Oct
2008
Articles from 2nd Oct 2008
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Young buyers help online store to double its sales
Oct 02 2008 | Business News
FASHION e-tailer ASOS has produced more stunning sales figures as younger shoppers kept spending despite the slowdown gripping the rest of the high street. Read
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Domino effect on home dining
Oct 02 2008 | Business News
DOMINO’S Pizza has reported a fresh rise in sales as consumers opted to dine at home during the current economic turmoil. Read
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Mutual benefits of bringing academia into the workplace
Oct 02 2008 | Business News
Strengthening ties between the business and academic worlds has long been considered a key strategy for retaining talent in the region. Read
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Jean’s bright idea hits the road
Oct 02 2008 | Business News
A FORMER nurse is looking to expand her colourful walking stick business after winning a nationwide contract with a department store and moving into overseas markets. Read
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Creative agency in European expansion
Oct 02 2008 | Business News
NORTH East creative agency bgroup has opened its first European office as it looks to grow its turnover and create jobs. Read
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Serious work teaching via games
Oct 02 2008 | Business News
Computer gaming has grown up. Technology developed to amuse and entertain is also being used as a tool to educate and inform, as Karen Dent reports. Read
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World’s their oyster at growing ethical store
Oct 02 2008 | Business News
A GREEN online superstore hopes to see its turnover rocket from £2.3m to about £40m within four years after receiving a £1m cash injection. Read
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Buyout sees fuel group moving into renewables
Oct 02 2008 | Business News
THE purchase of a renewable energy company by an Aberdeen firm will help set it on a rapid growth curve, say its new owners. Read
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Come time to blame, remember this lot ...
Oct 02 2008 | Business News
WE are now reaching that part of the financial crisis which invariably follows the initial shock of failed banks and collapsing markets. Read
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Industry battles to stave off recession
Oct 02 2008 | Business News
RESEARCH shows UK manufacturing slipping into recession, but North East experts say it’s too early yet for that diagnosis. Read
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GAME OF THE WEEK: MOVING AND SHAKING FOR ALL THE FAMILY
Oct 02 2008 | Business News
Title: Family Trainer: Outdoor Challenge Read
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Protectors see profit in going international
Oct 02 2008 | Business News
ATECHNOLOGY firm is looking to break the £1m turnover mark after increasing the popularity of its anti-spam programme and planning to expand into foreign markets. Read
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Merger creates a major player
Oct 02 2008 | Business News
THE LATEST firm to emerge from a growing number of mergers in the legal services sector opened for business under a new banner this week. Read
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TERRACE Hill, the property development and investment group, which has operated from Stockton for nearly a decade, was celebrating this week, despite one of the gloomiest periods in the company’s history.
Oct 02 2008 | Business News
The group, which recently submitted proposals for a £45m retail and leisure development on the edge of Bishop Auckland, was named the North’s Property Company of the Year by the Estates Gazette. Among its mostly northern-based development portfolio is the ambitious transformation of Gateway Middlehaven at Middlesbrough into a shopping and leisure complex with a £30m retail outlet that could create 500 jobs. Read
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Jobs face the axe as slump bites deeper
Oct 02 2008 | Business News
KAREN McLAUCHLAN Read
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Latest buy is‘not the end’
Oct 02 2008 | Business News
HARTLEPOOL electronics manufacturer Stadium Group has bought a £300,000 power supplies manufacturer after revealing it had lost out on bidding wars for other firms. Read
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PM to address crisis
Oct 02 2008 | Business News
GORDON Brown is to set up an emergency committee to take charge of Britain’s response to the financial crisis, it was reported today. It is claimed it would be modelled on similar lines to Cobra, the Government’s crisis management committee, and would bring together ministers, officials and advisers. Its secretariat would be run from the Cabinet Office. The report comes as the US Senate passed a £385bn rescue package for the nation’s troubled economy. President George Bush said the measures were needed to stave off financial panic and avoid a “long and painful recession”. The Senate passed the bill by 74 votes to 25, but it must now pass to the lower house, which rejected similar proposals earlier this week. The plan, seen by many Americans as a $700bn bail-out of Wall Street, has had more than $100bn of sweeteners added to win support from members of the lower house. Read
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Food prices ‘need to rise’
Oct 02 2008 | Business News
WE HAVE had cheap food for too long and prices need to rise, according to a senior government advisor. Read
