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Business opportunities in India

EVSs Southport pier tram S Business opportunities in IndiaTime is running out for North East firms wanting to learn first-hand about the business opportunities available in India.

And they are being urged to take a leaf out of Electric Vehicle Systems from Washington if they want to break into the Indian marketplace.

EVS has been operating in India for over 25 years, but keen to ensure it was

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The North East’s biggest careers event, North East Skills, takes place at the Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle next week (Sept 21 and 22).

The event, supported by Newcastle College, aims to give young people aged from 14 to 19 a hands-on chance to learn new skills and find out about genuine jobs and careers.
Thousands of students, teachers and families are expected at North East Skills where Newcastle College will be featuring interactive activities including, a chance to

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Tees art students are the business

Hub Two artwork 1 M Tees art students are the businessWork by six Teesside art students is to take pride of place on the walls of UK Steel Enterprise’s new £4.7m extension to its flagship business centre in Hartlepool.

Thirteen pieces of art, chosen from hundreds completed by talented students on the Foundation Diploma Course at Cleveland College of Art and Design, have been bought

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Comunications offer new career prospects

1239266862 WiqzA S Comunications offer new career prospects An expanding Teesside-based training company is aiming to increase the number of young women training for a career in telecommunications, one of the UK’s fastest growing industries.

CableCom Training Ltd recently invested £2.2m in a purpose-built training and conference centre in Stockton and the new premises are the venue for the

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Guess who’s coming to dinner....

1155773189 UXAPK S Guess who’s coming to dinner....An invitation has gone out to the region’s bon vivants from a new business venture intent on becoming the height of good taste.

The Opus Dining Club, with ambitions to establish a regional network for people who enjoy good food, is the brainchild of former NHS worker Lesley Craggs.

She has been joined by her partner

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Brothers beat recession to join engineering elite

1083949368 yv5cG S Brothers beat recession to join engineering eliteTwo brothers are proving that a recession is no bar to starting and building a successful engineering business.

Alan and Steven McGill decided to use their decades of experience in tool-making, machined component manufacturing and engineering sales to set up Elite Precision Engineering Ltd in Consett in April 2009.

The company is

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Civil Engineering company is looking ACE

1007478210 dorPC S Civil Engineering company is looking ACEA Derwentside-based civil and environmental engineering company is on target to more than double last year’s turnover to nearly £3m.

Absolute Civil Engineering (ACE), based in the Consett Innovation Centre, was set up less than two years ago by 44-year-old Mark Short, who decided to use his engineering expertise and years of

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Work begins on £48m University development

996579814 9NJWV S Work begins on £48m University developmentA landmark £48million development at Durham University will bring together activities which are currently dispersed across the City into purpose-built facilities.

Contracts have been exchanged between the University and its appointed construction partner, Laing O’Rourke.

The new development, which is positioned at the edge of the University’s Science Site along Stockton Road, in

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New jobs for Durham manufacturing plant

956973547 e7MXf S New jobs for Durham manufacturing plantManufacturing giant ThyssenKrupp Tallent has revealed plans to create 70 new jobs at its County Durham plant with the help of North East recruitment firm TEMP-TEAM.

The German-owned multinational is looking to recruit machine operators, forklift truck drivers and welders over the next two months at its Newton Aycliffe factory, which

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Investment Secures 6,673 Jobs For North East

573656621 3fRjA S Investment Secures 6,673 Jobs For North EastOverseas investment created or safeguarded 6,673 jobs in the North East over the last year.

The inward investment figures were announced at the UK Trade & Investment Business Summit attended by over 100 of the UK’s leading investors.

Nationally, 94,346 jobs have been created or safeguarded as a result of direct

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