MEDICAL testing company IDS has seen its profits more than treble amidst soaring growth in global demand for pioneering products which detect disease and the firm is now looking to create 50 jobs.Read
THE nuclear division of engineering giant Amec is doubling its North East workforce as it looks to increase its profile in an energy sector poised for rapid growth.Read
STOCKTON data management firm Brulines Group said a stalled acquisition bid was not dead in the water as it announced solid half-year results this morning.Read
STAIRLIFT manufacturer ThyssenKrupp is to rescope its business at Stockton, which will cease assembly of new products and concentrate instead on sales, marketing and service.Read
A TEES Valley security firm, which lost out in the property crash as developers abandoned sites and its core business melted away, is hoping to emerge from the slump by building business on the back of close protection, retail surveillance and crowd control contracts at the London Olympics.Read
SPREADING the word of God is something a Tyneside audio visual company is asked to help with quite often, but venturing into a Buddhist monastery for the first time was quite a new experience.Read
THE Dubai government has refused to guarantee the debt of Dubai World, which caused panic on stock markets around the world because it cannot pay back creditors immediately.Read
ONLINE auctioneer eBay has been fined £1.5m by a Parisian court which ruled that it had not kept to an injunction banning users from selling on LVMH perfumes.Read
CONSUMERS repaid a record level of unsecured debt during October as they continued to focus on improving their finances in the face of the recession.Read
TRAVEL giant Thomas Cook says that holidaymakers are determined to take their summer break despite the recession as the firm posted better than expected results.Read
A DARLINGTON entrepreneur who began by selling watches over the internet two years ago is now counting down to his first million after adding another string to his on-line bow.Read
