MEDICAL testing kit maker IDS says it is on target to quadruple sales to around £40m by 2010 after its latest trading update showed sales had risen by 90% in the last year.Read
A DIRECTOR who started out at a leading firm of Newcastle consulting engineers as an inexperienced 17-year-old has just completed a management buy out of the business.Read
HOPES of an interest rate cut have been dampened by new data showing manufacturer product prices last month rose at their fastest rate for at least nine years.Read
AS IF he didn’t have enough to worry about just now, Bank of England governor Mervyn King will have taken little comfort from the latest survey from the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) published yesterday.Read
A TEES commercial property expert has warned that the Government’s abolition of rate relief on industrial and office buildings will deter investment in pension schemes.Read
A STOCKTON-BASED housing group claims to have become the first North-east business of its kind to adopt the “living wage”, designed to lift those in work off benefits.Read
EAGLESCLIFFE entrepreneur Jeremy Leeds has revealed he is in discussions to buy a hotel in Whitby as part of a five-year plan to develop a portfolio of luxury retreats in the Tees Valley and North Yorkshire.Read
PHIL Woolas MP, Minister for the Environment, met with North East Chamber of Commerce members recently. They were impressed by his openness and passion for climate change.Read
THE trial run of an airport baggage weighing machine, which it is hoped will create hundreds of jobs in the North East, gets underway at Bristol Airport tomorrow.Read
RECENT turmoil in the financials sector has left many investors understandably wary of banking shares, although we would argue that these are now keenly priced.Read
WITH dealmakers working flat out in the run up to new tax year and the changes in Capital Gains Tax the deadline for the inaugural Journal Deal Awards has been put back two weeks.Read
