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In an age of coalition Government, the ‘Big Society’ agenda and focus on the entrepreneurial spirit, collaboration is emerging as an integral theme across all areas of society and industry. With the global economy tightening as never before, collaboration between businesses is absolutely vital for growth as well as profitability. (more…)

A NEW joint venture between two North East firms is on target to see sales hit £1m in its first year after attracting interest from several national corporate giants.

Newcastle-based market research business Explain has joined forces with Teesside brand agency Better, to launch Better Communities. The Better Communities product is a bespoke private digital community backed up by specialist research software which allows companies with large customer bases to gain feedback and insight from their consumers.

The co-creation and engagement tool has already attracted interest from a number of blue chips from across Europe in several sectors including retail, manufacturing and utilities, and negotiations with a handful of multinational companies continue to progress. (more…)

When Explain and Better first sat round a table at Seaham Hall in March 2009, the brief was simple; find a way of harnessing the dynamic growing power of digital media with the customer insight provided by market research.

The two companies had been brought together through a long standing relationship between Steven Bell, a board director of The Entrepreneurs Forum and David Shiel, managing director of Explain, a relationship that stretched back over 25 years when they both worked in the supermarket industry. (more…)

Five Lamps’ aims to transform the lives of individuals and their families by helping them to find work, start their own business, improve their finances and improve the aspiration of young people.  All of their work is underpinned by their commitment to ‘Making People Matter’. Five Lamps are based at Thornaby in Teesside and have offices across the North East. (more…)

Entrepreneurs Forum members are to join forces to raise funds for a men’s cancer charities this month…but their appearance in doing so might not be to everyone’s liking!

Better Brand Agency’s Mark Easby (@easbynow) and Declan Metcalfe (@DeclanMetcalfe) are joining forces with Quay2 Media’s Christian Cerisola (@ChristianCerisola) for ‘Movember’, a special month-long awareness campaign which aims to raise much needed funds for The Prostate Cancer Charity and Everyman by encouraging all males to grow a moustache throughout November. (more…)

Working with Better Brand Agency on the development of our brand and website launch has been a fantastic experience and a great way to launch our new business, Lead &Transform. Lead & Transform is all about people-led innovation, enabled by IT, and our experience of working with Better has been a brilliant example of all that we stand for in our business. Right from the start, Mark, Declan and Sam tuned in perfectly to the ‘people’ aspects of our business, our core values, vision and aspirations. (more…)

The Executive Centre Newcastle in association with Business Link and Inform North are delighted to invite you to a FREE Entrepreneurship Inspiration day as part of the Global Entrepreneurship week.

Global Entrepreneurship Week began life as Enterprise Week in the UK back in 2004. When news of the phenomenal success of Enterprise Week in the UK spread the globe, lots of other countries got excited at the potential of running similar initiatives in their own countries. So in 2008, Enterprise UK and the Kauffman Foundation (the world’s largest entrepreneurship foundation based in the US) founded the very first Global Entrepreneurship Week. (more…)

Chapters Hotel & Restaurant is situated in the Market place in Stokesley, at the foot of the beautiful North Yorkshire Moors National Park. It is a favoured destination for many business travellers’ because of the hotel’s convenient location for the Tees Valley business community, and also perfectly situated for those who wish to spend a relaxing weekend among our beautiful countryside attractions. (more…)

Quay2 Media is a PR agency with a difference. Quay2 Media is a public relations, media relations and crisis communications agency based in North East England. Located on the North Shields Fish Quay, we are just a few miles outside Newcastle-Upon Tyne. Quay2 Media is an award winning PR and media relations consultancy, delivering successful, cost-effective results with honesty and integrity. (more…)

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