Just 3% of NI businesses in city

JUST three per cent of Northern Ireland’s registered businesses are based in Londonderry which has the lowest number of firms outside of North and West Belfast.
By The Newsroom
Published 24th May 2012, 18:20 BST

New figures detailing the number of registered businesses in each constituency show there were only 2,205 in Londonderry in January.

Only West Belfast (1,430) and North Belfast (2,185) had fewer whilst East Londonderry (3,900) and West Tyrone (5,095) had roughly twice as many as the Foyle constituency.

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Finance Minister Sammy Wilson provided details of the number of active businesses in Northern Ireland by Parliamentary Constituency at January 2012.

He stated: “Where a business has more than one local unit (site) the location of the business is based on the postcode of the Head Office reporting for all local units within Northern Ireland.”

It follows the revelation in March that over 800 business premises in Londonderry lie desolate.

There are 13 empty factories, 270 empty warehouses and stores and 167 empty shops in Londonderry at present, according to the Finance Minister Sammy Wilson. A total of 817 unoccupied non-domestic properties were vacant here at March 18. This was up from 787 two years ago.

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