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A Billingham-based business that Peter
Stephenson set up from home in 1966 has helped
make him the richest Teessider, according to The
Times’ Rich List 2018. Demolition and marine
decommissioning business Able UK is currently
working on the decommissioning of Shell’s 130m
tall Brent Delta platform in Seaton Carew.
#TalkingUpTeesside
COLLEGE TO LAUNCH
DIGITAL ACADEMY
Hartlepool-based Emmerson Marketing
director Matt Emmerson is paying tribute to
Voice of the Boro Alastair Brownlee.
Marketing agency pays
tribute to Ali Brownlee
A
Tees marketing agency is paying
tribute to Voice of the Boro Alastair
Brownlee as it produces the official
running shirt and commemorative medal for
a popular Middlesbrough fun run for a sixth
successive year.
The Ali Brownlee Riverside Run’s
commemorative T-shirt and medal has been
designed and produced by Hartlepool-based
marketing and branding agency, Emmerson
Marketing.
Named in memory of former Boro
commentator Alastair Brownlee, the 5k
run takes in a route from Middlesbrough
Football Club’s Riverside Stadium,
Middlesbrough College, the former
home of the town’s founding fathers
Henry Bolckow and John Vaughn, the
iconic Transporter Bridge and back to the
Riverside for a lap around the hallowed turf
to the finish line.
Organised by Everyone Active,
Middlesbrough Council’s flagship sports
event attracts around 3,000 runners of all
shapes, sizes, ages and fitness levels.
Emmerson Marketing’s clients include
Cleveland Centre, Middlesbrough FC,
Hodgson’s Fish, Extol Multi-Academy Trust,
Amacus Innovative Training and charities
MFC Foundation, Zoe’s Place Baby Hospice
and Daisy Chain.
£1M INVESTMENT AT
HARTLEPOOL SITE
Hartlepool-based expanded metal
mesh pioneer, the Expanded Metal
Company, has announced that it is
to benefit from major investment
totalling up to £1m over 2018.
The investment programme will
include the upgrading of buildings
on the company’s 25,000 sq m site
in Hartlepool, refurbishing specialist
manufacturing equipment, acquiring
new machinery and replacing existing
lighting with more energy-efficient
LED lighting systems. The work is
expected to be completed by the end
of the year.
Seymour named Hartlepool Business of the Year
Seymour Civil Engineering kicked
off its 40th anniversary celebrations
in style after stealing the night at
this year’s Hartlepool Business
Awards.
The team, who attended the
glittering awards ceremony at the
Hartlepool Borough Hall, celebrated
a double award win, picking up
the Investment in Training award,
closely followed by the diamond of
the night, being named the Overall
Business of the Year.
Hartlepool Sixth Form College is to
launch a Digital Academy ready for
September 2018.
The new academy will teach young
people a range of digital skills to support
economic growth in this sector, in line
with the Tees Valley key economic
priorities.
“We are delighted to be launching
a new Digital Academy for the young
people of Hartlepool and beyond, to
support in developing digital talent for
the future,” said the college’s head Mark
Hughes (pictured).
Aspiring chartered
surveyors on
career path
Two aspiring quantity surveyors are on the
road to their chosen career thanks to a
unique apprenticeship scheme developed
by an expanding Hartlepool practice.
Ryan Dodds, aged 23, from Darlington,
and 27-year-old Josh Brown, from
Middlesbrough, are now members
of the fast-growing team at chartered
surveyors Solomons Europe, based at UK
Steel Enterprise’s Innovation Centre on
the Queens Meadow Business Park in
Hartlepool.
They are the first two North-East
candidates to win places on the
company’s Accelerated Quantity
Surveying Pathway (AQSP).