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All smiles as dental practice wins award

A TEESSIDE dental practice is celebrating after being crowned best employer at a national award ceremony.Read

Business dates for your diary

January 8: HM Revenue and Customs seminar on becoming self-employed, Southlands Centre, Middlesbrough, 9.45am-1.15pm. Details on 01642 795036.Read

RISINGSTARS

CREATIVE businesses in the Tees Valley are set to generate more than 9,000 jobs in the next five years as a glamorous new sector emerges.Read

Builder looks to the future

A HARTLEPOOL building firm, which specialises in extensions and garage conversions, is doing some expansion of its own, thanks to help from a scheme to tackle skill shortages in the construction industry.Read

“The board and I are now keen to follow a business plan that involves further growth, and we aim to increase our turnover for the next year by at least another 10%, bringing us a figure of around £44m”

- Gavin Marshall, managing director of Teesside-based North Eastern Tyre and Exhausts, after the firm announced an increase in turnover of almost 20% and predicted more growth in the coming year.Read

ELECTRONICS company Filtronic announced its North-east operation was to be sold - initially for nothing. It agreed to sell its Newton Aycliffe compound semiconductor division which employs about 200 people.

A £1M refurbishment programme began to transform a building at Preston Farm Business Park into high quality office accommodation. It was also announced the 12,000sq ft building’s original name of Carbury House will also be reinstated, as part of the redevelopment.Read

FAMILY baker Warburtons has made two appointments to consolidate recent expansion in North-east England. Mark Dolan, above left, has joined the company as area business development manager, covering the North-east, Cumbria and Scotland, while Michael Fallon, right, moves from Warburtons in Scotland to take on the responsibilities of general manager at its Stockton bakery.

AN ambitious Teessider is set for a successful career in the motor industry after being appointed as a sales executive at JenningsMazda in Middlesbrough. Twenty-year-old Jason Thomas, from Ormesby, right, is the latest recruit to strengthen the sales team at the group’s Cargo Fleet Lane dealership in Middlesbrough.Read

December 12: HM Revenue and Customs seminar on self assessment for the self employed, Stockton Business Centre, 9.45am-3.15pm. Details on 01642 795037.

December 17: MIDDLESBROUGH Business Referral Exchange meeting, Sporting Lodge, Middlesbrough, 7.15-9am, details from Jo Hand on 01642 242777.Read

Guide dogs boost

INSURANCE broker Smart and Cook, based in Stockton and Northallerton has raised £27,454.32 for The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.Read

Bosses shy away from festive parties

TEES Valley law firm Latimer Hinks is warning the region’s employers not to fall foul of the law during the office Christmas party season.Read

Dear Santa, please bring us...

A PERIOD of significant economic growth is under way in the Tees Valley.Read

THE ground floor of Petroplus House at St Mark’s Court, Teesdale Park, Stockton, is available to let.

Situated within a prime business location adjacent to Stockton town centre on the River Tees, neighbouring premises include national and international companies like Barclaycard, Abbey and Churchill Insurance.Read

Counting the cost of celebrations

COMPANIES will lose millions of pounds in productivity because of workers’ hangovers after the staff Christmas party this year, according to a new report.Read

Transport all wrapped up?

TRANSPORT is the big issue coming down the tracks for Tees Valley as we enter 2008.Read

FINANCIAL Services Authority bosses will be hauled in front of MPs for the second time today to account for their role in the Northern Rock crisis.

FSA chairman Sir Callum McCarthy and chief executive Hector Sants will face a cross party Treasury Select Committee in what is set to be another grilling over the beached bank and the credit crunch.Read

DETAILS of a new £7m business village for Stockton emerged. Stockton-based developers Mandale Commercial said the site will feature a trade park, hybrid office and industrial units, together with a leisure complex. The 50 acre development at Portrack Lane is expected to take two to three years to complete.

NORTHUMBRIAN Water said work was forging ahead on a multi-million pound investment project on Teesside as it reported a “strong” set of half year financial results. The company said work on a £32m green power from waste project at its Bran Sands site was underway and on target to be completed in early 2009.Read

North-easterners spend, spend, spend

CHRISTMAS looks set to be a busy one if consumer spending forecasts are to be believed. But instead of joining the traditional High Street crush, we'll be doing more of our shopping over the internet.Read

Leadership is keytosuccess

LEADERSHIP and commercial skills are the main requirements for business success, according to new research.Read

December 5: HM Revenue and Customs seminar on becoming self employed, Southlands Centre, Middlesbrough, 9.45am-1.15pm. Details on 01642 795037.

December 6: NOF Energy annual dinner and awards, Hardwick Hall hotel, Sedgefield. Details from 0191 240 7008.Read

Optional baubles

44% of consumers will buy a computer game for friends of familyRead