AS businesses woke this morning to news that the multi-million SeaDragon project was now dead in the water, the tough job of assessing collateral damage in the supply chain began.Read
A TRADITIONAL soft drinks brewer has received the biggest ever order in its 104-year-history. Supermarket chain Waitrose have requested 200,000 bottles of traditional beer from Hexham-based firm Fentimans’.Read
THE region's engineering sector has been dealt another blow after last-ditch attempts to secure more than 1,000 North East jobs failed with the announcement a huge oil rig project will now be undertaken in Singapore, not Teesside.Read
MORE than 200 North East companies will be able to secure graduate talent for their business over the coming years with a £724,000 boost from the European Union.Read
TEES Valley Regeneration, which has led efforts to revive the economic fortunes of Teesside, is being wound up, having attracted more than £1bn of investment in its seven-year lifetime.Read
THE UK’s corporate tax system needs a strategic overhaul if investment in manufacturing is to drive the upturn and help build a high value UK economy, according to a review of the current approach by EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation.Read
GREEN support services group Eaga has announced plans to create 120 largely North East jobs on the back of its work on the national switchover from an analogue to a digital TV signal.Read
DEALING with the aftermath of redundancy can be a challenge which businesses have to overcome if they are to move forward successfully, says Tony Weightman of human resource consultancy Weightman Associates.Read
THE region's airports have had a tough time of it recently, with dwindling passenger numbers and the threat of greater taxes threatening the closure of even more routes to and from the region. Read
A GROUP of 10 students from English Martyrs Sixth Form College in Hartlepool have given their careers in engineering a kick-start following a five-month project with leading North-east recycling and waste company, SITA UK, at its Tees Valley energy-from-waste (EfW) plant.Read
HIT TV show The Apprentice, which starts a new series tonight with Teesside sarnie tycoon Rocky Andrews among the Alan Sugar wannabes, doesn’t send the right messages about management style in a recession.Read
CONSTRUCTION industry workers, including builders, scaffolders, roofers, electricians, joiners and painters, are being invited to a special safety training event in April .Read
A TEESSIDE company’s work on dismantling the largest fixed oil platform ever to be removed from the North Sea has been under the spotlight from members of a leading industry safety forum.Read
