AMERICAN manufacturing giant Caterpillar is poised to double production at its County Durham plant and take on 100 staff after recovering from the impact of the economic slowdown.Read
NORTHERN Rock plc is to cut the mortgage application fee it charges customers looking to buy a property by 60% as the bank continues its credit crunch comeback.Read
AFTER a quarter century spent building the region’s biggest advertising and marketing agency, the founders of Robson Brown yesterday sold it to a Californian company which plans to make it the centre of a nationwide business.Read
A CANADIAN pension fund is rumoured to be preparing a £1.7bn bid to buy Northumbrian Water in a deal which is likely to be welcomed by its shareholders.Read
TRADITIONAL North East tea brand Ringtons is to take its unique offering to the popular retirement towns of the South coast after a recession-busting year which saw sales and profits soar.Read
PLANS to create thousands of jobs in the region by placing it at the forefront of technology which will transform the electronics world have received a huge funding boost.Read
AT an age when most business tycoons plan to cash in on a lifetime of hard work and prepare to retire in luxury, Brian Burnie’s thoughts are far from feathering his own nest.Read
THE Prime Minister last night threw his weight behind a last ditch attempt to stop the North East’s biggest steel plant from shutting with the loss of nearly 2,000 jobs.Read
GOVERNMENT plans for the next generation of nuclear power stations were boosted yesterday after French group EDF unveiled a £12.5bn deal to buy British Energy and build four new reactors in the UK.Read
GREENE King has revealed further evidence of the current pressure on the brewing and pub industry after seeing its sales fall nearly 3% in May and June.Read
Iain Laing has been business editor for four years. He started his ncjMedia career as a Durham district reporter in 2000. He has served as a reporter at the Evening News in Edinburgh and the Northern Echo in Darlington.
