{"id":356165,"date":"2025-08-19T06:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T06:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/356165\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T06:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T06:53:12","slug":"brick-and-stone-how-tory-agnew-is-taking-over-the-reins-of-the-mallusk-business-from-her-dad-nick-blair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/356165\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick and Stone: How Tory Agnew is taking over the reins of the Mallusk business from her dad Nick Blair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nTory Agnew tells Business Telegraph about succeeding her dad at helm of Brick and Stone in Mallusk, and coping with the death of her husband\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tory Agnew, director at Brick and Stone, who's soon to take over the business from her father Nick Blair\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Tory_Agnew_5.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Tory Agnew, director at Brick and Stone, who&#8217;s soon to take over the business from her father Nick Blair<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">She\u2019s been immersed in the family brick business for around 20 years, and now a new chapter is coming for Tory Agnew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The 38-year-old from Co Antrim will soon take over from her father Nick Blair, company founder and a well-known figure in the industry, to become managing director of Brick and Stone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tory Agnew tells Business Telegraph about succeeding her dad at helm of Brick and Stone in Mallusk, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1211,778,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-356165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-antrim-news","9":"tag-margaret-canning","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115054117231884696","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}