Apr
2008
Articles from 2nd Apr 2008
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Minister’s passion for environmental change
Apr 02 2008 | Business News
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
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Night train delivers a clean solution
Apr 02 2008 | Business News
UNWANTED steel slag from Teesside’s Corus is taking the night train to a new life in the south. Read
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Boss at heritage firm in buyout
Apr 02 2008 | Business News
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
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Dealmakers are awarded extra time
Apr 02 2008 | Business News
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
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Cleaners create 100 new jobs
Apr 02 2008 | Business News
A BUILDING maintenance company hopes to create 100 jobs and more than treble its sales after winning a contract to clean doctors’ surgeries. Read
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Some areas worth a look
Apr 02 2008 | Business News
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
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Cash-flow problems to cost 60 jobs
Apr 02 2008 | Business News
A FAMILY-OWNED County Durham business which employs around 60 people is expected to go into administration within days. Read
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Worrying time as inflation creeps up
Apr 02 2008 | Business News
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
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Healthy results for medical kit maker
Apr 02 2008 | Business News
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
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Europe’s worst credit casualty
Apr 02 2008 | Business News
ONE of Europe’s biggest finance houses has revealed a multi-billion-dollar hit from the collapse of the sub-prime loans market. Read
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Manufacturer costs at record high
Apr 02 2008 | Business News
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
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S&N shares react to takeovers
Apr 02 2008 | Business News
THE FTSE 100 index ended the day 150.5 points higher at 5852.60, banks having dominated its leaderboard. Read
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Couple test a weighty invention
Apr 02 2008 | Business News
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
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Commercial rates hike 'will hit pensions', says Tees expert
Apr 02 2008 | Business News
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
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Stockton firm introduces living wage
Apr 02 2008 | Business News
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
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Eaglescliffe hotel empire starts to build
Apr 02 2008 | Business News
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
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Creamery wins character deal
Apr 02 2008 | Business News
A NORTH-EAST creamery is preparing to cash in on a new wave of Wallace and Gromit mania as the plasticine heroes return to the nation’s screens. Read
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Partnership getting the wheels moving
Apr 02 2008 | Business News
AN INNOVATIVE transport scheme that helps people access jobs by lending them a scooter has launched a new training programme in North Yorkshire. Read
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‘End of the beginning’ for re-shaped Business Link
Apr 02 2008 | Business News
One year since the business support service Business Link North East came into being, Peter McCusker reports on its progress. Read
