Wrightbus
Antrim bus company Wrightbus set to create hundreds more jobs
Ballymena-based business was rescued from administration in 2019
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Wrightbus wins Stagecoach order for zero-emission buses
Ballymena group to deliver 48 double decker buses for use in London by the end of the year
Being boss of Wrightbus – ‘It was a big risk at the time: this isn’t Tesla’
Buta Atwal has led a resurgence at the Ballymena busmaker that collapsed in 2019
Antrim firm Wrightbus to create up to 300 permanent jobs
Company will also convert 120 existing temporary jobs into permanent positions
Hydrogen evangelist sees ‘dawning of an age’
JCB heir Jo Bamford aims to change public transport with Ballymena firm Wrightbus
Hydrogen-powered bus takes to streets of Dublin
Vehicle being trialled over coming weeks ahead of extensive rollout of such buses in 2021
Wrightbus delivers world’s first hydrogen double-deckers in Aberdeen
Ballymena bus-builder rescued from administration last year
Johnson backed into a corner despite rare Commons win
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Bamford closes deal to acquire Wrightbus out of administration
Businessman to employ 60 initially as he assesses prospects for Ballymena bus maker
Tyrone company wins Ryanair bus contract
Engineering firm to deliver 32 vehicles in ‘multi-million pound’ deal
Ballymena busbuilder looks at unsure road ahead
Cantillon: Bamford buys Wrightbus but how many jobs will survive in business blackspot?
Wrightbus saved from liquidation as deal agreed
Owner Jeff Wright and entrepreneur Jo Bamford agree terms
Rescue deal for Wrightbus rejected by company controlled by founder’s son
Bidder warns busbuilder faces liquidation as early as tomorrow if no deal approved
Wrightbus administrators in exclusive talks with one buyer
Jo Bamford specialises in providing hydrogen fuel for buses
Harland and Wolff workers return to shipyard
Employees cheered asthey make their way back to work at historic shipyard in Belfast
Four interested parties in talks to buy Wrightbus
Trade union hopeful of deal which would ‘save jobs’ at Ballymena bus manufacturer
Lower pensions for women, tax breaks for trader uppers, and Wrightbus land
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Wrightbus family urged to ‘hand land back’ to people of Ballymena
Unite says neither town nor Northern Ireland can afford loss of 1,200 jobs
Beleaguered Wrightbus received over £9m in state funding
Ballymena bus maker went into administration last week
Former Wrightbus workers ‘angry’ at donations to evangelical church
Cornerstone gave over £16m to local church in the years before mass redundancies
Potential rescue deal for WrightBus scuppered by lease
A number of potential buyers walked away from sale discussions because of the way lease arrangements were structured
Northern Irish maker of ‘Boris bus’ in talks as Brexit risk hits
Ballymena’s Wrights Group, one of NI’s biggest exporters, has been hit by uncertainty
Agenda: Is the North’s manufacturing landscape shifting rather than dying?
‘We do have a raft of successful medium-sized ones and a huge amount of successful smaller companies’
‘Boris cannot hide from us’: Harland & Wolff workers demand action from Johnson
Belfast firm's employees urge response from London as they battle to save their shipyard
Ryanair strike vote, Bord na Móna losses, job fears in North, and banker bonuses
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Wrightbus seeks new investor amid union concerns
Concern mounts among 1,400-strong workforce and wider community, says union
Ballymena bus company wins multi-million contract for London double deckers
Hydrogren buses will produce no pollution from exhausts
UK on ‘verge of historic mistake’ on Brexit deal vote, says Boris Johnson
Ex-foreign secretary tells DUP conference North would be ‘economic semi-colony of EU’
Cash for ash inquiry hears evidence of failure, fury and farce
RHI inquiry chairman incredulous that there was no written record of who decided not to pull the reins on the highly lucrative but disastrous scheme
Ballymena bus group Wrights to cut 95 jobs
Manufacturer cites downturn in orders as reason for job cuts
British want business as usual in North post-Brexit – Grayling
‘Very committed to maintaining free-moving border between NI and Republic of Ireland’
London’s famous red buses are about to go green
Mayor Sadiq Khan has pledged to stop buying buses that run purely on diesel from 2018
Ballymena bus group Wrights to buy 100-acre JTI Tobacco site
Engineering company says it is running out of space on current site after strong recent growth
Net worth of Ballymena-based WrightBus increases to £24.4m
Outlook for group, which employs 1,200 people in North, ‘remains positive’
Workers unhappy at Bombardier management’s vote advice
Suggestions Bombardier workers should vote to remain in EU spark controversy
Third of Invest NI’s money goes to three recipients, survey finds
Third of available money went to QUB, UU and film sector, Detail Data finds
Van Morrison, Kerry-born British Council head to be knighted
Belfast singer-songwriter was named in Queen Elizabeth’s birthday honours list
Wrights Group opens bus body plant in India
Move will help sustain employment for its workforce in Northern Ireland, says group
Paisley jnr urges gay unionists to vote for DUP in general election
MP tells son of ex-president to ‘get over’ comment which delayed him coming out
Robinson says DUP could play ‘pivotal’ role in next British parliament
First Minister confident that DUP will regain East Belfast seat he lost to Naomi Long
Antrim bus firm wins €37m order for Singapore bus kits
Since 2010 Wrightbus has supplied more than 1,000 buses to Singapore
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