BANKNOTE printer De La Rue today reported a strong rise in revenues and operating profits and said it is on target break through the £100m operating profits target in 2013/14.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
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 car dealership group Vertu is creating 19 jobs at its support centre in Gateshead to handle sales enquiries from customers nationwide.Read
A NEW service providing occupational health solutions for manufacturers has been launched by Collingwood Health and the Engineering Employers' Federation.Read
FAST-growing car dealership group Vertu says it will drive sales past the £1bn mark this year as it betters the UK motor market which is struggling with a lack of confidence.Read
THE region's largest commercial property landlord UK Land Estates has been given the go-ahead to build 200,000sq ft of much-needed new industrial space - with work expected to start within the next few months.Read
CONSTRUCTION group Koru Property Services has set out plans to build its fledgling minor works arm into a £1m- a-year division in the next 12 months after landing £400,000 of new investment.Read
ACQUISITIVE car dealership group Vertu Motors has wasted little time in securing its first purchase of 2012 after signing a £2m deal for a Vauxhall business.Read
CARILLION today said it expects strong growth in its underlying earnings and profits, just days after it told its 1,000 North East staff they could lose their jobs.Read
WORK from one of banknote printer De La Rue's factories in the South is set to be transferred to the North East and create up to 100 jobs, as the company pushes ahead with its plan to cut costs and improve efficiency.Read
ONE of the UK's leading industrialists has joined the board of a growing Tyneside company. Gateshead-based International Innovative Technologies Ltd (IIT) has strengthened its management team with the addition of Juergen Maier.Read
THE "challenging" economy has pushed down profits at Vertu, but the fast-growing motor group aims to exploit the situation by snapping up dealerships likely to become available because of the downturn.Read
FAST-GROWING motor dealership group Vertu today announced a fall in profits during what it said has been a challenging half-year with subdued consumer spending.Read
THE Government has been accused of not dealing with the "climate of fear" among small suppliers by rejecting calls to beef up the proposed supermarket adjudicator.Read
IT and office equipment group United Carlton is growing its public sector work despite the spending cuts and has secured a place with the Northern Procurement Group to bid for more.Read
TRANSPORT and defence security and communications firm Petards reported flat revenues and a slump in interim profits but said it still expects annual revenues to grow year-on-year.Read
A GATESHEAD manufacturing company has been shortlisted as one of the most improved companies in the UK, as part of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ Manufacturing Excellence Awards 2011.Read
A SPECIALIST engineering firm has seen profits more than double after sales increased by 13.4% to £11.2m as it benefits from a surge of activity in its key market.Read
FAIR trade organisation Traidcraft has more than doubled profit after a shake-up which it says will enable it to not only grow sales but increase its charitable work.Read
GATESHEAD builder Koru Property Services has begun work on its latest university contract in Newcastle, which is expected to create up to 30 jobs in the wider contract supply chain.Read
PROFITS have doubled at an oil and gas company just over two years since it was bought by an American firm, which says it will be making a major investment at its Gateshead site.Read