Aug 10 2011 | Business News
MIDDLESBROUGH is in the running for one of the Government’s new local TV stations. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Business News
A BRIEF housing market rally in the region has been cut short, new figures have revealed. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Business News
MORE than 1,300 people have already applied for the wave of new jobs at the SSI steelworks in Redcar. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Business News
JOBS could be coming to Teesside after a French manufacturing group announced it had opened a new distribution company for the UK market. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Business News
BUILDING services group Northern Bear today reported flat sales and profits and but said the results showed the resilience of the business in tough times. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Business News
ACCOUNTANCY firm Deloitte has seen a return to growth at its North East and Yorkshire business with revenues of £80m in the year to the end of March compared with £75m a year earlier. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Business News
OIL and gas maintenance technology company PII has managed to dramatically reduce its losses and increase its sales after securing a string of contracts in the Far East. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Business News
THE Royal Wedding and the extra spring bank holidays cost Greggs around £2m but the bakery giant still managed to serve up higher sales. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Business News
THE Carlbury Nurseries Garden Centre at Piercebridge, County Durham, has been sold to garden and agricultural suppliers Sam Turner & Sons, of Northallerton. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Business News
A SOFTWARE business that helps local authorities tender out public sector contracts expects to double its sales and workforce after increasing its trade in the private sector. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Business News
SUNDERLAND chemistry firm Onyx Scientific has been bought by Indian contract manufacturer Ipca Laboratories in a deal it says will help it to provide a full development service to pharmaceutical companies. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Business News
SHOE firm the Clinkard Group has continued to grow its profits and turnover despite difficult trading conditions on the UK’s high street. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Business News
THE chief executive of Gateshead-based security firm Petards is to resign from his job at the end of this year. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Business News
INTERCONTINENTAL Hotels Group (IHG) is to push ahead with a major hotel opening programme in the UK as it revealed soaring first-half profits. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Business News
HOPES for an export-led recovery in the UK economy have been dealt a blow after official figures uncovered a widening in the country’s trade gap in June. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Business News
UNION leaders reacted with anger yesterday to the news that banking giant Lloyds is to axe another 1,300 jobs. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Business News
A FURNITURE designer who helped to kit out Downing Street during the Blair years will be welcoming Cherie Blair back to the North East to open his new production base. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Business News
A COMMUNICATIONS firm has doubled its exports with contract wins as far afield as Africa and the Middle East which has pushed its overall sales up by a quarter. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Business News
Cuts to the funding of voluntary groups and charities performing vital services are causing widespread concern. But will the Government’s much-trumpeted Big Society concept be able to ensure these services remain – and will it, as hoped, result in more social enterprises being set up? Karen Dent reports. Read