WALES BUSINESS NEWS
With daily business news and updates from across Wales, we give you the latest views, insights, opinion and trends. Business news from Wales covers North Wales and Anglesey, through to the Welsh Borders, Cardiff, Swansea and Pembrokeshire.
COLEG CAMBRIA launched new complementary therapy programmes to help meet a surge in demand for highly trained health and beauty professionals. Ahead of the opening of a £14m health and wellbeing complex next year, the college’s Yale site in Wrexham unveiled Level 3 and Level 4 Diplomas in Reflexology and
COLEG CAMBRIA University Centre received a glowing report from the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA). A review by the QAA expressed confidence that ‘academic standards are reliable, meet UK requirements, and are reasonably comparable with standards set and achieved in other providers in the UK’. The review team –
BUSINESSES are benefiting from the expansion of an acclaimed independent pet retailer. PetPlace has enjoyed a significant period of growth, revamping its Abergele store to include a cinema and play park, opening a new headquarters in Kinmel Bay and recently unveiling a revamped building in Llangefni. The 25,000 sq ft
YSGOL St Gerard is beginning an exciting new era. The pioneering independent day school – which again secured the highest GCSE and A Levels results in North Wales during the summer – will undergo a period of significant development over the coming months. Attracting pupils from all over the region
A CONSTRUCTION boss turned storyteller is building a career in ‘lyrical marketing’ after turning to poetry in lockdown. Originally from Crewe, Gareth Williams launched Rhymeology in the pandemic and has already written for a host of private and public sector clients, including the NHS, the BBC, Avanti West Coast, Cheshire
CONTINUED sustainable growth has led to job opportunities at an internationally acclaimed organic farm estate. The 15,000 acre Rhug Estate, near Corwen in Denbighshire, has enjoyed one of its busiest years, with redevelopment at its popular café and a series of ground-breaking projects and partnerships on the horizon, at home
A LEADING independent school is onboard with an epic climate change research expedition. Ysgol St Gerard in Bangor has shown its support for Ingrid Lewis as she joins a team taking on up to 4,000 nautical miles as part of the Ocean Warrior data gathering project in the Arctic Circle
ONE of the country’s leading meat producers is using solar power to produce its award-winning sausages. And the move to renewable energy is helping to bring down spiralling electricity prices at Edwards, the Welsh Butcher, which hit the news last autumn when its bills soared from £2,500 to £15,000 a week. The company
A CUTTING-EDGE cheese factory that runs entirely on renewable energy is set to go even greener thanks to an electrifying new partnership. Mona Dairy is a headline sponsor of this week’s Anglesey Show and plans to unveil the UK’s first BEV (Battery Electric Vehicle) tractor and trailer for milk haulage
Hall Brothers Distribution Ltd has gone all in with its new pallet network membership. A family-run logistics company in Swansea is gearing up for significant growth after joining the Pallet-Track network. Hall Brothers Distribution, which also operates out of Goodwick, Pembrokeshire, is forecasting a significant increase in pallet volumes as
A media company has shown further signs of growth across Wales. Route Media – part of Dragon Group – has expanded its footprint with new partnerships including a West Wales bus network, which serves passengers in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire. The contract will see 10 vehicles installed with streetliner and rear
A SUPERMARKET giant is providing job opportunities for students with learning difficulties and/or disabilities. Students from Coleg Cambria Northop will begin full-time roles at Asda Queensferry from October. The Deeside store will be the first in the company to join the internship scheme, which is driven by DFN Project Search. Fewer
