Ian Smyth sits down with Seating Matters to learn about the importance of quality seating in healthcare and their commitment to it as a family business. Martina Tierney and her son Martin discuss building products …
Continue ReadingThe Faces of Family Business – Season 2 Episode 3: 4Beauty Group
4Beauty Group’s Shelley Martin joins Ian Smyth to discuss her journey as a second generation family business owner. Taking up the mantle from her mother, Shelley discusses the challenges of creating a sustainable beauty industry, …
Continue ReadingThe Faces of Family Business – Season 2 Episode 2: Linwoods Health Foods
Linwoods founder John Woods is joined by his son Patrick to explore his personal connection to the health food business. Ian Smyth hosts a fascinating discussion on legacy, politics, and sustainability as this family business …
Continue ReadingThe Faces of Family Business – Season 2 Episode 1: Mount Charles
The Faces of Family Business returns as Darren McDowell interviews the father-son duo behind home-grown facilities management business Mount Charles. Trevor and Gavin Annon discuss how they’ve kept their family roots intact while employing over …
Continue ReadingThe Faces of Family Business – Episode 6: Lynas Foodservice
In the final episode of The Faces of Family Business season one, Ian Smyth is joined by Andrew Lynas of Lynas Foodservice. Managing a third-generation family business with nearly seventy years’ worth of history, Andrew …
Continue ReadingThe Faces of Family Business – Episode 5: Menarys
In the penultimate episode of this series of The Faces of Famil Business, Darren McDowell talks to Stephen McCammon about running a successful department store chain, being involved with your community, the importance of store …
Continue ReadingThe Faces of Family Business – Episode 4: Long Meadow
From the planting of a single apple tree in 1968 to a blossoming family business, Long Meadow has long provided Northern Ireland with ciders, juice, and apple cider vinegar from its family farm in Armagh. …
Continue ReadingThe Faces of Family Business – Episode 3: Henry Brothers
Darren McDowell talks to Ian Henry, David Henry and Julie McKeown about the history of Henry Brothers Construction and the growth of the wider Henry Group. The Faces of Family Business offers a rare opportunity …
Continue ReadingThe Faces of Family Business – Episode 2: McKeever Hotels
The McKeever family talk about the challenges and rewards that come with running a successful chain of hotels. Ian Smyth chats to Eugene McKeever MBE, Catherine McKeever, Eddie McKeever and Bridgene Keeley. The Faces of …
Continue ReadingThe Faces of Family Business – Episode 1 – Morelli Ice Cream
From humble homemade beginnings in a Coleraine cafe to a multi-award winning ice cream empire, the generation-spanning Morelli family story began over a century ago. Since 1911, Morelli Ice Cream has remained a pillar of …
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