Mar
2008
Articles from 27th Mar 2008
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Revived Sainsbury announces profits ahead of forecast
Mar 27 2008 | Business News
SUPERMARKET chain Sains- bury’s has rounded off a three-year improvement plan by announcing sales figures at the top end of expectations. Read
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Tees companies welcome nuclear power expansion
Mar 27 2008 | Business News
TEES engineering companies have welcomed Business Secretary John Hutton’s claim that Britain must “significantly expand” its nuclear power production for the sake of national security and combating climate change. Read
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More funding increases growth
Mar 27 2008 | Business News
HARTLEPOOL-BASED Exwold Technology is expanding its business on the back of a fourth injection of funding. Read
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Firm’s quality leads to sale
Mar 27 2008 | Business News
ONE OF THE world’s biggest manufacturers of escalators and elevators has bought up a family-owned Stockton firm because it makes ‘better straight stair lifts than they do’. Read
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ScS sales update gloomy – but profit hopes stay
Mar 27 2008 | Business News
SOFA retailer ScS Upholstery delivered another gloomy sales update, but said it was still hopeful of returning to profit later this year. Read
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Imports will sweep 800 jobs to Tees
Mar 27 2008 | Business News
MORE than 800 jobs will be created at an import centre to be built at the North East’s biggest port. Read
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Speedy recovery in housing ruled out
Mar 27 2008 | Business News
HOUSEBUILDER Bellway yesterday said a recovery in the housing market could take as long as late next year to kick in. Read
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Plant to bring in staff
Mar 27 2008 | Business News
RECRUITMENT is under way for scores of staff at Teesside’s new £250m bioethanol plant, which is on target to begin turning wheat into green fuel by 2009. Read
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Barker & Stonehouse opening in Midlands
Mar 27 2008 | Business News
BARKER & Stonehouse is expanding into the Midlands, bringing the number of outlets owned by the Middlesbrough-based furniture company to eight. Read
