T E E S BU SIN ESS C ELEBRATES FIVE
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HIGH FIVE!
Tees Business has been featuring the news, the views, the movers and the
shakers in the world of business in the Tees Valley since Andy Preston appeared
on the front cover of the very first edition in 2015. To celebrate our fifth
anniversary, here’s a look back at the highlights of our first 20 editions.
ISS U E 1 , S P RI NG 20 1 5
The first ever Tees Business cover
was graced by businessman and now
Middlesbrough mayor Andy Preston who
told us more about his mission to turn
Middlesbrough into the UK’s tech town.
We also featured family-run engineering
company Tees Components which
celebrated another increase in turnover and
more investment in equipment at its North
Skelton site.
Middlesbrough College also featured as its
£12m STEM centre of engineering excellence
took shape.
ISS U E 2, S U MME R 20 1 5
NEPIC chairman Paul Booth featured on the
cover and in an interview told us his vision
for Tees industry.
Stokesley firm Applied Integration made
waves by developing systems for the Royal
Navy’s nuclear attack submarines.
And Middlesbrough’s designer department
store Psyche launched a new ecommerce
site to take the store to a whole new level.
ISS U E 3, AU T U MN 20 1 5
Issue 3 saw new NECC president Mike
Matthews share his views with Tees
Business.
Middlesbrough's new Boho Five building
was officially launched by a cross-party
team of politicians – and we were given
an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of
the restoration work on Acklam Hall,
Middlesbrough’s only Grade I listed building.
ISS U E 4 , W I NT E R 20 1 5
Teesside author Harry Pearson began his
regular column for Tees Business with a
look at how football brought a steelworks
together.
Artist Mackenzie Thorpe gave us his views
on our steely character and in Tees Up, The
Halo Project’s Yasmin Khan told us more
about her incredibly important work, her
greatest achievement and why she enjoys a
game or two of basketball.
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I SSUE 5 , SP R I N G 2 01 6
The former Mrs Bannatyne, Joanne
McCue, was our cover star, with a feature
about leading a fitness revolution.
We carried a special feature on
Teesside’s creative economy and it was a
big year for Stockton workwear supplier
MI Supplies with a record turnover and
plans for more investment.
I SSUE 6 , SUM M E R 2 01 6
We talked food with one the UK’s leading
restaurateurs Eugene McCoy, of The
Crathorne Arms.
And we followed it up with a special
feature on Teesside’s 20 best eateries as
recommended by our readers.
It was Tees Up for Middlesbrough
College principal Zoe Lewis who told us
what she wanted to be when she was a
child – a PE and music teacher.
I SSUE 7 , A UTUM N 2 01 6
Born in Pakistan but made in
Middlesbrough, we told the story of
MSV’s Shab Mehdi.
Midas’s Martin Gilbey recalled the
time he tried to row the Atlantic and
we brought you the plans for unique
Middlesbrough eatery The Fork in the
Road.
I SSUE 8, WI N TE R 2 01 6
Our cover feature took us to the river
where PD Ports CEO David Robinson
gave Tees Business an exclusive guided
tour of Teesside’s gateway to the world.
It was cracking good news from
SABIC too, with a focus on that instantly
recognisable piece of Teesside’s industrial
skyline, the Olefins Cracker.
I SSUE 9 , SP R I N G 2 01 7
Helen Gill, of Chadwicks Inn, Maltby, told
us why the best business decision she
ever made was becoming her own boss.
SABIC’s John Bruijnooge featured on
our cover and we told how Hartlepool
company Utility Alliance was fast
becoming a shining light in the town.