PROPERTY agents storeys:ssp has been based in the same Newcastle location for almost 120 years. After rejecting four recent merger approaches, the well-known company’s chief executive Bill Lynn tells Peter McCusker that the business is staying put for many more years to come.Read
FORMER Newcastle United finance director Les Wheatley has returned to the North East to spearhead an expansion drive at security business The Protector Group.Read
A PASSION for people, poison and looking at things with a "twist", Karen Dent meets the Duchess of Northumberland - and discovers why she believes that, ultimately, success comes down to sandwichesRead
MORPETH businesswoman Lynn Tomkins has risen to the top in the male-dominated world of engineering and was recently recognised as UK Boss of the Year after being nominated by her staff. Peter McCusker reports.Read
FROM Procter & Gamble to politics, and investing in start-ups and climbing a few mountains in between: Karen Dent meets FTSE-200 company co-founder turned venture capitalist Jeremy Middleton.Read
THE man behind the successful NetPark at Sedgefield imported the idea from a pioneering scheme started in Durham, North Carolina. John Anstee told Sue Scott about it.Read
PETER Phillipson has spent his career creating and revitalising world-famous brands. Now the chairman of Merlin Entertainments tells Andrew Hebden of his latest ambition – to open the eyes of the world to his home region.Read
HE'S never seen the need to limit his own horizons, and for the past six years he's been widening others' with an online overseas property portal that's given him the most fun he's ever had. Jez Davison met Les Calvert.Read
AFTER leaving school at 16, Sharon Griffiths took a string of jobs before being hired as a part-time credit controller at The Specials Laboratory in Northumberland. Seven years later, she is managing director of the £16m drugs company. Peter McCusker reports.Read
THIRD-GENERATION Tyneside boiler-maker Graham Wood built and sold two successful American companies. Now he is pouring his energy and money into his hometown football club, writes Peter McCusker.Read
AN academic-turned-entrepreneur with three degrees under his belt is making a ‘triple A’ impact on Tees Valley’s high-tech industrial sector. Jez Davison meets Arnab Basu.Read
WORKING as a football chairman brings mass criticism, impossible financial targets and the fire of media snipers from every angle, so why do it? Andrew Mernin talks to Gerald Krasner, an insolvency expert who has done it twice and would do it again given half the chance.Read
MARTIN Soloman led his legal practice through a period of rapid growth and in the last two years has steered it through the recession unscathed, as well as helping to raise over £1m for charity in his spare time. Peter McCusker reports.Read
HE will forever be associated with Vaux but there is much more to Sir Paul Nicholson's life than the Sunderland brewery group. Karen Dent hears about the thrills and spills in both business and pleasure that have marked his career.Read
