Newcastle Long Read · 10 min read
How Greggs took over Britain
From a delivery van in Northumberland mining villages to almost 2,800 shops, Greggs has spent more than 80 years learning how to be where its customers are.
Long reads
Long-form reporting and analysis on the businesses, places and forces shaping the North East.
Technology Long Read · 15 min read
North East AI Growth Zone: projects, funding and progress
Financial services Long Read · 20 min read
The major investment funds backing North East companies
Newcastle Long Read · 18 min read
The best coworking spaces in Newcastle
Long Read · 11 min read
The North East mayor and business: what devolution means for North East companies
Newcastle Long Read · 10 min read
What Newcastle can learn from Manchester's rise
Gateshead Long Read · 8 min read
How Vertu Motors built its second act around what happens after the car sale
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Sunderland Long Read · 8 min read
Why Hays Travel kept buying into the high street
From the back of a babywear shop in Seaham to Thomas Cook’s collapse, Hays Travel has kept growing by widening what a travel agency can be.
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Deep tech and science Long Read · 7 min read
The North East's role in the UK government's £7.8bn space plan
How the North East is already equipped to contribute to Britain's new space strategy.
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Newcastle Long Read · 8 min read
What GeoPura's £275m sale means for Newcastle
Ballard is buying an integrated hydrogen business but the regional return depends on how it develops the Newcastle operation.
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Newcastle Long Read · 9 min read
Newcastle is rebuilding its city centre on a scale it has not attempted in decades
More than 1,100 homes already in live schemes, another 1,100 planned and over 700,000 sq ft of offices either side of Central Station.
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Technology Long Read · 7 min read
The North East has AI infrastructure. The value has to be built locally.
Data-centre capital is arriving, but the bigger prize is companies, skills and productivity.
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County Durham Long Read · 9 min read
Can Durham Innovation District repeat the NETPark model?
The Durham Innovation District will replace County Hall with up to 400,000 sq ft of workspace.
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Northumberland Long Read · 8 min read
Cambois is becoming a major data-centre site in Britain’s AI infrastructure push
The former Britishvolt site is now a staged data-centre campus backed by Blackstone.
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Newcastle Long Read · 10 min read
The money behind North East football
What actually funds Newcastle, Sunderland and Middlesbrough football clubs.
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County Durham Long Read · 12 min read
NETPark is keeping the companies it grew
What two decades of public investment in Sedgefield has delivered and whether the model can keep scaling.
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Newcastle Long Read · 8 min read
Forth Yards, the current state of Newcastle's last major waterfront site
An overview of who owns the site, what's already been spent and what October's developer decision means for Newcastle's waterfront.
