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The UK’s 27 million online shoppers generated around 860 million parcel deliveries in 2007.

43 million Britons aged 16+ use the internet.Read

Psyche website boosting high street sales

CLICK happy consumers spent £84m online on Christmas Day, pushing British e-tail sales to a record high last year.Read

Old industry gives way to new

A FORMER steelworks site, adjacent to the A66 between Middlesbrough and Redcar is poised to take on a new industrial life as Tees Valley’s first dedicated waste management and recycling complex comes before planners at the end of the month.Read

Sexy website boosts Bizou Boutique

WERE it not for its sexy new website, which gave it international exposure for the first time last year, Yarm’s exclusive lingerie outlet the Bizou Boutique might never have come to the attention of American bra brand Le Mystere.Read

Beating the cold with the help of the Earth

A REDCAR company said it was making “phenomenal progress” as customers flocked to install an innovative heating system that uses geothermal pumps to take heat direct from the earth.Read

Take the leap to a global triumph

GEORGE Riddle of North-east web designers simplywsi.com and Dean Benson of Stockton’s visualsoft.co.uk make a living creating parallel retail worlds. Many clients now have their own international sales division, generated exclusively on the web.Read

Are YOU ready for Tees Dragon’s Den?

ARE YOU sitting on the next big business idea? Do you have the guts to take it into the Dragon’s Den?Read

POSITIVE changes for inheritance tax following the Chancellor's 2007 Pre Budget Report have led some families to believe that they no longer need to put in place tax efficient arrangements in their Wills. I urge caution in this approach.

Prior to last October, the situation for married couples and civil partners was as follows:Read

Advice to keep business on track

RESEARCH from Barclays Bank recently revealed almost three quarters of businesses were braced for a more competitive marketplace in 2008.Read

25 years in their sights...

AS A LAD, Stockton’s Andrew Petch played pass-the-parcel with ticking time bombs crafted by his dad, Terry - founder, somewhat ironically, of Safeguard Security Systems. Years later, he’d play his part in protecting the Enron power station against terrorist threat and even came close to outwitting a crack team of soldiers determined to bag a local landowner’s pheasants. As the company celebrates 25 eventful years, MIKE PARKER reflects on the growth of a well-respected family firm...Read

EVERYONE has a story to tell – from the “Good Old Days” of their generation to fond recollections of events which could rekindle the memories of others.

Why not share your memories with our readers across the globe who regularly log on to our Gazette Live website. Let us have your stories and pictures from before 1990 to share with our web users.Read

Finding openings fortalent

A REPORT commissioned by Culture NorthEast, part of the regional development authority, revealed that commercial creative industries, made up of 2,200 businesses, are worth £800m to the region’s economy. Together, they employ 30,000 people - as many as chemical giant ICI supported in its heyday.Read

New hotel owners are in love with Teesside

NEW owners at a Teesside hotel are defying Middlesbrough’s ‘worst town’ slur after choosing the area above everywhere else in the UK to grow their business.Read

Patient sinks her teeth into revamping surgery

INTERIOR designer Caroline Atkinson got more than she bargained for during a visit to Cleveland Orthodontics.Read

Helping the high fliers get off the ground

NEXT month will see the global digital art-fest Animex return to Teesside University followed later in the year by a North-east tour of the BBC’s innovation labs, which gives creative contributors to the Beeb an insight into working for the corporation.Read

Digital future may be on Teesside

THE next YouTube, Google or eBay could even now be in a creative cradle somewhere on Teesside.Read

Key points to avoid computer disaster

A FRIGHTENING 43% of all businesses who suffer a major loss of computerised records never reopen and only 6% survive long term.Read

Call of the renewables

MORE THAN £4bn of investment is heading for the renewable energy and recycling industries over the next few years, holding out the prospect of a vibrant new industrial base emerging in the Tees Valley.Read

Energy champsspreadword

A TEESSIDE pharmaceutical plant is boosting energy awareness across its workforce.Read

NIEL Bushnell, managing director of visual affects studio Qurios Entertainment in Hartlepool, began his career in London in a junior studio position for the film and television industries.

He and his wife, Diane, returned to their native Hartlepool before setting up their own business, which employs eight people.Read