From initial ambitions of becoming a farmer to running regional food group Taste North East, KAREN DENT meets Jane Hogan and discovers why she believes women really come into their own in their 40sRead
HE'S known as a pioneering industrialist responsible for co-creating a business that has spawned hundreds of other companies. But there's so much more to Herbert Loebl’s eventful life, as Karen Dent discovers.Read
DR Jo Berry admits she struggles to say no to interesting opportunities. It's an approach that's taken her from apartheid South Africa to Davos, the pit lane and the music industry. John Hill catches up with Newcastle University Business School's director of engagement.Read
AMMAR Mirza's heritage is Pakistani but he loves his home city of Newcastle. Ruth Lognonne meets the man who founded Asian Business Connexions to help the Asian and North East business communities work more closely together.Read
HE'S served his country as a soldier, bodyguard and magistrate. These days, Charles Enderby's attentions are focused on making sure Hexham Racecourse endures for future generations. Ruth Lognonne met him.Read
PD Ports may have lost out on a Spanish turbine factory, but it still has big plans for the future as Peter Jackson discovers in conversation with chief operating officer David Robinson.Read
GOTT Technical Services is one of the North East’s leading motor equipment suppliers. We catch up with director Ian Gott to find out how his business grew.Read
SOCIAL engineering is no part of a university's role and if the government thinks otherwise Durham University vice chancellor Prof Christopher Higgins will soon put it right, as Peter Jackson discovers.Read
STEWART Watkins, the first chief of newly created Business Durham, talks to Peter Jackson about a career spanning much of the UK's post war economic history.Read
AS the North East LEP emerges from the long One North East shadow, Peter Jackson talks to its chairman Paul Woolston about his role and his plans for the future.Read
THERE'S no business like showbusiness - and it really is a business, as Erica Whyman, chief executive of Northern Stage, makes clear to Peter Jackson.Read
PROPERTY companies have been hard hit by the financial crisis and few want to talk about it. But Tony Mann, owner of the Oceana Group, opens up to Peter Jackson about his company's struggles, the mistakes that were made and the prospects for the future.Read
For the past few years, financial planner turned developer Allan Cook has been overseeing the DurhamGate project, a mixed-use development near Spennymoor which he hopes will bring more than 2,200 jobs to the area. JOHN HILL finds out how he found himself here, and learns a little about his ambitions for a historic area nearbyRead
WHETHER building the fast-growing Teesside engineering group Wilton from scratch or giving up his time for charity, Bill Scott maintains a remorseless pace, as Tom Rowley discovers.Read
PETERBatty is an unusual pharmacist. Although he now runs County Durham-based Norchem, he has spent most of his life running pubs and wine shops. But there is a common theme of good service, he tells Tom Rowley.Read
From humble beginnings as an 1800s meat mart, H&H Group has grown into a national heavyweight which is primed for growth and bullish about the future. At the helm of the business is Brian Richardson, who tells ANDREW MERNIN about his route from farm boy to leader of one of the North’s most successful firmsRead