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		<title>BT deal creates 50 jobs at Spark Response contact centre</title>
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		<title>Gateshead firm Spark Response secures two new contracts</title>
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		<title>Spark Response to take calls for Sports Relief</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>CONTACT centre Spark Response will be helping to handle some of the expected hundreds of thousands of calls from the public pledging donations to this year&#8217;s Sports Relief.</p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Spark Response buys fashion label Frank &amp; Faith</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>FASHION label Frank & Faith will join the growing ranks of ethical companies owned by contact centre and fulfillment specialist Spark Response.</p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Action stations as Spark Response bosses dive in</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>BOSSES at Gateshead contact and fulfillment centre Spark Response are ditching their desks and getting to grips with picking and packing to ensure the team copes with the Christmas rush.</p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Peter Slee, Managing Director, Spark Response</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>FROM a 'job for life' in banking to playing a pivotal role in developing contact centres and e-commerce in the North East. Karen Dent meets Sunderland FC ball boy turned Spark Response managing director Peter Slee.</p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Spark Response is ready for festive season</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 07:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Call centres seen as a stopgap job in the North East</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>IT may be a growing industry which employs one in 20 people in the North East but many still see a job in the contact centre industry as nothing but a temporary stopgap on the way to a job they really want to do, according to new research from Durham University.</p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Ethical Superstore sold when investors pulled out</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>THE country&#8217;s biggest online fair trader Ethical Superstore has confirmed its sale last week to Spark Response was partly prompted by the withdrawal of key investors.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Spark buys Ethical Superstore</title>
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