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Top 250 Businesses Jul 15 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

Staff lead work to make own offices ‘lean’ Jul 17 2009

ABUSINESS support company is practising what it preaches. Business Impact UK has adopted the expertise it shares with its clients and used it as part of a lean office programme.Read

Arriva arrives in number one spot Jul 15 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

Interesting times we live in Jul 15 2009

WE predicted last year that the North East Top 250 listing for 2009 would be fascinating due to the challenging times ahead.Read

Engineers among biggest climbers Jul 15 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

Cumbrian makes a splash Jul 15 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

Derwentside is bustling Jul 15 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

Go-Ahead leads the level peggers Jul 15 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

Whole region gives Nissan a push Jul 15 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

250 reasons to celebrate Jul 15 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

Reasons to be cheerful Jul 15 2009

THERE are more tough times to come, but reason also to expect some positives to appear in the North East economy.Read

Should the Rock industrialise? Jul 15 2009

TURNING Northern Rock into an industrial credit bank would greatly help companies of our region to weather the recession.Read

Don't forget the Darwin theory, to be adaptable is to succeed Jul 15 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

Join up and share in success Jul 15 2009

ORGANIC growth of our economy depends partly on members of the Top 250 endorsing and using expertise of services on their doorstep.Read

Give backing, not rhetoric Jul 15 2009

AN ongoing revival in manufacturing will need favourable conditions for competition and investment.Read

On land and sea, opportunity Jul 15 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

World leadership within reach Jul 15 2009

THROUGH its history, industrial heritage and geographical location, North East England has become an attractive location for the process industries.Read

Little forces, big opportunity Jul 15 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

Arriva motors ahead in downturn Jul 15 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

Where 'going concern' raises concern Jul 15 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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