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Articles from 15th Jul 2009
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Top 250 Businesses - 2009
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
THE North-East Top 250 Companies ranks firms in order of turnover which is considered, for this purpose, a better indication of growth and success, than profit. Read
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Resilient airport is making plans
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
GLOBAL recession, rising oil prices and increased taxation are giving the aviation industry a turbulent ride. But Newcastle International Airport is still flying high. Read
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Authority shows way to succeed
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
FROM fish and chips to diagnostic systems, South Tyneside shows in its businesses the enterprise and determination needed to come through hard times. Read
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A flight to frustration
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
Measures are needed now to ensure our regional air services can continue to serve North East business, says Hugh Lang. Read
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Small but perfectly profitable
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
SMALL must be lovely in times of recession when staff overheads can be kept to a minimum. Amazingly, the records suggest that six companies in this year's Top 250 are turning over millions with fewer than 15 employees. Read
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Going from strength to strength
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
NEWCASTLE-born Professor Rob Dixon reflects on the year and a bit since he was appointed by Durham University to lead the Business School in its drive to maintain and enhance its position as one of the best in the UK and Europe. Read
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Our 'dream' is to instil a belief to compete on a global scale
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
IT has been a tough year for business and that equally applies to those at the top. Widely changed economic conditions will result in some shake-up in this year’s 250 table with some sectors – including financial, professional services and construction – particularly vulnerable to the effects of the recession and credit crunch. Read
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A future on wheels is electrifying
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
TO electrify or not? That’s the question puzzling many motorists. But Top 250 chart star Nissan has no doubt where the future lies. Read
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Flags fly again in the Valley
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
A 'NO' from Government has disappointed but not disheartened the Tees Valley area. Watch for its renewed vigour. Read
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Partnership working will lead to success
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
RECESSION calls for better use of property, something previously low on management agendas. Read
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Scrappage puts a smile on faces
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
CAR sales may have dropped 50% in darkest weeks recently but Benfield Motor Group has climbed three places to 23rd in the Top 250. Read
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World trade a bright spot
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
THE economic downturn is having a significant impact on the North East economy yet, despite a fall in exports at the end of last year, the region’s international trade performance is still one of the few bright spots. Read
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Still engine room of region
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
HOME for many of the region's Top 250 companies, Tyne and Wear has much to offer growing businesses. Read
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'Netting' success by tapping into skills on the doorstep
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
IT is important where possible to safeguard jobs, but equally important to retain a competitive edge. Read
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Green and pleasant land
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
THERE'S more to Northumberland in commercial opportunity than a casual glance at the Top 250 might suggest. Read
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'Work from home' now a titan of the roads
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
NORTHGATE PLC, sponsor of the Top 250, is a perfect example of how, in the North East, little business acorns can grow into giant oaks. Read
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Enriching winds blow off the coast
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
BIG opportunities are dawning in sustainable technology for North East companies. Read
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Big deals made in the city
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
THE size and quality of the Brewin Dolphin operation in Newcastle is now much better known as a result of a successful marketing campaign to raise the profile of the business (formerly known as Wise Speke) – and a move to prestigious new offices at Time Central last year. Read
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Passport to an industry
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
VARIOUS initiatives have been launched in recent years to help plug the gap that the decline of manufacturing industries left in the region. Read
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Digital acorns grow well
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
IN today's digital world you don’t need to be in the USA to succeed. Digital business can make some very serious money, regardless of where it is. Read
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Where Sugar can sweeten the pill
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
APPRENTICES are vital to the well-being of the region's industries big and small. Read
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It pays to the keep chins up
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
RECESSION stress among workforces doesn't go away by ignoring it, and bosses help their firms as well as the stress sufferers if they step in. Read
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Wealth of expertise is on hand for local companies
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
DURHAM Business School has a solid reputation for providing a wide range of support to regional businesses, including “members” of the Top 250. Read
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Not just any port in a storm
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
