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Feb 2 2008
ALMOST 70 North-East firms have taken their first “steppe” into Russia at an exporting seminar....
Feb 2 2008
GROWTH among manufacturing firms almost ground to a halt in January amid signs of a global economic slowdown, figures showed yesterday....
Feb 2 2008
A FIRM which makes kitchen components has revealed plans for a new £10m manufacturing plant which will create around 100 new jobs....
Feb 2 2008
THE battle for control of Rio Tinto has taken a dramatic twist after it a Chinese group – Chinalco – and US firm Alcoa snapped up a 12% stake in the mining group....
Feb 2 2008
ONE of the last textile manufacturers in the region has gone into administration. Dewhirst Accessories in Blyth, which employs around 68 manufacturing staff and was once part of the giant Dewhirst empire, is also understood to have shed dozens of agency staff in the past year as business dried up....
Feb 2 2008
IN THE regional portfolio, investment house HSBC upgraded its recommendation on pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline from “underweight” to “neutral”....
Feb 2 2008
SOFTWARE giant Microsoft has thrown down the gauntlet to Google’s online dominance with a $44.6bn (£22.4bn) approach for internet search engine Yahoo!....
Feb 2 2008
THERE are too few personalities in today’s workaholic world. The characters that stamp their mark on our memories are too often squeezed out by conformity....
Feb 2 2008
CAR manufacturing giant Nissan has revealed global profits are up by nearly a fifth, just a day after saying it will create 800 jobs at its Washington plant....
Feb 2 2008
Rio Tinto was the strongest climber and closed 12.99% up – an increase of 644p to 5599p....
