Case Studies
Carving out a New Business Venture
2020, lockdown. Pat Brown began thinking about starting his own business. A carpenter for over 30 years, he enjoyed the personal sales experience with customers and had started doing small orders for bespoke furniture and leather wallets, for friends and family, as a...
Life Imitates Art – North Coast Inspires Abstract Painting Business
Palette Design Art allows individuals to style their space with made to order pieces that are inspired by the abstract colours and the textures of the coast. Claire Smyth is the woman and artist behind this creative business palette. Her work is a love story, born in...
Providing a Splash of Colour to Child Development
“Colouring is so much more than a fun activity. It encourages child development.” Founder of The Little Crayon Company, Karla-Jayne Murdock wears a lot of hats. Product Developer, Crayon Maker, Packaging Department, Social Media Manager, Sales, part-time Home...
Adding the Frosting to a Sweet New Business in Coleraine
Specialising in all things sweet, CeCe's Cakes and Bakes in Coleraine, offers vegan, gluten free and dairy free options daily, with plenty of seating to relax after some shopping, catch up with family or friends or simply to have some time to yourself. Custom...
Just another day at the paw-ffice for Alpha 1
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Black Heath Pottery Seized the Clay
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It’s all smiles for Pure Dental
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Young Entrepreneur Makes Success Of Coleraine Cafe
As a young boy, Robert Wiggins was obsessed with pulling out all of his mum’s pots and pans and cooking for himself. Little wonder then that this very affable young man has ended up running his own eaterie in Coleraine. Situated in the market beside the railway...
Enterprising Youth Worker Uses Programme To Short ‘Circuit’ Career Journey
With personal fitness and the desire to reclaim health and wellbeing high on many people’s agendas post-pandemic, one enterprising youth worker has decided to fulfil a lifetime ambition of opening his own circuit classes. But, as with many other entrepreneurs, while...
Portglenone Physiotherapist Launches New Business
According to the British Pain Society, almost ten million people in the United Kingdom are in pain every day. So it’s little wonder that Brianne O’Neill’s services are in increasing demand. Indeed, the County Antrim physiotherapist, who previously worked across...
Exploring Enterprise Programme supports Angie Kelly Designs
The Exploring Enterprise Programme supports local business, Angie Kelly Designs Angie’s Start up Story: Angie’s entrepreneurial journey with Causeway Enterprise Agency began in 2011, when she returned from working overseas for 20 years; she left these shores in 1992...
Nurturing growth and motivation for greater success
‘It’s all about the cow!’ explains Gareth Wilson. Wilson Agri was the first importer of cow mattresses into Europe in 1994 and today they supply everything to ensure that the cow has a clean dry comfortable bed, with clean fresh water and air, with reduced pressure...
Lighting up the future
Textile designer Olive Rankin established LoveOlli in 2012 with the simple desire to create inspiring and unique candles and accessories with a vintage twist. Four years on, the business was experiencing relative success supplying 200...
Seeing a dream come true in the community
Established in 2012 in Coleraine, Hope and Gloria is a community enterprise vintage themed lifestyle store with a coffee shop selling fashion, furniture, homewares and accessories. It is operated by Causeway Coast Vineyard with profits...
Supplying blooming inspiration
For over 25 years, Garth Mahood has been “supplying inspiration” from his shop in Coleraine to thousands of professional and hobby florists all over the world. Established in 1998, Floristry Warehouse is a UK and Ireland based worldwide suppliers of florist supplies,...
Leading the artisan way
Crusoes Coffee Shop is the creation of local artist Roger Robinson. With a love for good food and local produce, Roger spent time travelling across Europe and to New Zealand to find the very best recipes for his coffee shop, which he...
Just Jemima and the journal
We all have madcap ideas from time to time, but how many of us take the time to write them down? Lorna Kyle did, scribbling a note in her journal about a business based around a mobile craft workshop for children’s parties. It was years later...
Coucon has everything covered
It’s time for home and here you are flapping about on one leg like some frustrated Flamingo, desperately attempting to extricate yourself from a wet swim suit or trunks whilst the family next to you on the beach averts their eyes. It was just...
