How Belfast’s insurance sector is overcoming Brexit blues
As Belfast enters a new year of investment, consolidation and post-Brexit adjustment, Tom Luckham examines how its insurance sector is proving resilient, fast-growing and increasingly strategic for both UK and Irish markets.
When, in 1888, Belfast was granted city status, it was the world’s largest centre of linen manufacturing, according to JC Beckett’s 2003 book Belfast: The Making of the City.
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