EXPERTS from Dickinson Dees played a role in a 25-year deal in which Cumbria County Council has appointed the Shanks Group as its waste management partner.Read
THE Lloyds Banking Group has committed itself to providing £300m of new lending to the region’s top 500-plus companies this year – £160m more than last year.Read
SPECULATION that Northern Rock will prove attractive to potential purchasers has been further fuelled after Tesco became the latest name to be linked with a bid for its “good” assets.Read
THE developer of a new 10-storey Quayside office building completed last year has secured its first letting and says there will be more deals to follow.Read
A MIDDLESBROUGH logistics company has unveiled plans to create a new portfolio commercial premises after making a series of property and land purchases in its home town.Read
THE Terrace Hill Group has responded to the disappointment of losing a pre-let at a prestigious Tyneside site by signing an agreement for 38,500sq ft on Teesside.Read
THERE are around 100 companies in the North East still providing final salary pension schemes, but for how long will that situation last? Peter McCusker reports.Read
SIGNS of a recovery in both the regional economy and corporate deals activity are finally becoming visible according to the corporate finance specialists who met at a recent debate.Read
ADMINISTRATORS of plumbing and electrical firm Simpson & Gregg say they have little hope of selling the business, which collapsed with the loss of 92 jobs.Read
Peter Mccusker is deputy business editor at the Journal. Peter, a former Durham district reporter for The Journal, returned to the paper last year after a four-and-a-half year spell as news editor of the Hartlepool Mail.
