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Funding is available for SMEs in the region – but tracking it down may sometimes be quite a challenge. Geoff Hodgson though has some advice to guide SMEs through the finance maze.
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Levels of state investment announced for future oil and gas production confirm its status as a sunrise industry sure to remain prominent in the UK economy, says George Rafferty.
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For 15 years many firms have been destroying relations with customers, says Kevin Robson. He suggests that in a wilderness of poor or indifferent treatment of customers, and over-focus on serviceability, Service-Ability will be the next big thing.
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Nowhere in the UK, it seems, will you find better service at a port or airport than in the North East. But the honour doesn’t come easily, as Brian Nicholls records.
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Andrew Mitchell answers BQ's questions on the effects of the £125m Finance for Business North East Fund on ambitious companies in the region.
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Globally successful entrepreneur Sara Davies from Crafters Companion reveals how she managed the growth of her now international business.
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PR expert Raman Sehgal on the shift in the way publicity-hungry businesses interact with the press and the value of good content in the battle for coverage.
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Richard Grafton believes his new interiors business is a step change from the companies he has been running for the past two decades. He tells Peter Baber why.
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Over lunch at Swinton Park, Barry Dodd, chairman of the York, North Yorkshire and East Riding Enterprise Partnership, tells BQ about the parallels between his organisation and past business successes.
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Gary Verity, chief executive of tourism agency Welcome to Yorkshire, takes a Porsche 911 for a spin and discovers an experience straight out of Hollywood.
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With a major review of the regional economy currently under way, BQ asks one of the influential business leaders behind it, Heidi Mottram, for a progress update.
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When members of the City crowd are in need of new threads, it is often to a North East hamlet they head, as BQ reports.
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It has come a long way, but has Holbeck – that bit of Leeds immediately south of the railway line and the River Aire – really regenerated itself fully? Peter Baber finds out.