Marianne’s faithful to the Fifties
Daisy Mae Boutique…where the past makes the perfect present “They deal with people in business day in, day out, but they made me feel like I was the only business that had walked through their door. They made me feel like I was special.” For Marianne Blaney, owner of...
Falling for North Coast Smokehouse…hook, line, and sinker
“…fine, true artisan foods: taste them once, and you want them in your life.” Irish Food Writers, John and Sally McKenna. It’s not just renowned food critics who salivate at the mere mention of North Coast Smokehouse - a whole new generation of people, from all walks...
Glenara Elite Travel is a busman’s holiday for Frances
Ten years ago, Frances Galbraith took a year out from her job with Ulster Bus, packed her bags and travelled the world. Where many leave these shores never to return, seduced by chilled out Thailand, Aussie beach culture, or the bright lights of the Big Apple, it had...
Babushka…much more than a daily grind
If Babushka was any closer to the sea, they’d need to supply customers with life jackets. Perched on the pier beside Portrush’s West Strand this tiny but increasingly influential kitchen café is at the forefront of a north coast food and drink revolution. At the...
Community leadership, the cooperative way
The North Coast hasn't had a brewery since the 1980s. That is until Lacada Brewery was set up in October 2015. But, this is a business with a difference - a craft beer co-operative brewery with origins in a love of beer and brewing, a love of...
Designing a New Future
Allprint Design & Print is a well-established label printing company established in 2002 and has built up an enviable reputation over the last 10 years. The company owner Norman Malcolmson is proud of his commitment to providing a...
The Gates are Open for Success!
Don't fence yourself in Damian Rodgers is an experienced metalworking engineer with expertise in railings, gates and maintenance of industrial equipment. Damian became unemployed in May 2014. He reviewed his situation and felt the best...
Fishing for the future!
Established in 1998 by William and Stephanie Holmes, Moorbrook Lodge Trout Fishery in Castlerock has gone from strength to strength over the last 16 years. And, with a Venture Causeway investment of £10,000 awarded to the fishery in 2013,...
Businessman’s Agri Wi-Fi To Transform Farming
A TEMPLEPATRICK businessman has developed new technology for the agricultural industry which could also have major positive implications for the rest of the world. Dr Aaron McConnell, of IT solutions company Vynomic Ltd, has created...
A bright future for The Arcadia!
Once the place to be for dancing the night away, and then vacant for many years the iconic building that is The Arcadia in Portrush has enjoyed a new lease of life over the past five years, thanks to Tanya Gillen. Having already launched a...
Artificial is simply the Best!
The next time you source a hard-to-find item, think twice, as it might just reveal a gap in the market for a great business idea… That’s precisely what happened to Maurice Lucas in 2009, when he went hunting for a few artificial trees for his...
Signs of Success
Brothers, Connory and Damian McGill, fulfilled their career ambitions when they launched Sign-It Design in 1998 with the help of Causeway Enterprise Agency. With Damian working in London and Connory creating CAD (computer-aided design) drawings...
Self-employment is Child’s Play for Danielle
Exploring Enterprise Helps Mumpreneur Realise her Dream of Starting up a Daycare Nursery in Articlave Lots of women will relate to the story of Danielle caldwell, mum of 2; who pressed pause on her career to have a family only to discover that returning to work would...
It’s Feet First into Self-employment for Beverley
The Future is Bright for Coleraine Woman Exploring Enterprise Coleraine woman, Beverley Ward is one of many candidates from Coleraine who are reaping the benefits of a programme to help long-term unemployed people to get back into work and get...
Denron Products and Mud Buster cleans up at the North West 200
Denron Products owner Ronnie Young launched his new bike cleaner and degreaser “Mud-Buster” at the NW200 with the support of Invest NI’s Growth Programme at Causeway Enterprise Agency. Ronnie Young of Denron Products commented: “My cleaning...
Business is blooming with support from the Regional Start Initiative
Starting a new business can be a challenge but if you have the right amount of experience and support, success may not be far away, as Coleraine-based florist Jill Peterson discovered when she set up her business “The Stables Flower Co”. Jill...
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