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In-house recruitment specialist Talentheads has partnered with Ad Gefrin Visitor Experience and Distillery to provide recruitment services in the run-up to their opening in February 2023. Ad Gefrin is the brainchild of Alan and Eileen Ferguson whose family businesses have been operating across the county for nearly 100 years. The...
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Newcastle to host second FinTech North conference On 14 July, startups, unicorns and giants of financial services will congregate at the iconic Common Room of the Great North, in Newcastle’s old Mining and Mechanical Engineering Institute, for the city’s second FinTech North annual conference. The event will bring together a cumulative financial...
Employees from Local Housebuilder Take a Paws from Their Screens to Volunteer at Newcastle Animal Shelter
Employees from Barratt Developments North East donated their time at Newcastle Dog and Cat Shelter this week to help prepare the centre for its reopening. Five members of staff swapped their desk view for dogs and volunteered their services at the shelter’s rehoming centre in Benton. The team spent the...
Rehook founder Wayne Taylor, pictured second from right, with some of the Rehook team.
A clever invention created by Teesside University graduate Wayne Taylor has been honoured with a top business award from the Queen. Rehook, a cycling tool designed to reinstate a cycle chain without the mess, has been recognised in the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2022. The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are...
Region’s Largest Bus Company Donates £30,000 to the Local Charities
Depot teams at Go North East, the region’s largest bus company, have chosen a charity to support at each company location, following nominations from colleagues of causes that are very close to their hearts. To kick off the newly formed charity partnerships, £30,000 in donations has been shared across them...
North Tyneside Business Awards Winners
The best of North Tyneside’s businesses have been celebrated at the glittering North Tyneside Business Awards.  The annual awards, which are organised by the North Tyneside Business Forum, celebrate the huge contribution that businesses make to the local economy and how they make North Tyneside a great place to live,...
Local Housebuilder Granted Planning Approval For First Of Three New Developments In Newcastle
27 January 2022: Five star housebuilder, Barratt Developments North East has been granted planning approval for the first of three new housing developments in Newcastle. Responding to the growing demand for high quality new homes, Barratt’s major plans will see over 500 new houses built across the city, which will...
Theatre Company Chair Back for Encore Performance
The new Chair of an Amble based theatre company has had a baptism of fire thanks to a combination of COVID restrictions and the devastating effects of Storm Arwen. However, her wealth of experience in business and the arts is already having positive results and the company is looking forward...
Local Designer-Makers to Showcase Northumbrian Creativity
Autumn 2022 will see the opening of the new Ad Gefrin Visitor Experience and Whisky Distillery in Wooler, Northumberland, and the Rural Design Centre Innovation Project (RDCIP) have been working with them to help find local designer-makers to showcase Northumbrian creativity. The Ad Gefrin Design Challenge has been an opportunity...
Newcastle-based Company Appoints New Director as Ambitious Growth Plans Get Underway
Newcastle-based consultancy and training provider, Absolute Quality, has strengthened its leadership and management team with the appointment of Lora Wilson as director. The company, which specialises in helping businesses drive continual improvement, has enjoyed sustained growth for a number of years, despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and Lora’s...

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