LIKE many businesses, award-winning port owner and operator PD Ports has had 12 difficult months of trading. But Teesport is shaping up for future growth. Read
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Energy burst beckons for Port of Tyne
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
ANDREW Moffat says Port of Tyne, while facing up to a more difficult trading period, it is also preparing for clear opportunities ahead. Read
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Profits up for many despite the stock market gloom
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
SAGE again heads the list of profitability in 2008 – the sole North East-based constituent of the FTSE 100 index, following the loss of Northern Rock early in the year. Read
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Painful year but opportunities show for the brave
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
THE last year has seen extremely volatile market conditions, unprecedented to all but the most experienced of investors. Read
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Why these 250 must be feted
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
IF the region's top firms overcome the challenges ahead, they will benefit countless other businesses around them. Read
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Business Link gives support to meet the challenges
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
THE latest Top 250 list reminds us that despite its challenges the North East has many outstanding firms contributing vastly to the regional economy. Read
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Join up and share in success
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
ORGANIC growth of our economy depends partly on members of the Top 250 endorsing and using expertise of services on their doorstep. Read
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Where 'going concern' raises concern
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
MANY companies in the North East are feeling the strain of the credit crunch, which is inevitably putting a lot of pressure on their business. Read
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Whole region gives Nissan a push
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
NISSAN has been edged out of top place in the 250, but it's certainly not sidelined in the region's economic strategy. Read
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Don't forget the Darwin theory, to be adaptable is to succeed
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
EACH company on the Top 250 list is a great ambassador for the North East, and delivers so much more value than the bare financial results suggest. Read
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Go-Ahead leads the level peggers
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
GO AHEAD leads this year’s 17 level peggers in the Top 250, retaining fourth position. Despite the loss of some 600,000 jobs in the City affecting the group’s commuter receipts – and a cut of more than 750 in its own workforce – Go Ahead remains optimistic, saying main rail business is robust and showed a rise within the £3.5m climb in first half rail operating profits recently. Read
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Should the Rock industrialise?
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
TURNING Northern Rock into an industrial credit bank would greatly help companies of our region to weather the recession. Read
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Reasons to be cheerful
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
THERE are more tough times to come, but reason also to expect some positives to appear in the North East economy. Read
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On land and sea, opportunity
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
FINANCE to help extract more North Sea reserves, and a prospect of new nuclear plants at Hartlepool and elsewhere, add up to opportunity for firms in the region, says George Rafferty. Read
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250 reasons to celebrate
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
WHILE we must be realistic about challenges the North East faces, the region's Top 250 justifies a celebration of our region's business standard bearers. Read
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World leadership within reach
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
THROUGH its history, industrial heritage and geographical location, North East England has become an attractive location for the process industries. Read
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Arriva motors ahead in downturn
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
GIVEN the straitened times in which we live, it seems appropriate that a car manufacturer is replaced by a bus and train operator at the top of our prestigious list of the North East’s 250 biggest companies today. Read
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Little forces, big opportunity
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
THE global defence, security and aerospace industry today generates around £2bn annually in the North of England and secures more than 20,000 jobs there. Read
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Give backing, not rhetoric
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
AN ongoing revival in manufacturing will need favourable conditions for competition and investment. Read
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Derwentside is bustling
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
THERE'S been a bit of bustle about industry in Derwentside to judge from the 37 new entries and re-entries in the Top 250. Read
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Cumbrian makes a splash
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
HIGHEST new entry in this year's Top 250 is Cumbrian Holdings, a name relatively new on this region’s workpatch – but in fact the UK’s third largest chilled seafood supplier. Read
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Engineers among biggest climbers
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
STOCKTON'S where to see engineering flourish. Three of the 28 biggest climbers in this year’s Top 250 are engineering firms from there, all with turnovers up. Read
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Arriva arrives in number one spot
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
IN a glory battle between public and private transport Arriva has pulled just in front of motor manufacturer Nissan to head this year’s listing of the North East Top 250 companies. Read
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Interesting times we live in
Jul 15 2009 | Top 250 2009
WE predicted last year that the North East Top 250 listing for 2009 would be fascinating due to the challenging times ahead. Read
