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Serving the Teesside Business Community | 13
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Firms like px provide rich career
opportunities for women
The Tees Business team (left to right): Writer Jacky Stevely, photographer Chris Booth,
writer Lou Murray, co-editor Dave Allan, photographer Doug Moody, co-editor Martin
Walker, writer Michael McGeary, designer Sarah Carlton and printer Steve Allgood.
TEES BUSINESS PUBLISHERS SUPPORTING LOCAL JOBS
A
growing publishing company says
it plans to create future jobs, with a
number of new publications in the
pipeline.
Middlesbrough-based Resolution Media
and Publishing – publishers of Tees Business
– already supports more than 30 local jobs all
year round.
Resolution is owned by former
Middlesbrough FC colleagues Dave Allan and
Martin Walker, who currently both edit Tees
Business and sister publication Tees Life.
The firm uses Middlesbrough printers,
MV Print, to print eight publications a year,
totalling a whopping 3.4million pages of
positive Tees news and features – supporting
the firm’s 22 employees.
Resolution also uses local freelance
photographers Doug Moody and Chris Booth,
among others, and freelance writers Michael
McGeary, Jacky Stevely, Lou Murray, Julie
Martin, Harry Pearson, Adam Steel, Carrie
Cosgrove and Graham Courtney.
And Sarah Carlton, owner of design agency
KINSHIP, is employed to design all Resolution
publications.
Furthermore, Resolution uses neighbouring
digital agency Eighty8 Design to create and
maintain their websites.
Now the young but ambitious company
says it plans to create full-time posts to
support future growth plans.
Co-director Walker said: “Our business
model of the quality free publication funded
by advertising has been a great success for
us, and we plan to roll the same model out to
other areas.
“We have some exciting plans for new
business publications in other parts of the
North-East as well as another publication for
the Tees region.
“To support these plans we’re aiming to
take on new staff over the next 12 months
which will enable us to grow, so it’s certainly
exciting times for us.”
Keep up-to-date with all Tees business
news at teesbusiness.co.uk – the Tees
region’s only website dedicated to local
business news.
Celebrating 10 years of BME achievement
O
rganisers of the Tees Valley BME
Achievement Awards are to host an
equality and diversity event to explore
ways to improve race equality and identify
the challenges we face as employers, service
providers and communities.
As part of celebrations marking 10 years
of achievement for those of a black, minority
and ethnic background, the event will be
followed by a BME Community Employment
Fair, providing exhibitors with an opportunity
to reach out to a more diverse and
representative workforce.
Yasmin Khan, one of the event organisers,
said: “The North-East is a diverse region, and
we’re committed to promoting and ensuring
equality and valuing that diversity can be
achieved. We want to reflect the diversity of
the communities we serve.
“The Tees Valley BME Achievement
Awards have highlighted the strengths of
embracing diversity, and to this effect we
are providing a platform for public, private
and third sector partners to identify specific
actions for a modern and diverse workforce.”
On October 10, the Tees Valley will
Yasmin Khan – one of the organisers
of the Tees Valley BME awards.
come together to explore ways to
promote diversity, equality and inclusion
within organisations and, in turn, within
communities.
The half-day event aims to bring race
equality to the forefront for key stakeholders
across the Tees Valley.
The Diversity Conference takes place in
Middlesbrough Town Hall 9.30am-1pm on
Wednesday October 10. The Employment
Fair takes place 1pm-4pm. The BME
Achievement Awards take place from
6.30pm on October 12. To book your place
on any or all of the events, please visit
www.bmeawards.co.uk.
O
ur industry is changing and today it offers
a huge range of exciting and rewarding
opportunities for both men and women.
The Tees Businesswomen Awards provide
a great opportunity for px Group to be able
to demonstrate to a wider audience that we
support the employment and development of
talented women in the high hazard industries
we are involved in.
As a company we employ many talented
women in a variety of roles and levels in
technical, engineering and business support
activities.
The event provides an opportunity to
recognise the contribution that women are
making to business and the economy, and in
particular by those working in the Tees Valley.
Hopefully it will also demonstrate the rich
and varied roles available within industries
like ours these days and show that there are
many careers worthy of serious consideration
by further and higher education students.
There’s a need to make sure that this
message is fed down into schools, so young
people can see where the careers are in lots
of businesses and give them something to
aspire towards.
There is work being done but, from the
outside looking in, people probably don’t
see how many women are involved in our
industries, or how doing STEM subjects can
be turned into worthwhile opportunities for
them
Here at px Group we now have two
women on the company’s executive board
– myself and our finance director Lee Smail
– and we have many more talented women
rising through the organisation’s ranks.
Our philosophy is to support, encourage,
train and promote people based on their
ability, regardless of gender, which gives
women real opportunities to forge careers
that they may never have thought available in
the past.
We are delighted to be a sponsor of
awards, which demonstrate that many
women are already emerging as the region’s
high achievers.
Katie Woods-Ruddick
Head of HR, px Group
Middlesbrough-based digital marketing
agency Mabo Media was named best small
pay-per-click agency in the European Search
Awards earlier this year. The firm launched
from the home of its owner Lee Mableson
just five years ago but now employs 25 staff.
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