THE wife and daughter of one of the North-East’s most prominent entrepreneurs are following in his footsteps and launching their own business venture.Read
BUILDING services and supplies company Northern Bear has announced plans to double its annual sales in a year after making its latest multi-million pound acquisition.Read
LAST year’s winner of the Cultural and Creative Business Awards was TH_NK. Winning the 2006 award has been a springboard for this website design and new media strategy company – it is expecting to reach £4.5m sales by the end of the year, up from £2m last year. It has recruited 33 staff since the start of 2006 now employing 55 people. This recent growth caps a remarkable period for the company, launched by Tarek Nseir and Gary Glozier in 2002, in which sales have doubled every year since 2004.Read
A NEW universal EU banking system being launched in January could open doors to North-East exporters – but also increase competition from overseas.Read
AFORMER engineer is hoping to establish himself as a internationally-recognised artist by expanding his business selling reproductions of old masters.Read
The 47-year-old moved to Newcastle from KPMG’s Leeds office last year to share his internal audit and risk management expertise with KPMG’s corporate and public sector clients in the North-East and further the office’s rapid expansion.Read
IN the second of our Business Clinics, in which Journal readers can gain tips and advice from members of the Entrepreneurs’ Forum, the question is asked how non-communications ‘experts’ can communicate better with their customers.Read
ENTREPRENEURS of all ages always say to me it is other people in business they gather really valuable advice from, and so in the first of a new series called ‘Head to Head’ we invite two entrepreneurs to come up with a wish-list of questions they’d really like answered about each other and their companies.Read
AFTER Monday’s positive start to the week, the UK markets fell sharply into the red in the early hours of trading, subsequent to the American markets closing down overnight. The FSTE 100 Index was down 58 points by nine o’clock, though it did manage to recover, ending the session on 6362.4.Read
THE Council of Mortgage Lenders has said that the increase in mortgage costs reinforces a trend which began in early summer and reflects interest rate rises in May and July. But the industry body warned that the impact of the recent credit crunch, which has caused lenders to tighten their lending policies and increase some rates, had only begun to affect mortgage approvals in October, suggesting rates could increase further in the coming months.Read
