A YOUNG entrepreneur who turned the leather cleaning business his father started in his garage into a business with customers worldwide including fashion houses and luxury car firms has doubled its sales in the last year.Read
FLEXLIFE, an oil and gas industry specialist in subsea project and integrity management, has recruited 20 people in the six months since it opened its Newcastle base.Read
BICYCLES to car repair firm Halfords and wholesaler Booker provide the focus for the City this week, while purchasing managers’ surveys will provide an insight into the health of the UK economy.Read
SOCIAL engineering is no part of a university's role and if the government thinks otherwise Durham University vice chancellor Prof Christopher Higgins will soon put it right, as Peter Jackson discovers.Read
THE Government has agreed to relax its control over defence firm QinetiQ to make it easier for it to buy or sell businesses and compete more effectively.Read
THE spring heatwave boosted demand for summer fashion ranges at department store John Lewis and triggered a five-fold rise in sales of barbecue food at sister chain Waitrose.Read
THE boss of the Co-operative Group insisted “we know how to run a bank” yesterday after speculation that its £1.4bn bid to buy 632 Lloyds branches is in jeopardy.Read
THOMSON Holidays owner TUI Travel has reported improved summer bookings as it continued to outpace the market and make gains at the expense of struggling Thomas Cook.Read
THE owner of Mecca Bingo has said it has walked away from talks over a deal with gambling company Gala Coral that would have created the UK’s biggest casino operator.Read
THE family firm which has been delivering tea to homes across the North East for over a century is expanding after winning new business including the contract to supply high class London store Fortnum and Mason.Read
FAST-GROWING car dealership group Vertu is creating 19 jobs at its support centre in Gateshead to handle sales enquiries from customers nationwide.Read
Iain Laing has been business editor for four years. He started his ncjMedia career as a Durham district reporter in 2000. He has served as a reporter at the Evening News in Edinburgh and the Northern Echo in Darlington.
