SDG, based in Armagh, is one of the main suppliers of a wide range of essential products to the Building and Construction Industry in Ireland.  We have been working with SDG for over 10 years and were delighted when they approached us to re-design and build their new website to more accurately reflect the wide range of services and products on offer.

This was no mean feat, considering the site contains over 250 pages and covers not only the main company (SDG Construction Technology), but also 3 additional divisions within the organisation (SDG Acoustic and Vibration Control; SDG Precast Technology and SDG Structural Waterproofing).

As well as including links to the company’s social media sites, we will also be working with SDG on their SEO and digital marketing strategies. The site went live this month and we look forward to continuing to work with SDG throughout 2012.

Click here to visit the site and see what we did.

Having designed and developed a new website for Lagan Construction in 2011, we were delighted to hear that they won a £45 million deal yesterday to deliver civil and building infrastructure works at a major new energy-from-waste plant being developed near Ipswich.

The contract was awarded by recycling and resource management company SITA UK in October 2010 to CNIM/Lagan JV as part of their £1 billion PFI deal with Suffolk County Council to develop an energy-from-waste facility to manage the county’s residual household waste.

Lagan Construction will work with their French based process partner CNIM on the project at Great Blakenham which has an overall construction value of £150 million. The scheme received planning consent on 21^st July 2011.  Work is expected to start on site in early 2012 with the energy-from-waste facility likely to be up and running by December 2014.

We are delighted to kick-start 2012 with some great news.  We have recently been appointed as the new graphic design partner for Sport Northern Ireland having won a competitive tender at the end of 2011.

As the leading public body for developing sport in Northern Ireland, Sport NI has a vital role to play [in partnership with the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL)] to deliver on Sport Matters: The Northern Ireland Strategy for Sport and Physical Recreation, 2009-2019.

We are really excited to work with the Sport NI team, which will also see us working with other Sport NI groups such as Tollymore National Outdoor Centre and the prestigious Sports Institute for Northern Ireland (SINI), a partnership between Sport NI and the University of Ulster based on the Jordanstown campus of the University of Ulster.

We have been busy over the last months working closely with our client Solvar (a leader in the design and manufacture of Destination and Heritage jewellery), on a few exciting new projects.  These include the design and development of new packaging for their jewellery ranges and the refresh and re-launch of a number of existing brands.

The hard work will culminate in some of the new and refreshed brands and packaging being launched at this years Showcase event in Dublin. In addition, we also designed the backdrops for the Showcase exhibition stand as well as a series of POS materials to support the brands.

We started the New Year off with the launch of our latest video for Top Fruit on the 1st of January.

The video entitled “New Year New You” is sure to strike a chord with many people. Have you ever started previous New Years with the resolution “must do more exercise” only to fail after the first month, or even week?!  Have you ever forked out on expensive gym equipment that never gets used?

If so, go to Top Fruit’s Facebook page and tell everyone what you REALLY use your old gym equipment for.  You could be in with a chance of winning 1000 euro. Good Luck!

[This is an article originally published online in the Women In Business NI November Ezine on Monday 28th November 2011]

With over 100 years combined knowledge the print management team in Pierce Communications is one of the most experienced around.

Print & Procurement Director, and recent WIBNI Member, Angie Brown, leads a team of 6 who specialise in providing cost-effective and hassle-free print management solutions for a diverse range of public, private and not-for-profit clients across Northern Ireland. Customers include Coca-Cola, The Fire Service of Northern Ireland, Action Cancer and the Department for Employment and Learning (DEL).

It was a great night last night, at the CIM Ireland Marketing Excellence Awards, which took place at the Belfast City Hall.

The standard was particularly high this year, and well done goes to all finalists and winners.

We were very proud to have won “Best Brand Development Campaign” along with our client Fleet Financial. Additionally, Fleet Financial also won 1st prize in the “Service Sector – Business to Business” category, while another of our clients, Sepha, was “Highly Commended” in the “Chemicals, Plastics, Pharmaceuticals and Related Industries” category.

Many congratulations to both Sepha and Fleet Financial on a fantastic result.