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...His company, Tyne & Wear LGV, is a training centre for a programme jointly run by recruitment company Manpower Group and Specialised Training Services, a company that helps fund driver training....
...James Hardie, a building products manufacturer, is the second-worst performer in the S&P/ASX 200, down 5.4 per cent....
...Australian thermal coal prices — the benchmark for the giant Asian market — have surrendered recent gains as traders fret over the outcome of crucial contract talks with Japanese utility companies....
...“The company appears to have taken the decision to help balance the market, hoping perhaps that others may follow suit,” said Investec Securities....
...Founded in 1894, J Barbour and Sons is renowned for its waxed cotton jackets that are still manufactured at the company’s headquarters in Tyne and Wear, northeast England....
...“It will mean more road miles and less sea miles,” warns Jens Holger Nielsen, chief executive of Rotterdam-based Samskip, a shipping company....
...The front of one of the 6m-high machines in subsea equipment maker SMD’s works near Newcastle upon Tyne has a huge roller-like device, covered in points like a medieval cudgel....
...“The reality, however, is that Tyne and Wear has one of the best bus networks in the country.”...
...Chris graduated from University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 2002 with a BA in Geography. He married Aimi Baldwin in 2009, a few months after their trek up to the roof of Africa....
...(These figures don’t include company of the moment Xiaomi, which is fast catching up on the biggest sellers). 4) This is reflected in the average revenue per user, which is low in China compared to many...
...But several different companies have varying visions of how the technology will develop....
...“At the time, a lot of marketing was still a zero sum game in which companies felt they had to win at the expense of the consumer.”...
...Richard Hardie, who chairs UBS’s London operation, says the Swiss bank’s recruitment website used to specify that it was looking for language skills....
...Nails Inc, a London-based company established in 1999, is among the more colourful winners: it set out to establish a chain of branded nail bar concessions in leading department stores with high footfall...
...James Hardie Industries , an Australian supplier of building materials that depends on the US for more than half of its sales, rose 0.4 per cent to A$7.24....
...With more than a fifth of S&P 500 companies having announced their first quarter figures, more than 80 per cent are considered to have beaten expectations....
...From the back room of a printing company near the River Tyne to a FTSE 100 company valued at £3.5bn ($5.4bn) with 6.3m customers globally and operations in 24 countries worldwide, Sage, founded in Newcastle...
...Sony , Panasonic and other Japanese technology companies gained as shares of Apple dropped in New York following Steve Jobs’s resignation as the US company’s chief executive....
...The company was very close to the consumer.”...
...Few of the drivers passing the huge workshops near the Tyne Bridge know how the UK’s last large maker of cast rolls has survived and prospered....
...Sydney’s S&P/ASX 200 index rose 2.1 per cent to 4,694.22, with James Hardie Industries, the building materials company that counts the US as its leading market, rising 15.9 per cent to A$6.20 on robust home...
...Three years on, the over-leveraged Newcastle-upon-Tyne-based company is mobilising the plain-speaking qualities of England’s north-east to rebuild its image....
...Wellstream has bases by the Tyne in Newcastle, its HQ, and at Niteroi in Brazil. Given the sector’s dynamic character, change is constant but full of potential....
...It is also a fillip to the growth ambitions of east coast ports and to companies like Shepherd Offshore on the Tyne, Teesside Cast Products on the Tees and Able UK on the Humber, all of whom have big industrial...
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