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Elliot Brook and Dan Ziglam are building a North East reputation for progressive furniture and lighting design, taking other young creators with them at the same time.
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Paul Ferris talks BQ through his unlikely career path from beautiful game to books, bar and boardroom.
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Neither family nor bank manager could stifle Steve Cochrane’s ambition to put an industrial borough on the world’s fashion map, as Brian Nicholls reports.
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In a sector populated by age-old firms with long histories, one young shipping company has fast emerged as a major challenger to the established fleet.
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If you think switching off the lights and heating at every opportunity is the only way to cut those soaring fuel and energy bills, you haven’t met Utilitywise’s Geoff Thompson.
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Yorkshire dales pub owner Charles Cody thinks good kitchens should work like air traffic control towers. His success suggests he may have a point, writes Peter Baber.
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After taking more than a decade off to raise a family, Viv Parry found a new passion in turning around a failed Leeds bakery as Peter Baber discovers.
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Oil industry legend Algy Cluff is back scouring for assets in the North Sea after making his mark in the Buchan Field in the 1970s. Here tells BQ why.
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Andrew Scaife’s background is in financial but he also has the chemistry to ensure an increasingly big portion of the medical industry will develop in the North East.