Business News Bulletins

Thursday evening business bulletin

Guinness-to-Smirnoff drinks firm Diageo has cooled celebrations over £2bn profits by warning that growth may be weaker in the current year. Read

Northern Rock survey

What went wrong?

A chance to have your say on the crisis which rocked the region in our new survey. Read

Latest North-East Business News

Durham Pipeline Technology's Nick Pearson, left, Dr Jonathan Southgate, centre, and recently retired technical director Prof Ernie Appleton.

Private equity boost for technology firm

PRIVATE equity backers are ploughing hundreds of thousands of pounds into a pipeline inspection company to support its global expansion plans. Read

Search the Influential 500

What is influence?

WHAT does it mean to be influential? It is something that we thought long and hard about, believe me, as we developed the idea for the Influential 500. Read

Northern Rock Archive

The Chemical Industry

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Bedtime business

Jim Mann of online accomodation firm bedsearcher on how the internet has transformed the hospitality sector.

Commercial Property News

New office units set to survive downturn

SELF-CONTAINED office units are being built on the edge of Ashington in Northumberland, and are expected to survive the downturn seen elsewhere in the property industry. Read

North-East Farming News

Two crucial weeks for quality of the harvest

THE next two weeks are key for the farming industry if it is to get the harvest in without any loss of quality, experts have said. Read

Business Interviews

Defender of jobs foresees new battle

THEY were very dark days for Northumberland. In November 1991 one of the smelting lines at Alcan in Lynemouth was shut and 500 people were laid off. Read