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September 13, 2022

Build & Sustainability

Surgo Construction named contractor for Bede Homes’ £15 million Yarm scheme

A housebuilder has appointed a contractor to deliver a £15 million estate on the site of a former hotel and nightspot.

December 2, 2019

Uncategorised

North East SMEs being denied growth through market uncertainty

A growing number of SMEs in the North East are being held back from growth by the current market uncertainty, according to new research. Hitachi Capital’s latest Business Barometer for 2019 Q4 found that 53 per cent of small firms…

April 1, 2019

Business & Economy

Help to Buy really does speed up buying your own home, says Barratt Homes

New research from local housebuilder Barratt Homes North East shows that the government’s Help to Buy scheme can knock more than three years off the time it takes to get on the property ladder. Barratt surveyed around 1,600 of its…

November 22, 2022

Arts & Culture

Northumbria named UK’s best university by Times Higher Education Awards

A North East academic institution has been named university of the year.

January 5, 2017

Uncategorised

Warning signs for North East economy in latest QES

The findings for Quarter 4 were published today January 4, in the North East England Chamber of Commerce’s Quarterly Economic Survey. Scores have dropped across a series of key indicators, including domestic sales and workforce, illustrating slower growth rates. And the score for…

June 1, 2022

Business & Economy

MMC: Supporting the mental health of business owners

MMC Research & Marketing is looking to find out to what level the pandemic has affected business owner’s mental health and what kind of help does - and would - support them. Natasha McDonough explains

January 8, 2024

Promoted

A blueprint for growth

Specialist recruitment and outsourced talent services partner Jackson Hogg is known the North East over for helping clients across the science, technology, engineering and manufacturing sectors find their next generation of workers. And with such solid foundations in place,…

May 14, 2019

Technology

Adderstone Group back North East based counter terrorism firm

North East based property and investment business, Adderstone Group, has invested a seven-figure sum into OpenWorks Engineering, an award-winning, hi-tech product company which is developing security and counter-terrorism products. OpenWorks, which operates from premises in Stocksfield, Northumberland, has developed a…