{"id":359037,"date":"2025-08-20T09:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T09:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/359037\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T09:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T09:05:13","slug":"ambition-to-grow-supports-68-local-companies-across-western-regional-office-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/359037\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambition to Grow supports 68 local companies across Western Regional Office Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethna McNamee, Western Regional Manager for Invest NI said: \u201cWe created this programme to support businesses right across Northern Ireland to grow their teams and export sales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince 2022, Ambition to Grow has helped over 60 companies across our Western Regional Office network spanning from Fermanagh to Armagh. \u00a0These companies now plan to create 240 jobs and sell products and services into new markets. The new external sales have the potential to generate \u00a323m of new business for these companies by 2027.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dungannon based steel structural engineering company, Weldone participated on the programme in 2024 Managing Director, Brian McDonald said: \u201cAmbition to Grow has been transformative for our business. The support we received on the programme helped us to achieve ISO accreditations in fabrication and engineering so that we could break into the ROI market. We have also been able to create 6 new jobs within our fabrication and engineering teams so that we can meet demand and onboard our new customers.\u201d<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ethna McNamee, Western Regional Manager for Invest NI said: \u201cWe created this programme to support businesses right across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[126339,126340,99199,126342,42735,54273,5819,5814,1144,126341,16,15,54710],"class_list":{"0":"post-359037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-ambition-to-grow","9":"tag-ambition-to-grow-practical-export-skills","10":"tag-armagh","11":"tag-armagh-banbridge-craigavon-borough-council","12":"tag-county-tyrone","13":"tag-fermanagh","14":"tag-fermanagh-and-omagh-district-council","15":"tag-mid-ulster-district-council","16":"tag-northern-ireland","17":"tag-tyrone","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-western-regional-office"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115060298582311426","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359037","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=359037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}