Business First Summer 2017 Business First Magazine Summer 2017 | Page 48
GES GROUP
GES Group celebrates forty five years
in business - and growing strong
David Moore, GES Group Managing Director, Cllr Noreen McClelland, Deputy Mayor Antrim and Newtownabbey Council, Tom Grant, GES Group CEO.
ES Group welcomed customers, key
members of industry, and special guests
to their 45th Birthday Bash, held at
Mossley Mill, Newtownabbey, on Thursday
11th May, 2017.
The Birthday Bash celebrated 45 years in
business for the Group, as well as showcasing
their significant investment in training and
people development, equipment, and
infrastructure, including the £300,000
investment in their purpose built Mallusk
facility, and their recent Bronze Award win in
the national Training Journal Awards for Best
Change Management programme, where they
faced stiff competition from companies such
as Dell, O2, and Transport for London.
InvestNI’s Director of Advanced
Manufacturing and Engineering, Bill
Montgomery, welcomed guests to the event.
He said, “GES Group is one of Northern
Ireland’s homegrown success stories,
employing over 80 people across their two
sites in Ballymena and Mallusk, and investing
heavily in training and upskilling to develop
Engineers for the future.
“It is important to recognise and celebrate
small businesses such as GES, who create
valuable employemnet opportunities within
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our communities, as well as servicing the
bluechip and multinational organisations
that call Northern Ireland their home.
I’d like to take this opportunity to
congratulate Tom, David, and the rest of the
team, for achieveing real growth for the
organisation, and for not only surviving for
45 years, but thriving for 45 years. I wish you
the best for the future.”
GES Group CEO, Tom Grant, shared some
personal and entertaining anecdotes,
ensuring the audience were in high spirits
with his witty recollections, before company
Managing Director, David Moore, brought us
uptodate with the Group’s recent
achievements, launching the company’s new
product and service offerings:
• Static Var Generators and Active
Harmonic Filters – GES have partnered
with innovative power quality solution
experts, Sinexcel, as the sole UK and Ireland
distributor and integration partner for their
products, which are capacitorfree, and use
3level topology. Tenders have been
submitted for projects in France, the US,
and Canada.
• Energy Storage Solutions – Can be used
in a variety of applications, including
renewable generted storage, to increase
capacity, or to draw from the grid during
offpeak times to be released during
periods of peak demand.
• Servo Motor Repair Centre – GES have
made significant investment over the past
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