PROFITS at Cumbrian paper maker James Cropper have dropped 25% as it struggles to digest high energy and pulp prices. The 158-year-old company said yesterday it expected tough trading conditions to continue this year – and is looking at long-term projects to cut energy bills.Read
A LEGISLATIVE threat to a North East meter-reading company’s market has seen it launch a new venture which it says will help raise turnover to £90m and create over 100 additional jobs.Read
AFAMILY business which is the sole UK distributor of a fuel efficiency product which is claimed to cut hundreds of pounds off annual motoring bills is preparing to expand as fuel prices soar.Read
THE GOVERNMENT'S call for householders to invest in micro green power could be hindered by the prohibitively high licensing fees it charges tradesmen to fit them, according to one new Marske business.Read
BIOFUELS bosses on Teesside are bracing themselves for another PR disaster hitting the industry tomorrow as the widely trailed Gallagher review on sustainable biofuels is published.Read
COMPANIES can put themselves in the picture with the professional talents available at the company which owns The Journal and the Evening Chronicle.Read
TEESSIDE’S leading organisation representing the engineering sector, The Tees Valley Engineering Partnership, has relaunched as an independent company.Read
WHERE were you in 1985 when Sam Torrance rolled in the winning putt to clinch the Ryder Cup for Europe. For that matter, how about 1991 when Ian Woosnam took the Masters title in Augusta. Or Sandy Lyle’s dramatic win at The Open in 1985.Read
Problems in the credit markets and dramatic share price falls have forced some of the region’s up-and-coming companies to rethink flotation plans. Peter McCusker reports.Read
IF anyone needed proof of just how seriously the Bank of England is taking the prospect of spiralling inflation just now, they should have been at the North East Chamber of Commerce Durham and Tees Valley dinner last week.Read
BARCLAYS Bank is creating 85 new jobs at its contact centre in Sunderland just a month after US banking giant Citigroup announced it would shut its 400-worker centre in the city.Read
A PRINTING company which handles 3,000 orders a day and gains 50 customers a month has increased its factory space by 60% as it aims to increase annual turnover by 33% to £12mRead
