THE online revolution has created a generation of internet users who demand high-quality access to the web wherever they are, and a North East company is leading the way on the world's railways.Read
IT is almost a year since Newcastle's Business Improvement District was launched. Chris Knox looks at the impact it has had on the city centre, its shoppers and its traders - and its plans to create parks and introduce late-night shopping all week.Read
ONCE the holiday destination of choice for thousands of people in the North East, Whitley Bay has slid into a state of dilapidation over the past 10 years.Read
HERBERT Loebl's extraordinary life story has seen him play a role in the creation of countless North East firms. Now, he tells Andrew Hebden, he wants to lend a helping hand again.Read
THE first company to benefit from the new £125m fund to support North East businesses is expected to be named within weeks. Peter McCusker takes a look at how the fund works and who will benefit.Read
ONE North East outlined its ambitions for the region at an exclusive Evening Gazette event last week. Scores of industry leaders gathered to hear how the regional development agency aims to deliver results for the region. SUE SCOTT reports.Read
OVER its 30-year history, Hays Travel has become a North East institution, with many people experiencing their first taste of oversees travel after booking with the firm.Read
LAST month's news that 900 staff at the Shop Direct call centre in Sunderland were being made redundant was a blow to the North East's call centre industry. Christopher Knox assesses the strength of the industry in region.Read
AS well as wide-scale job losses and failing businesses, another consequence of the economic downturn has been the rise in fraud cases. Christopher Knox finds out more.Read
NETWORKING aimed solely at businesswomen in the North East is continuing to thrive despite the huge number of mixed business networking events available. Karen Dent finds out more about one women-only networking group for entrepreneurs in County Durham.Read
AS the recession finally ends, Christopher Knox looks at the latest figures from high street retailers and asks whether a happy Christmas will lead to strong trading in 2010.Read
WITH global stock still in their earliest stages of recovery and interest rates helping to make only the most minimal of returns on investment, people are now looking elsewhere.Read
Will the next 12 months see us finally shake off the recession and return to the buoyant conditions we enjoyed before the credit crunch reared its ugly head? Or could there perhaps be even darker times ahead?Read
YOU don't have to be a mammoth corporation with a bottomless pit of capital to make it big overseas. Andrew Mernin finds out how a growing band of the region's small businesses have become exporters on a shoestring budget.Read
SUCCESSFUL healthcare entrepreneur Keith Little meets David Lynch, who has just started his own business. They swap stories and advice which may help others setting up in business.Read
