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FOREWORD by
Bob Cuffe, non-executive director,
Resolution Media & Publishing
HIGHLIGHTS IN
THIS ISSUE OF
TEES BUSINESS:
14
BEN HOUCHEN
The comeback is always
stronger than the setback
18
TEES TECH AWARDS
Appamondo, Adeo and
Nicander. Not Man City’s new
signings but just three of those
shortlisted for an award
22
COVER FEATURE
PD Ports boss Frans Calje is
turning the tide with people
power
26
TOP OF THE TEES
For the fifth year running,
we reveal the region’s Most
Inspiring Business Leaders
46
TEES UP!
We share a virtual cuppa and
talk business with UKSE’s
Sarah Thorpe
50
SAFE HANDS
How Active is keeping clients
happy during the pandemic
Welcome back to Tees Business – and thanks all of
you who have supported this edition. Take a bow!
I’d also like to pay tribute to Dave and Martin
– the brains behind Tees Business - who’ve
worked their socks off over recent weeks.
I’ve been hugely impressed by their weekly
Talking Business and Business Leaders Q&As
on social media. They have continued to
support and promote Teesside’s business
community through the most challenging of
times.
Through my working life, the economic
crises have often been Teesside-only - from
Smith’s Dock, ICI and British Steel through to
SSI.
And we’ve always bounced back - with
scars but reinvented.
This is global. I’m confident that Teesside
can bounce back faster, stronger and more
confidently than anywhere else.
We have great, inspiring leaders - as shown
in the fantastic Most Inspiring list that features
in this issue of Tees Business, containing
extraordinary homegrown talent and brilliant
adopted Teessiders such as Frans Calje and
Mike Racz, who both feature in this year’s top
10.
We also have world class businesses
- we’re rightly proud of our engineering,
manufacturing and chemical expertise and
long may they see Teesside as their natural
home. In addition, we have the most exciting
tech cluster containing our brightest minds
- and this issue reveals the shortlists for the
long-awaited inaugural Tees Tech Awards.
This Tees Business event - in August at
our airport - will be, I’m sure, the first actual
and virtual awards ceremony anywhere since
March - and again shows that Teesside is
back and open for business.
Let’s keep supporting each other, let’s
keep talking about our successes - and keep
telling Dave, Martin and their sales manager
Chris Garbutt obviously. Enjoy the magazine!
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Executive editors: Martin Walker and Dave Allan. Editing assistance: Michael McGeary.
Designed by: KINSHIP, [email protected]
Our writers: Joanne Barrett, Peter Barron, Julie Burniston, Michael McGeary,
Harry Pearson, Adam Steel, Colin Young.
Our photographers: Graeme Rowatt (including front cover), Chris Booth,
Doug Moody, Tom Banks.
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