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Businesses tough it out during 2010

nebusiness.co.uk — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:59:00 GMT

IN searching for a shorthand way to characterise the fortunes of the North East business community during 2010, I am tempted to borrow one of those horribly cliched football phrases.

Welcome for landmark new £125m funding pot

nebusiness.co.uk — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:58:00 GMT

A £125m fund designed to support North East businesses for the next five years was launched at the Ramside Hall Hotel in Durham.

Band plays on as plant goes down

nebusiness.co.uk — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:56:00 GMT

A BRASS band played outside the gates of Teesside Cast Products as work began to mothball the Redcar plant, with the loss of 1,600 jobs.

Good news for North car giant

nebusiness.co.uk — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:55:00 GMT

NISSAN workers in the North East were celebrating after the car company revealed it had been handed £20m by the Government to refit its Washington plant to build the Leaf electric car.

Celebration time for top IT business

nebusiness.co.uk — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:51:00 GMT

FAST-growing Teesside data security firm Onyx was awarded the coveted North East Company of the Year award for 2009 at the nebusiness awards.

Triple contracts collapse is curtains for call centre

nebusiness.co.uk — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:49:00 GMT

THE loss of three major contracts in a matter of days spelled the end for the North East’s biggest call centre, as Garlands called in the administrators.

Arriva confirms status as biggest company in region

nebusiness.co.uk — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:40:00 GMT

TRANSPORT giant Arriva - which earlier in the year agreed to be taken over by German firm Deutcshe Bahn - remained at the top of The Journal Top 200 list of the region’s biggest businesses, keeping Nissan in second place for the second year running.

End for One North East announced

nebusiness.co.uk — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:40:00 GMT

NEW Business Secretary Vince Cable confirmed regional development agency One North East is to be abolished.

Northern Rock’s 'bad bank' returns to profit

nebusiness.co.uk — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:35:00 GMT

NORTHERN Rock confirmed that its asset management business, which holds most of the mortgages on the former bank’s books, had returned to profit.

Projects are hit as One scales down

nebusiness.co.uk — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:20:00 GMT

THE North East economy was dealt a substantial blow after the Government unveiled £33m worth of public sector cuts.