A WEEK-LONG drive to highlight the importance of apprenticeships to the North East's economy starts today with business leaders calling on more firms to start schemes.Read
A FAN invented by two Newcastle University students which helps make houses warmer for less than a pound a year has taken a step closer to production.Read
THE reporting season gathers pace next week when some of the UK’s biggest companies unveil their annual figures, including oil giant BP, banking group Barclays and the country’s largest pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline.Read
THE largest health club group in the world, Fitness First, is facing tough discussions with its lenders as it moves close to breaching bank loan terms.Read
HAMLEYS is eyeing further overseas expansion today after strong demand for toys based on Harry Potter and other films over Christmas left it on track for a record year.Read
A MULTI-million homes and leisure development which will include state-of-the-art “air dome sports facilities” has been given the green light by Hartlepool Borough Council.Read
ENGINEERING academics and business leaders from across the world are heading to Sunderland this year for a specialist maintenance conference held in the UK for the first time.Read
TANKER drivers who deliver fuel to Jet garages have started a fresh series of strikes in Stockton and other towns after peace talks failed to resolve a row over pay and conditions.Read
ARECORD 180,000 people took part in events organised by Nova International last year, and the company is hoping to boost its popularity beyond the UK in future.Read
COULD your business make the leap to Thailand, Vietnam or Indonesia? Firms are being encouraged to think about potential markets in Asia this month at two events run by UK Trade and Investment (UKTI).Read
MILLER Homes North East has predicted that 2012 will be the year of the investor and investor sales are set to rocket, with private landlords returning to the property market for the first time in more than three years.Read
TECHNOLOGY group Onyx plans to spend its entire £15m war chest this year as it prepares for another year of growth that it hopes will push profits up by 50%.Read
