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Marmax Products supplies Cadbury World with furniture

A BUSINESS that transforms recycled rubbish into outdoor furniture is giving weary chocolate lovers somewhere to rest their legs.Read

Medical firm G-MED launches arterial fixation device

THE arterial catheter is a common sight in intensive therapy, high dependency and coronary care units around the country.Read

Newcastle firm Furniture Clinic puts in a polished performance

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

South Causey Inn goes from strength-to-strength

A FAMILY have completed an £800,000 expansion of their country house hotel.Read

Bank helps family South Causey Inn to expand

A FAMILY-OWNED hotel has been expanded with help from a loan from Lloyds TSB Commercial.Read

North East graduate creates Competitor Monitor tool

A WEB-BASED tool that gives e-tailers up-the-minute market intelligence has been created by an ambitious North East graduate.Read

Stanley couple take over running of Front Street Post Office

A COUPLE have taken over the running of their local Post Office, and have been happy to tell its six staff their jobs are secure.Read

Award to allow BLS to turn up the volume

EXPANSION is on the horizon for a Stanley business which makes amplifier transformers used by bands such as Blur, Kings of Leon and The Foo Fighters.Read

Intersnack invests £50,000 to create new range

A NORTH East snack-maker has invested £50,000 to create a range of new products.Read

Pie

Tindale & Stanton aims to put North East on map

A NORTH East baker has secured a supermarket deal to sell a pie it hopes will become as identifiable with the region as Cornish pasties are with the South West.Read

Jan Massey and daughter Melanie Crow

Photography for Little People prepares for US market

A BUSINESS started from a barrow in the Metrocentre in 2005 is preparing to make its first foray into the US market.Read

Free-range eggs

Free-range egg producer warns of industry crisis

FREE-RANGE egg producer Ian Chisholm is spearheading what he hopes will become a UK-wide campaign to fight for a fairer income for the sector.Read

Pom Bear crisps are made by Intersnack Ltd

Intersnack UK boss has eye on £250m sales

THE new boss of the North East's biggest snack company has plans to increase its sales from less than £80m to £250m in the next five years.Read

County Durham tag maker benefits from EID

A NORTH East agricultural wholesaler is benefiting from a surge in demand since the introduction of EID for sheep.Read

Etyres

County Durham couple set up tyre-fitting franchise

A COUPLE from County Durham have bounced back from the jolt of unemployment by setting up their own tyre-fitting franchise.Read

Rise in costs soaking up transport firms' profits

FIRMS that rely on fuel to drive their businesses are seeing their profits drip away due to the increasing cost of petrol and diesel.Read

Beamish Hall owners extend their activity centre

THE family owners of country house hotel Beamish Hall have extended their activity centre in the latest phase of a £7m redevelopment.Read

Pom Bear crisps are made by Intersnack Ltd

Jobs to be created at Durham firm Intersnack Ltd

AROUND 100 jobs will be created by food firm Intersnack UK as it steps up its expansion programme after making two multi-million pound acquisitions.Read

Tindale & Stanton closure won't affect staff numbers

POPULAR North East baker's Tindale & Stanton says the closure of its Gateshead bakery should help boost its bottom line as it toughs it out in a difficult market.Read

Greencroft Bottling Company proves a real glass act

A WINE bottling company is investing over £800,000 in its production line as part of efforts to grow its sales by £5m next year and become one of the biggest firms of its kind in Europe.Read

Trailer maker Schmitz Cargobull laments results

THE UK division of manufacturer Schmitz Cargobull has described its performance for the year up to March as "disappointing".Read

Raymond Oliver

Buy-out deal secures jobs at Geka Manufacturing

THE jobs of more than 100 workers at a threatened North East plastics factory have been saved in a management buy-out of the company.Read

Clinotherm is fired up for sales surge

A COMPANY that makes and fits linings into industrial furnaces has bounced back from the downturn in the steel industry and expects to grow its sales after completing £500,000 contract for Corus two months ahead of schedule.Read

Schmitz Cargobull

Axe falls for over 60 staff at Stanley factory

MORE than 60 jobs are being axed with the mothballing of a North East trailer factory run by a German firm, which had already cut 175 North East jobs in the last two years.Read

Trio launch new County Durham training company

A TRIO of workers from collapsed North East firm Skill Training have branched out on their own down the road from their former site. County Durham firm Skill Training went into administration at the end of last month, resulting in the loss of 53 jobs.Read

Skill Training Ltd training company collapses

COUNTY Durham learning provider Skill Training Ltd has gone into administration and more than 50 workers have lost their jobs.Read

New phase set to boost Beamish Hall Hotel

THE family owners of country house hotel Beamish Hall have launched the latest phase of a £7m redevelopment.Read

Jobs are lost at firms with McCreery links

MORE than 20 staff at two businesses partially owned by former Newcastle United midfielder David McCreery have been laid off.Read

Tony Cleary

Tony Cleary, Founder, Lanchester Wine Cellars

BUILDING one of the country's leading wine merchants and bottling plants has been a lifetime obsession for Tony Cleary.Read

Tom Macallan of Schmitz Cargobull

County Durham trailer firm profits' boost

A TRAILER maker has hit its first profit in years and hopes to expand and create up to 200 jobs after a restructure it says makes it a ‘world leader.’Read

New world opens up for Lanchester drinks company

CHANGES to European legislation could help a North East drinks firm expand its empire Down Under and increase its turnover by £6m to £24m within a year.Read

Golfers swing into action for children’s charities

GOLFERS from North East firms clubbed together and competed in a match to raise money for two of the region’s children’s charities. Read

Try storytelling old style

History and nostalgia are big business in the fast-paced 21st Century. Karen Dent discovers why trading on the past is good news for the region's economy.Read

New centre to be a home for entrepreneurs

A NEW £6.8m business centre with 45 office units has been opened in County Durham. Architectural and masterplanning practice Browne Smith Baker was commissioned to transform part of Tanfield Lea Business Park in Stanley, County Durham by designing office space and business accommodation.Read

Ian Edge, managing director of Quantum Specials

Quantum md wants jobs to stay in the North East

THE man who has led a £32.5m buy out of North East pharmaceuticals company Quantum Specials says he wants the company to be around for 150 years in the region.Read

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