PHARMACY entrepreneur Alex Holliday has struck a multi-million pound deal to sell his 25-strong chain of shops and wholesale business to industry leader Alliance Boots.Read
SLOWING house prices and a clampdown on consumer lending saw retailers suffer their worst quarter in two years. Almost a quarter of all stock market-listed retailers reported downbeat sales in the first three months of 2008 as cash-strapped consumers struggled to find credit, according to accountants Grant Thornton.Read
NOF Energy, the North East of England-based business development organisation for the oil, gas and energy-related sectors, has established a new office in Aberdeen.Read
A FOOTBALL club’s immediate future appears to have been secured after Newcastle-based administrator Gerald Krasner revealed he has received two written offers for Bournemouth.Read
APPRENTICES from Hartlepool Power Station have built a new nuclear plant - one that’s five feet tall and is housed at Middlesbrough’s Nature’s World.Read
A TEESSIDE waste management company has added a top-of-the-range specialist tanker to its fleet to cope with the flood of new business generated by regulations that have, since October last year, banned liquid waste from landfill.Read
A PILOT project to give practical one-stop energy saving advice to householders on Teesside has been so successful that the Government has given £100m for similar centres to be opened across the UK.Read
A MIDDLESBROUGH fire protection company is benefiting from legislation aimed at owners of industrial premises, despite 95% of fire-related deaths occurring in the home.Read
IS a franchise the recipe for a happy business marriage or the backdrop to an inevitable battle of independent minds? JEZ DAVISON asks three Teesside business partners who said ‘I do’.Read
A SLOWING housing market has hit the UK construction industry, making it even more unlikely that the Government will reach its housing targets, an RICS UK construction market survey has shown.Read
MIDDLESBOROUGH- based financial advisor Vantis has launched a technology and telecoms group as the two sectors strengthen their presence on Teesside.Read
BANKS Developments has sold a second tranche of land at its mixed-use Bowesfield development in Stockton to David Barlow Homes, on the back of a successful first phase of development on site for the Newcastle-based housebuilder.Read
DARLINGTON property management company Town & City Management Services has been chosen as managing agent for one of the region’s most imaginative property developments.Read
