Family-owned Tea Times Trading has become the latest British company to trade road haulage for a more sustainable method of logistics and ship its tea containers straight into South Shields. In doing so over 25,000 road miles, which creates 35,000kg of CO2, have been removed. As a company that prides itself on being innovative and …
SMEs in the North East are being urged to sign up to a new 12-week management course, providing critical skills and networks to help them innovate, grow and thrive beyond Covid-19. Help to Grow: Management is a practical training programme for senior leaders in small and medium-sized businesses. Rolled out nationally by the UK’s leading …
Dogger Bank Wind Farm will place South Tyneside and the North East at the centre of the UK’s offshore renewables industry. Tom Nightingale, North East Stakeholder Manager at Equinor is to share his experiences of working as part of the team behind the world’s biggest offshore wind farm in the latest in a series …
The North East’s longest-standing business investor is looking to further increase the number of regional firms with which it works after being confirmed as an accredited provider for the government’s new Recovery Loan Scheme (RLS). NEL Fund Managers has been accredited under RLS by the British Business Bank to provide loans of between £25,001 and …
Port of Tyne welcomed the Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP, Minister of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy today. The Minister took a tour around the Port’s estate to view several sites earmarked for green energy development and discuss progress on the Port’s award-winning clean energy roadmap, part of its ambitious ‘Tyne 2050’ strategy. …
South Tyneside-based Metec UK has won a series of offshore renewables contracts worth over £6.5 million to supply the Dogger Bank Wind Farm phases A and B, and a second offshore substation in France amongst others. Metec UK manufactures sacrificial anodes for the long-term protection of steel jackets and foundations against corrosion used in the …
South Tyneside entrepreneur to share his Dragon’s Den Experience. In our next Business Talk, Ian Farrar finds out what happened when Gary Giles pitched his revolutionary building system business to the Dragons on the hit TV show. This interactive Q&A session was live streamed from One Trinity Green’s Content Suite at 10am on Friday 16th …
Business & Intellectual Property Centre North East (BIPC) is delighted to announce that The Word Library located in South Shields is the third ‘BIPC Local’ to officially open its doors from Monday 12 July. This new Centre will provide local businesses and anyone looking to set-up their own business in and around South Tyneside with free …
Port of Tyne is planning for the future with the launch of a new graduate programme, welcoming seven graduates across the organisation. The launch of the graduate programme is an important step in the Port of Tyne’s aim to be ‘fit for the future by the end of 2021’ by ensuring its skill set is current …
Students from South Tyneside can apply for a new scholarship fund to prepare them for working life in a net zero world. Dogger Bank Wind Farm recognises the education of young people has been impacted by the pandemic and is committed to supporting the green recovery by helping the next generation to gain the jobs …
A Great British Entrepreneur of the Year finalist is to share his experiences of pitching to the Dragons in the next Invest South Tyneside’s next live-stream Business Talk. Founder Gary Giles moved his business OGEL into One Trinity Green, South Shields, in December 2020 in a bid to grow his revolutionary building system business, just …
Eight companies based in South Tyneside are included in the annual Top 200 list of the region’s largest companies by turnover. The list is compiled by the Journal in conjunction with accountancy firm PwC. Despite all the challenges of the last year, the Top 200 list shows that the North East business community remains robust …
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