A BUILDING firm has put the finishing touches to the creation of one of the region’s most important cultural attractions and is now looking forward to a healthy 2009 after setting up a dedicated North East arm.Read
A BUILDING services firm is positioning itself to take advantage of any improvement in the market after a difficult period which saw 50 staff made redundant and annual turnover fall.Read
AFTER all of the scandals the BBC and ITV have faced recently, the bigwigs at the big two probably held their breath and waited for the backlash when they heard there was another outcry at one of the nation’s favourite shows.Read
A NORTH East construction firm believes it can still double its turnover to £50m as it begins to reap the benefits of being owned by a £1.8bn-a- year parent company.Read
BUILDING and maintenance company Rok has been celebrating in style after winning the prestigious award of ‘Contractor of the Year 2008’ from one of the region’s housing groups.Read
ARIDDLE to start your day: What’s often in a hole of one kind or another, usually taken for granted yet is indispensable to us all? Right first time, it’s building and civil contracting in the North East.Read
CONSTRUCTION company St Astier believes it can maintain its turnover after securing a number of prominent contracts, including refurbishing Gateshead’s MetroCentre.Read
THE new boss at the North East operations of Clugston Construction plans to grow its presence in the region to help it maintain its turnover around the £20m mark.Read
THE return of the traditional beach hut is not too far away as redevelopment work by Newcastle-based Ian Darby Partnership (IDP) on the Blyth Beach promenade nears completion.Read
UK contractor Kier Group has said that its North East operations are holding up, despite a significant fall in its UK profits, and is now hopeful of landing a number of major contracts in the region.Read
IT was Franklin Roosevelt’s adviser Harry Hopkins who said: “Give a man the dole and you save his body and destroy his spirit. Give him a job and you save both his body and his spirit.”Read
A BUILDING firm that specialises in prison developments is confident of surviving the recession intact, despite expecting its turnover to halve to £10m this year.Read
