{"id":1603,"date":"2012-08-13T13:53:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T13:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ballymenachamber.co.uk\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2012-08-13T13:59:25","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T13:59:25","slug":"new-members-welcomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/?p=1603","title":{"rendered":"New Members Welcomed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ballymena Borough Chamber of Commerce and Industry held an informal meeting on 9<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 11px;\">th<\/span><\/span>\u00a0August to welcome new members.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1604\" title=\"New Members\" src=\"http:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/NEW_MEMBER_GROUP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"679\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/NEW_MEMBER_GROUP.jpg 679w, https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/NEW_MEMBER_GROUP-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>Front Row L-R:\u00a0Christine Anderson (CBS Outdoor), Thomas McKillen (Chamber President) and Jackie Logan (NakedPR)<\/h6>\n<h6>Back Row L-R:\u00a0Paul Morgan (Surveillance and Security Solutions), Paul Porter (Excel Elevators), Jacqueline Stewart and Matthew Porter (Curtis Toyota Ballymena), John Byrne (Signability) and Ken Crawford (McCartney and Crawford)<\/h6>\n<p>Thomas McKillen, Chamber President and several of the Chamber management committee were present to meet the new members and to tell them about Chamber and what it can do for their business. Thomas said <em>\u201cI am very pleased to welcome you all here today. New members are vital for any organisation. I hope you enjoy your time as Chamber members and that you find your membership to be both beneficial and enjoyable. There is a wealth of experience on the Chamber Management Committee and they are always happy to offer advice and support. I hope you will get involved as that is only way to fully benefit from Chamber membership\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He then presented membership certificates to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"CBS Outdoor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ballymenachamber.co.uk\/?page_id=1580\" target=\"_blank\">CBS Outdoor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Curtis Toyota\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ballymenachamber.co.uk\/?page_id=1574\" target=\"_blank\">Curtis Toyota Ballymena<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Excel Elevators\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ballymenachamber.co.uk\/?page_id=1590\" target=\"_blank\">Excel Elevators<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"McCartney and Crawford\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ballymenachamber.co.uk\/?page_id=1594\" target=\"_blank\">F. J. McCartney and Crawford<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Naked PR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ballymenachamber.co.uk\/?page_id=1567\" target=\"_blank\">NakedPR<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Signability\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ballymenachamber.co.uk\/?page_id=1586\" target=\"_blank\">Signability<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Surveillance and Security Solutions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ballymenachamber.co.uk\/?page_id=1598\" target=\"_blank\">Surveillance and Security Solutions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any business which is interested in Chamber membership can contact Chamber at <a href=\"mailto:office@ballymenachamber.co.uk\">office@ballymenachamber.co.uk<\/a> or phone Chris Wales on 07876 758797.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballymena Borough Chamber of Commerce and Industry held an informal meeting on 9th\u00a0August to welcome new members. Front Row L-R:\u00a0Christine Anderson (CBS Outdoor), Thomas McKillen (Chamber President) and Jackie Logan (NakedPR) Back Row L-R:\u00a0Paul Morgan (Surveillance and Security Solutions), Paul Porter (Excel Elevators), Jacqueline Stewart and Matthew Porter (Curtis Toyota Ballymena), John Byrne (Signability) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,21,30],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-latest-news","tag-local-economy","tag-new-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1606,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions\/1606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}