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NECC launches its skills policy report

A FEW simple skills reforms would give an economic boost to the region. That is the message from the North East Chamber of Commerce (NECC) which today launches its skills policy report, Bridging the Gap.Read

Downturn impacts on Sunderland Marine Mutual Insurance Company

A MARINE insurance firm has seen a significant fall in profits after pulling out of a number of markets in Central America and making only moderate increases to its written premiums.Read

Premier Waste Management returns to profit

A WASTE collection company owned by the taxpayer has returned to profits after managing to strip over £1m from its administrative costs.Read

Sunderland Marine Mutual Insurance sails into black

THE boss of a 127-year-old marine insurance company says the business is set for global growth after sailing back into the black.Read

Premier Waste Management hopes to clean up in new venture

COUNTY Durham waste firm Premier Waste Management is expanding its services out of its native North East to Yorkshire, and also has plans to enter the Midlands market.Read

Premier Waste have got a lot of bottle

A WASTE recycling firm is calling time on the number of bottles being sent to landfill by pubs in the Tees ValleyRead

Lyndsey Graham and Jamie Whitfield

Students given environmental challenge

THE region's largest independent waste management firm has launched a three month project in partnership with Newcastle College to ensure designers of the future become environmentally aware of their products.Read

Insurer set to shrug off the global downturn

THE boss of a 126-year-old insurance company says its global growth plans will not be hampered by last year’s £11.6m loss.Read

New NECC head goes on the attack

THE new president of the region's biggest business organisation yesterday launched an attack on the public sector, accusing it of being a case of "the tail wagging the dog".Read

Talent key to business of science

ONE of our early adverts for Netpark described it as the place where you can work with the brightest minds in the business of science. And the best brains in the science of business.Read

Lord Mandleson

£350m SMEs lifeline welcomed in North

SMALL business leaders in the North East have welcomed a £350m package of measures designed to help them weather the economic storm.Read

A refreshingly honest view

AS County Durham draws nearer to the launch of the new unitary authority in April 2009, the North East Chamber of Commerce (NECC) has seen a reinvigorated Durham committee. Members in the county have been called to action to help support the new authority bed in.Read

London penalties ‘harm North firms’

NORTH East firms are being put at risk by crippling tax rises amid an economic downturn, say businesspeople.Read

Teesside bucking recession trend

AS THE TUC predicted today that unemployment would rise by at least 30,000 nationally, a new report has given every indication that the region is sliding inexorably towards recession.Read

Teesside bucking recession trend

AS THE TUC predicted today that unemployment would rise by at least 30,000 nationally, a new report has given every indication that the region is sliding inexorably towards recession.Read

Money

Grateful thumbs up to £37bn bail-out

NORTH EAST business leaders have welcomed the Government’s £37bn cash injection into the banking system, hailing it as a “watershed day” for the financial markets and the region.Read

Welder

‘Thumbscrews’ put on small businesses

RISING costs and disappearing customers are putting the thumbscrews on small businesses that are struggling to cope as the economic crisis tightens its grip.Read

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