THE boss of Nissan has spoken directly to staff at its Sunderland factory to assure them that a new model to be built at the plant from 2010 will compensate for the transfer of Micra production to India.Read
FOLLOWING the success of last year’s service excellence seminar, The Journal, eaga plc and Muckle LLP – with sponsorship from One NorthEast and Business Link – are again teaming up to host this year’s event, service excellence 3.Read
NORTHUMBRIAN Water Group today warned a “dramatic increase” in energy prices will add more than £8m to its costs, but has pledged not to pass it on to customers.Read
PRIVATE and public sector organisations have much to learn from social enterprises, according to a Middlesbrough organisation, which has been held up as a model of good practice in the so-called 'third sector'.Read
ESCALATING oil prices and increasingly sophisticated deep sea technology could see the opening of as many as 300 new oils fields in the North Sea, a BBC documentary claims tonight, potentially giving a dramatic boost to Tees' offshore industry.Read
I speak, of course, of the ever-readable Geoffrey Bulmer of Billingham, a man who has kept the letters page in business since the late 1950s. Looking back, there is not, it seems, any subject on which he has not voiced a view. He is of the left, but can see and appreciate the arguments of the right. He comes from academia, but sees issues not through the tinted spectacles of the lecture theatre, but from the standpoint on the man or woman on the Billingham omnibus.Read
THE CRISIS hitting the region’s house builders sector has gathered pace with four major firms looking to shed jobs in order to survive the credit crunch.Read
BUDGET airline Ryanair has warned that its fares may have to rise 5% this year as costs increase. Chief executive Michael O’Leary said the airline would be grounding up to 20 aircraft this winter and forecast some airlines would go bust if oil stayed at $130 a barrel.Read
Andrew Mernin finds out why the region’s thriving trade links with Norway will not be drowned by the loss of DFDS’s Newcastle to Bergen ferry service.Read
