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BQ is pleased and proud to inform its readers, advertisers and many supporters and contributors, that it is now North East Magazine of the Year.

This accolade, conferred only 19 months after its first issue, endorses approvals we had already received from many within the North East business community that we serve, and which it has been our great pleasure to serve in turn in our relatively short life to date. BQ’s honour has been announced as one of the Cordner Annual Awards – the longstanding regional “Oscars” given in acknowledgement of highest standards achieved in North East journalism yearly.

We are particularly pleased because we feel it shows that, despite the very difficult times confronting print media – in this country and abroad – we are showing, and our customers are showing through their time and interest spared, that there will always be a place in the market for a publication relevant to its readers’ interests and priorities.
Our vision is simple: to produce a bright, optimistic and profitable periodical with both reference and entertainment qualities, telling and interpreting news and views of North East business simply, honestly and devoid of spin and churn.

Our editorial policy is simple too: we encourage the entrepreneurial spirit that has made this region great before and will do so again. We support regional goals. And we pay respect to businesses, organisations and individuals that have already set fine examples by making major contributions to the good of our region’s economy and its people over the years.

We try with all the tools we have – in words and lively, out-of-the rut photography and design – to bring this region’s great business and its allied communities closer, so improving the understanding of each other’s achievements, difficulties and opportunities.

We are soundly supported in all this by our large network of contacts, informants and every interviewee who co-operates with us, often at short notice.
Chris March, BQ’s managing director, had the foresight to trace a gap in the existing market: a need for a periodical of high print and content quality that readers could look forward to with each new issue, a publication proudly independent in its outlook. Thus, BQ was born.

We hope we achieve our objectives and help you to achieve yours. If at any time we don’t measure up, we feel our readers will respect us enough to tell us so, and why. A magazine is only as strong as its readership allows. So our thanks go to everyone giving us encouragement.
Since we are the best North East magazine, you must be the North East’s best in readership and support.

Thank you.

Brian Nicholls,
Editor.