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its history. Hagan Homes has built
almost 3,600 homes across Northern
Ireland since it was established almost
30 years ago. The success is an
indication that what Hagan Homes is
offering, in terms of specification of
build, is exactly what customers want.
Hagan Homes builds affordable,
quality, stylish homes and achieves
this by appointing awardwinning
arc hitects, interior designers and
craftspeople. The company's hard
working, committed team has adapted
to an everchanging market and this
has been an integral part of Hagan
Homes’ success.
Denise Hamill
Digital Den, Managing Director
Denise is an award winning freelance
Marketing Consultant, based in
Craigavon, Northern Ireland. Her
business is to help businesses market
themselves online and includes
developing digital strategies, project
managing website builds, copywriting,
blog content, social media, email
marketing, SEO, training & mentoring.
They say that people buy from people
and the reason that Denise is so
successful is that she is reliable,
trustworthy and has always stuck to
her core principals of integrity and
honesty. People trust Denise to do a
job when they give it to her and they
know it will be completed 150%
because not only she is a perfectionist,
she also cares about your business like
it is her own.
@denisecowan
Claire Harris
Tell It In Colour, Director
Claire is a cofounder and Director of
Tell It In Colour which aims to capture
and tell positive stories of change in
communities in Northern Ireland who
are negatively labelled or stereotyped.
She also works with postgraduate
students in Queen's University Belfast,
supporting and encouraging
entrepreneurship and innovation.
Claire is passionate about storytelling,
participatory research, social
innovation and increasing political
engagement. Claire sits on the board of
Belfast Interface Project and has a
MPhil. In Conflict Transformation from
Trinity College Dublin. She loves
travelling and sampling the amazing
restaurants in NI.
@Claire9Harris
Mark Haslam
Loud Mouth Media, Managing
Director
Loud Mouth Media is a specialist
digital advertising agency with offices
in Belfast, Dublin and Glasgow. Mark
founded the business in 2011 having
gained valuable experience working as
a Web Consultant in the
telecommunications industry, Mark’s
fervent passion for digital instilled his
vision to set up the agency. Despite the
difficult economy and increased
competition in the digital advertising
field, Marks dedication was not
swayed and it strived him to grow the
business to where it is today. By
obtaining the title of ‘Best Small PPC
Agency in the UK’ at the UK Search
Awards in 2017 it proved that his
upfront transparent approach with all
his clients was a winning solution that
got results. Mark now leads a young,
versatile team of 17 managing 120+
active clients with further growth
anticipated in 2018.
@markhaslam1979
Andrew Hassard
Mango Bikes, Director
Andrew Hassard started in the bike
industry with Chain Reaction Cycles
and later worked for Planet X Bikes
and Go Outdoors where he developed
a range of branded and ownbrand
bikes, parts and accessories. An
enthusiastic cyclist and triathelete,
Andrew decided to locate his company
at Willowbank Business Park outside
Larne in the Mid & East Antrim
Borough. On the basis of his
experience of and interest in managing
national supply chains he decided to
make the move into the bike industry
in 20089. One measure of his
enthusiasm for bicycles, and his
determination and perseverance, can
be gained from his completion of a
DecaIronman in 2012 becoming only
one of a handful to have done so (this
involves, on ten successive day
completing an Ironman: 3.8km swim,
180km cycle and a 42km marathon to
finish)
@mangobikes
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