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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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Mayor pledges support for manufacturers

Chirton6 M Mayor pledges support for manufacturersNorth Tyneside elected Mayor Linda Arkley pledged council support for manufacturers after visiting visited one of the borough’s business success stories.

Mrs Arkley joined James Ramsbotham, Chief Executive of the North East Chamber of Commerce, on a visit to Chirton Engineering Limited, at its North Shields base on the West Chirton Industrial Estate.

They met owner Paul Stewart, who set

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Business Network backs enterprise

South Durham Business Network is celebrating business success across their area with an awards ceremony at a special event in December.

Businesses throughout South Durham are invited to enter or make nominations for an award in the following categories:

Best business start-up
Best home business
Best retail business
Best service business
Best employee
Engineering & manufacturing award Innovation award
Outstanding contribution to the South Durham area

Application forms for awards can be obtained by emailing info@sdbn.org.uk.

The ceremony will double with a Christmas Dinner to be held

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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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Grant aid wrapped up for packaging firm

A North East food packaging firm is safeguarding a host of jobs by updating facilities at its Wearside plant.

One North East has offered Interflex Ltd a Grant for Business Investment of £90,000 as part of a project to upgrade the company’s bread bag making line.

The project will ensure the company’s production line becomes more efficient safeguarding the jobs of 20 workers at Interflex’s plant at Sunderland Enterprise Park, which employs 110

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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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