THE enterprising boss of The Officers Club says he expects the menswear retailer which collapsed at Christmas to turn in sales worth around £50m this year.Read
A FAST-growing IT and office equipment business which has just moved into bigger premises is aiming to pick up the pace of expansion by looking at a possible acquisition.Read
A PUBLICLY-RUN organisation set up to help unemployed people to find work has been taken over by the group that provides the North East's Business Link service.Read
MEDICAL testing kit company Immunodiagnostic Systems plans to win new markets around the world after seeing its sales soar by more than 50% in the first of the year.Read
ALMOST 80,000 new jobs will be created over the next four years as thousands of new technology firms set up in business in the UK, technology giant Microsoft has forecast.Read
INSURANCE group Aviva has revealed that it will float part of its Dutch business Delta Lloyd in the next month, in a move expected to raise at least £1bn.Read
THOUSANDS of engineering construction workers have rejected an offer on pay and conditions aimed at resolving a long-running row at power stations and other sites across the UK.Read
THE motor industry’s recovery from the recession is set to continue, according to new figures which will show an increase in new car sales in Britain.Read
A PUBLICLY-RUN organisation set up to help unemployed people to find work has been taken over by the group that provides the North-east’s Business Link service.Read
NEARLY £50m will be taken out of the Tees Valley economy as a result of planned national insurance (NI) rises, according to new research by the Conservatives.Read
THE funder behind a Bluetooth marketing scheme in Middlesbrough’s Hillstreet shopping centre is planning to roll out the technology in at least one other Teesside retail outlet by the New Year.Read
TODAY marks the tenth anniversary of the formation of steel giant Corus. The Corus named was revealed in 1999 as the new moniker for the group formed by the merger of British Steel and Dutch giant Koninklijke Hoogovens; and shares in Corus began trading on October 6, 1999. Today Corus employs around 3,500 staff at sites across Tees Valley.Read
THE British Retail Consortium described last Christmas as “the worst since 1995” but retailers are hoping that the reintroduction of the 17.5% VAT rate in January next year - which was reduced to 15% last year - will spark a surge of pre-Christmas sales.Read
BUSINESS Link is urging the region’s companies to showcase their achievements at the nebusiness awards 2009, as they pledge their support as associate sponsors of the event for the third year running.Read
