ONE of the world’s leading construction businesses has shown its support for the future of manufacturing in the North East by adding two new apprentices to its 400-strong team.Read
THE strategy to reduce costs and drive sales of new products is paying off for data monitoring company Vianet, which predicts profits 25% higher than a year ago.Read
PUBS to petrol station data company Brulines has signed a 'significant' five-year extension to its contract with supermarket chain Morrison's fuel forecourts.Read
ONE of the region's biggest manufacturers has vowed to more than triple the number of apprentices is takes on each year as it prepares to take part in a major event aimed at tackling the North East's looming skills gap.Read
ODYSSEY Systems, the Tees Valley based business-to-business communications provider, has labelled a high court judge’s ruling a “complete waste of valuable resources”.Read
TELECOMS boss Mike Odysseas had been dodging bulls for a few days in Spain when he picked up the phone to me in Newcastle. But after a few hours of fleeing pain in the Pamplona bull run, the Teesside entrepreneur was used to firing up his computer and getting back to work.Read
ENVIRONMENTAL biotechnology firm CBio is hoping to build on the success of its product designed to stop gel build-up in fridges, by developing a product for air-conditioning systems.Read
A MARKETING and recruitment business which went into administration late last year with the loss of almost 40 jobs had debts of more than £1.1m, it has emerged.Read
ADMINISTRATOR PricewaterhouseCoopers has revealed that 711 jobs have been lost at construction firm Rok. Ninety-one workers on Teesside face weeks of uncertainty after the axe fell.Read
MORE than 150 construction workers in the North East are worried for their jobs after one of the industry’s biggest companies went into administration.Read
A STOCKTON-based business technology solutions company which has more than doubled in size and won a number of awards in its first two years has now set its sights on a £3.5m turnover by 2012.Read
CLEVELAND Biotech has contributed strains of bacteria to a product that uses a different approach to cleaning. Television ad breaks are peppered with scary stories about the deadly bacteria that lurk in the kitchen.Read
MCE Group, the Stockton-on-Tees- based engineering specialist, has completed a major project on behalf of Total for three massive offshore generators for a new Floating Production Storage Offloading (FPSO).Read
A BUILDER this week held a campaign in the centre of Newcastle calling on the Government to safeguard around 250,000 jobs in the UK by reducing the cost of private repair and maintenance work.Read