An unknown artist has made a spectacular breakthrough by producing a painting fit for the walls of David Cameron’s Downing Street offices.

25 new jobs are to be created by an IT services company.

Manufacturing giant Caterpillar has announced a major £7m (€8.2m) investment at its factories in the North.

The government is 100% behind bringing Northern Ireland’s corporation tax to the Republic’s low level.

Business and community leaders have broadly welcomed the British Government’s economic pact which aims to rebalance the North's beleaguered economy and tackle sectarian division.

A Co Armagh pharmaceutical firm is to create 229 jobs.

Up to 650 new jobs are to be created by technology company Allstate, it was confirmed today.

Almost 180 new jobs are being created at a Co Tyrone meat processing plant.

The company which supplied halal food found to contain traces of pork DNA was named today.

Up to 760 jobs are to be axed by a major engineering company in the North, it was announced yesterday.

The North's struggling economy was rocked today with the loss of 760 jobs at one of its main manufacturing firms.

Up to 760 jobs are to be axed by a major engineering company in the North, it was announced today.

He is also a board member of Gemalto NV and sits on the audit committee and the strategy and M&A committee.

The North's Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster is seeking an urgent meeting over the Superquinn acquisition which threatens to leave companies in the North out of pocket.

The worst riots for years in Belfast were not sparked by a lack of investment, the North's Finance Minister said.

Almost 250 new jobs are being created at a major bio-technology company in Co Antrim.

More than 500 new financial services jobs are being created in the North, it was announced today.

THE opening of a near £100 million (€120m) Coca-Cola manufacturing plant in Co Antrim will yield long-term economic benefits for the North, political leaders claimed.

More than 100 jobs are to be created through a multimillion-pound expansion of an eco-friendly energy business in Lisburn, it was announced today.

Almost 100 high-tech jobs are to be created by a £60m (€69m) investment in a Derry technology firm, it was announced today.

Business process outsourcing company, Firstsource has announced 150 new jobs in Derry city for a contract with a new telecommunications client.

DUBLIN-based telecommunication equipment supplier Intune Networks has secured €22 million in funding from a diverse range of backers including financier Dermot Desmond, Enterprise Ireland and venture capital firm Kernel Capital.

More than 30 firms from the Republic and the North take part in one of the biggest trade missions to Russia this week.

Almost £2.5m (€2.67m) is to be spent expanding a new business park in the North, it was announced today.

A Co Tyrone company today stood the economic gloom on its head and celebrated clinching the biggest deal in its 25-year history.

The North's Executive was challenged today to bring about a sea change in how manufacturing was supported, promoted and partnered.

A US investment creating jobs in the North will be announced today just as more than 100 American corporate chiefs arrive for an investment conference.

A five-star hotel in the North has apparently been told to keep some of its foreign staff away from business delegates attending a major US investment summit, it emerged today.

A tiny Co Tyrone technology company has cracked the Chinese internet market to win a prestige multi-million pound contract, it was announced today.

Around 900 workers in a technology factory facing closure later this year could receive job training as they continue to put in shifts, it emerged today.

Ballymena based bus builder the Wright Group is creating over 50 jobs in a new high-tech subsidiary, it was announced today.

Senior officials from the North's economic development agency were on their way to the US tonight to plead for the jobs of over 250 workers at a medical equipment company facing redundancy.

Three times as many of the North's budding entrepreneurs sought advice from friends and family before starting up a business than obtained advice from support agencies like Invest NI, it was revealed today.

Aerospace firms from both sides of the border aiming to cut deals at the Paris Airshow this week.

IT giant Fujitsu is to create more than 400 jobs in the North, it has been announced.

The North's future prosperity hangs on its ability to create and sustain a high value-added and internationally competitive export-led economy, the chairman of the province’s economic development agency said today.

A Bridging the Border event was held in Dublin yesterday to showcase the research and innovation support on offer to small and medium-sized companies in both the Republic of Ireland and the North.

A French-owned engineering company is creating 50 aerospace jobs in Belfast, it was announced today.

THE ambitious new plan to marry the economies of the North and the Republic will, depending on one’s political viewpoint, be seen either as an enlightened vision of Ireland in the 21st century or a poisoned chalice.

Co Tyrone materials handling company is more than doubling its workforce as part of a £3m (€4.5m) plus expansion scheme, it was announced today.

A group of cross border trade delegates today began a four-day mission to Canada.

Jobs were being lost faster than they were being created despite hundreds of millions of pounds being invested by the North’s economic development agency during its first three years in operation, it was revealed today.

An Indian call centre company has chosen Derry as the base for the majority of 1,000 jobs it plans to create in the North, it announced today.