Commendium’s five year business support and broadband stimulation project delivery in Northern Ireland, called logon-ni, has successfully completed. The ten strong team of advisors and call centre staff surpassed all set targets and objectives.
The Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment Arlene Foster thanked the team for their ‘very successful and remarkable outcomes’. We are over the moon. logon-ni was a great project, we met many hard working businesses who were keen to learn and embrace new technologies. Together with the mentoring team, and the ‘hard work and perseverance’of our clients, we delivered a great project.
We are very proud of our Northern Ireland team, who undertook the role “to assist SMEs in Northern Ireland to grow by using technology to boost their businesses’, they not only achieved this, but surpassed all set targets.
An independent report showed that the project lead to an increase in Gross Value Add (GVA) of £11.3m in the province. In addition, the delivery of SME digital mentoring by the team, generated the following improvements to the economy:
Increased and safeguarded sales of £36.8m, created 307 jobs and safeguarded a further 818 jobs.
[Source:2011 – Independent DETI midterm review: Source: DETI/ Ekosgen]
The letter from The Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment Arlene Foster congratulating the team:
Letter to Commendium from Arlene Foster, congratulating the team.