Aug
2008
Articles from 4th Aug 2008
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Go green for furniture for the future
Aug 04 2008 | Business News
MIDDLESBROUGH’S Barker & Stonehouse is set to change the face of furniture retailing with a pioneering green scheme that sets out to help both the environment and the people of Indonesia. Read
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Fears of tax precedent
Aug 04 2008 | Business News
WOULD a windfall tax on energy firms set a dangerous precedent for British industry? Read
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A66 upgrade nears end
Aug 04 2008 | Business News
ONE OF the most challenging projects ever undertaken by Stockton based consultants Faithful+Gould is drawing to a close on the A66. Read
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Plain to see Victoria has a purler of a business
Aug 04 2008 | Business News
A CRAFTY company is sewing up the market for hand-knitted period stage costumes. Socks made by the Almost Unwearoutable Company are currently treading the West End boards on the feet of Jeremy Irons in his role as former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Read
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We’ll get through
Aug 04 2008 | Business News
BUSINESS leaders on Teesside say they are surprised at an influential new survey, which claims North-east manufacturing is in “steep decline”. Read
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Rush to back biomass plan
Aug 04 2008 | Business News
TEESSIDE engineering firms eager to supply the green energy sector have been flooding into the London HQ of MGT Power - the firm behind plans to bring one of the biggest biomass plants in the UK to Teesport. Read
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Date set for Rock shares hearing
Aug 04 2008 | Business News
NORTHERN Rock shareholders’ pressure for a judicial review into the way the bank was nationalised has finally borne fruit. Read
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Stevens will chair security business
Aug 04 2008 | Business News
LORD Stevens, the former Metropolitan Police commissioner, has revealed his ambitious expansion plans for a North East security business after buying a stake in the company. Read
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20% of Rock customers face negative equity
Aug 04 2008 | Business News
Around a fifth of mortgage customers of Newcastle-based Northern Rock face the prospect of negative equity next year as house prices slump, it has been reported. Read
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North optimism despite slowdown
Aug 04 2008 | Business News
THE economic slowdown is biting deep into business confidence across the North East but the regional picture is not as bleak as many other parts of the UK, according to the CBI. Read
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Dubai boost for global trade
Aug 04 2008 | Business News
TRADE AND INVESTMENT Read
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Agricultural land could be next big thing
Aug 04 2008 | Business News
THE outlook for commodities? Investors will have taken a pounding this year on the back of turbulent market conditions, but some of their pain will have been soothed if they have had oil and commodity stocks, the latest “in vogue” investments. Read
