Invest North East England news
Newcastle headquartered Frank Recruitment Group has this week opened its latest US home in Irvine. The company has already created 20 jobs and plans to add another 35 sales roles in the next 12 months. After launching eight offices in the last 18 months, Frank Recruitment Group has opened the doors on its new office […]
Sumo Group plc has agreed to lease the top two floors of the Riga Building, extending to 16,500 sq ft, to house the local studios of its Sumo Digital and Atomhawk businesses. Gateshead Council announced the news today that it had secured its first new tenants for Riga. Sumo Digital will move in early 2020 […]
Battery manufacturer Hyperdrive Innovation expands in Sunderland and has doubled the size of its production facility by taking over the whole of its base at the Future Technology Centre building next to Turbine Business Park. The expansion makes it the largest dedicated battery manufacturing facility in the UK outside of original equipment manufacturers such as […]
As I sat down to write this blog, I asked myself, ‘when was the last time I went into a bank?’ The answer? Well it’s been a long time. The reason is I do nearly all of my banking online, like many of us. From paying bills, managing my accounts, even applying for a mortgage, […]
A new hub dedicated to research and development for the maritime sector has officially opened in at Port of Tyne, South Shields today A new partnership has been announced between a number of organisations including Port of Tyne, PD Ports, Nissan, Connected Places Catapult, Accenture, Royal HaskoningDHV and Ubisoft to create the UK’s first Maritime […]
Planning consent has been given for a new multi-million pound business park which could see the creation of more than 2,500 jobs in County Durham As a first phase, Durham County Council is funding the construction of seven speculative units (comprising 155,000 sq ft) at Jade Business Park, next to the A19 and Dalton Park, […]
Sage the market leader in cloud business management solutions, today announces that it will invest £40m in the North East of England in the next three years, creating an improved experience for colleagues, customers and partners, and strengthened technology and customer facing capabilities. The new workspace for colleagues in Newcastle will be part of a […]
An incubator facility designed to hothouse ideas that offer solutions to some of society’s most pressing challenges has opened in Sunderland. The Innovation Zone has been created by the North East Business and Innovation Centre (BIC) to bring together people who are developing new products, processes and applications that address real world problems such as […]