ANTI-COUNTERFEITING specialist OpSec Security has plunged into the red after a difficult 12 months of lower sales to international governments, and costs associated with a bid to take over the company.Read
ANTI-COUNTERFEITING specialist OpSec Security fell in to a pre-tax loss as revenues dipped during what the company said was a "disappointing" year.Read
INDUSTRIAL services group Hargreaves has started extracting coal on the site of one of the world’s oldest deep mines helped by a £21.5m funding package from the Newcastle team at Lloyds Bank.Read
RETRO football top maker The Old-Fashioned Football Shirt Company (TOFFS) has signed two major licensing deals and is looking at the Japanese market in what is proving to be a busy year.Read
SOFTWARE specialist Datawright has signed a six-figure deal with a marine sector supplier in China as it explores new opportunities in the country.Read
THE BOSS of rapidly expanding Vertu Motors says his experience of the current market throws doubt on the official statistics that the UK has entered a double-dip recession.Read
FAST-GROWING manufacturer Wessington Cryogenics is expanding into new premises at Castletown in Sunderland and creating 30 jobs this year following new global contract wins.Read
THE company which makes shoes for some of the world's best athletes has landed a £12m investment it hopes will help it hike worldwide sales by 50% this year.Read
DWINDLING consumer confidence has been felt over at Sunderland sofa retailer ScS, which saw its turnover fall by 4.1% in the year to the end of July 2011.Read
NORTH East mining and renewable company the Banks Group is looking to grow its portfolio of onshore wind farms, despite recording a £1.5m fall in earnings.Read
THE acquisition of skip hire firm Rocktop Waste Management has given growing North East firm O'Brien Waste Recycling Solutions a firmer foothold on Wearside.Read
AERIAL lift specialist Tanfield reported an 11% jump in annual turnover and an almost 300% increase in its order book as growth returned to its markets.Read
MOTOR vehicle parts maker Unipres UK is expecting to bring in another 200 staff in the next couple of years due to increased demand from clients including Nissan and Honda.Read
Coal is being delivered from Tower Colliery in the Rhondda Valley in Wales to Aberthow Power Station, with which it has a three-year supply contract.Read
SUNDERLAND College is set to introduce nearly 700 new terminals and a wireless network across its five campuses, in order to give its students better access to new technology.Read
FOUR months after seeing how his company's donation had changed the lives of thousands of the world's poorest people, utility services boss Neil Armstrong has pledged a further £77,000 towards clean water initiatives in Nepal.Read
A YOUNG entrepreneur who turned the leather cleaning business his father started in his garage into a business with customers worldwide including fashion houses and luxury car firms has doubled its sales in the last year.Read
SOCIAL engineering is no part of a university's role and if the government thinks otherwise Durham University vice chancellor Prof Christopher Higgins will soon put it right, as Peter Jackson discovers.Read
FAST-GROWING car dealership group Vertu is creating 19 jobs at its support centre in Gateshead to handle sales enquiries from customers nationwide.Read
AN innovative North East company has won more than £670,000 investment to roll out production of a green building material it has developed which it hopes will revolutionise the construction industry.Read