Ballymena is celebrating a very successful Christmas shopping season!
In the final week before Christmas town centre customer footfall rose by 8.1%.
That's compared to the same week in 2015.
The figures were supplied by the retail intelligence company, Springboard.
Meanwhile Ballymena's Christmas Bear scored over 135 000 internet hits!
Ballymena's Christmas footfall increase was seven times the overall Northern Ireland rate.
Ronan McCann is President of Ballymena Chamber of Commerce:
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