Mar
2009
Articles from 3rd Mar 2009
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Lord of the manor
Mar 03 2009 | Business News
He couldn’t skipper a yacht, but care home boss Matt Matharu admits that in business sometimes you have to sail close to the wind. SUE SCOTT met him Read
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HSBC in £12.5bn cash call to shareholders
Mar 03 2009 | Business News
EUROPE’S biggest bank HSBC has joined the growing list of financial institutions looking for help to weather the recession, with a call on shareholders for a record £12.5bn after its profits slid 62% last year. Read
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Estate has the pulling power
Mar 03 2009 | Business News
PORTRACK has become a magnet for some of the country’s leading brands... Read
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Change of course for winningentrepreneur
Mar 03 2009 | Business News
As nebusiness prepares to launch this year’s If We Can, You Can competition in association with the North-east Entrepreneurs’ Forum, we looked back on a year of change for the 2008 Teesside winner, Matt Stirland Read
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Log onand beinspired
Mar 03 2009 | Business News
THE 2009 If We Can You Can challenge to find Teesside’s most promising entrepreneurs launches on March 9. Read
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Hall still attraction
Mar 03 2009 | Business News
BILLINGHAM’S Belasis Hall Business Park is bucking the trend in the commercial property sector with the letting of new office space to Ashbrook Construction Services. Read
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Can the Valley tap in to the EU’s green vision?
Mar 03 2009 | Business News
The economic downturn, far from hindering the move to a low-carbon economy, should be the lever that propels the region forwards. By SUE SCOTT in Brussels and KELLEY PRICE on Teesside Read
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Young show enterprising spirit
Mar 03 2009 | Business News
A STAGGERING 1,300 budding young entrepreneurs attended the first Cloud 9 event to stimulate enterprising young minds - overwhelming organisers from the Enterprenenurs’ Forum. Read
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Bid to put landon the register
Mar 03 2009 | Business News
The UK Land Registry is targeting solicitors with a new on-line microsite that encourages them to persuade clients to register property. Read
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Marcus making rug pile
Mar 03 2009 | Business News
RETAIL entrepreneur Marcus Dicken is hoping to build a £10m retail empire on the stamping ground of his family’s former business. Read
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Five-star treat for tastebuds
Mar 03 2009 | Business News
ROCKCLIFFE Hall, Boro boss Steve Gibson’s luxury leisure and hotel complex, is drawing closer to its 2009 opening with a £1m investment in catering facilities set to deliver a five-star experience in a region that’s rocketing up the fine dining league. Read
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Blood testing device will boost IDS sales
Mar 03 2009 | Business News
A MEDICAL testing company is entering what it believes will the biggest growth spurt in its history after launching an automated version of its blood testing device. Read
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Simon says Agile
Mar 03 2009 | Business News
A MIDDLESBROUGH entrepreneur has unveiled plans to build a £10m IT business and create around 100 jobs in the next five years. Read
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Ports put 5,000-job deep water terminal on hold
Mar 03 2009 | Business News
TALKS are under way over a sale of a stake in the region’s biggest port operator as it emerged that plans to build a new deep water terminal at its Teesside operation – creating 5,000 jobs – have been delayed for at least a year due to the recession. Read
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Rig plan ‘good case’
Mar 03 2009 | Business News
THE company behind the stalled Sea- Dragon project is giving “serious” consideration to a bid by a newly-formed alliance to keep the work in the North-east. Read
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Bar designer raises a glass to new TV venture
Mar 03 2009 | Business News
A TYNESIDE bar and interior designer has been chosen to put together the sets for hit BBC comedy Gavin and Stacey. Read
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Orders falling further
Mar 03 2009 | Business News
A RAFT of depressing data has shed new light on the economic gloom engulfing the region’s embattled manufacturing sector. Read
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Step up to mark
Mar 03 2009 | Business News
TEESSIDE “shouts out” as being an enterprising region, according to the acting head of the North-east’s Make Your Mark, the enterprise programme for young people. Read
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Cashing in on a growing potential
Mar 03 2009 | Business News
THE pull of Portrack has lured McDonald’s and B&Q to Tees Valley ... and now local developers are cashing in. Read
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Co-op completes £1.6bn takeover of Somerfield chain
Mar 03 2009 | Business News
THE Co-operative Group today completed its £1.6bn takeover of grocery chain Somerfield, a move cementing its position as the UK’s fifth largest food retailer. Read
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Tesco expansion to create 200 jobs
Mar 03 2009 | Business News
SUPERMARKET giant Tesco has announced a plan to create more than 200 finance jobs with the expansion of its banking operation. Read
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Rock results reveal heavy losses
Mar 03 2009 | Business News
THE number of homes being repossessed by Northern Rock rocketed by 63% as the Newcastle-based bank today revealed annual losses of £1.36bn. Read
