketing - find a case study
Examples of businesses in Northern Ireland who have overcome sales and marketing challenges
Discrimination and equality in tourism businesses
Disability and discrimination laws for accommodation providers and what they mean for your business.
Starting my business from home - Angels and Butterflies Jewellery Designs (video)
Debbie Todd, owner of Angels and Butterflies Jewellery Designs, discusses how she started her business from home
What is a cartel?
An overview of how a cartel is defined by law and the penalties you and your business could face if it trades in one
Competition law
Understand how the Competition Act 1998 and the Enterprise Act 2002 affect your business
Price-fixing and other anti-competitive agreements
The law relating to price fixing and other agreements between businesses to restrict competition
Types of stock
The four main types of stock - raw materials and components, work in progress, finished goods and consumables
How much stock should you keep?
Advantages and disadvantages of keeping either plenty of stock or very little