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Welsh expertise transforms gateway to Games
26/7/2010 - Newport based Cintec is working against time to renovate the historic Mangi Bridge in the heart of Delhi to ensure it provides a fitting gateway to the Commonwealth Games. The nine-arched stone bridge, which connects S...

Business headache? Ring Swansea uni
26/1/2010 - Swansea University is ringing in the changes for businesses in 2010 A telephone hotline has been set up exclusively for businesses and organisations providing direct contact to Swansea University to help develop univer...

Marukyu takes the bait and comes to to Ammanford
26/11/2009 - Marukyu of Japan has made the decision to locate the UK and European arm of its business in Carmarthenshire. The firm - the biggest manufacturers of fishing baits in the world - will be based at a new prestigious sit...

Anglesey encourages businesses to apply for grants
26/10/2009 - Anglesey County Council is encouraging local businesses to apply for a new Welsh Assembly training grant to help them through the recession. The new ProAct scheme is designed to help businesses experiencing a temporary...

Flying start for Swansea firms
26/5/2009 - Swansea businesses are being offered the chance to showcase their products to thousands of visitors this summer when the Wales National Airshow flies into the city. The two-day event is taking place on July 11 and 12 a...

Teaching Wales to handle money in credit crunch
26/11/2008 - A goal of the Welsh Assembly Government in these days of economic turmoil is to teach people about money - at school, through further and higher education, in the workplace and in the community. This was the message t...

Wales is open for billions of business
26/9/2008 - Wales is transforming communities, attracting investment and developing new models of working together. Three billion pounds will be invested in the next five years to meet new standards. That was the message of Leight...

Inventor helps the medicine go down
26/3/2008 - Welsh inventor Robert Curtis has developed a device to help owners medicate their pets after spending hours unsuccessfully trying to persuade his German Shepherd to take her tablets. The result, which he has now paten...

Cardiff students go into business
26/3/2008 - A spark of an idea is all it took for three students from Cardiff School of Medicine to join the ranks of Wales's young aspiring entrepreneurs. DevelopMed, a not-for-profit company founded by final year students Robert...

Fifty new jobs at Powys hi-tech firm
26/2/2008 - Fifty new jhos are to come to Powys as part of a 1.5m pounds expansion plan at the head office of hi-tech engineering company Invertek Drives The company employs 60 people at its base near Welshpool and another 10 ove...

Boost for Neath PT small firms
26/2/2007 - Two thousand small businesses in Neath Port Talbot are to have a reduction in their rates bill. They are set to benefit from a new rate relief scheme being brought in from April. The Welsh Assembly is replacing the ...

Dr Who brings sweet success to Wales
26/10/2006 - A South Wales confectionery company is booming because of the Doctor Who phenomenon. Crumlin based Bon Bon Buddies' Licensing Manager Lisa Elward says, "The Bon Bon Buddies Doctor Who confectionery range is proving a...

Online mortgages available in Welsh language
26/1/2006 - Principality Building Society is launching a new online mortgage application facility completely through the medium of Welsh. Wales ' s largest building society is the first financial services company to offer mortg...

New marine radar system set to be world beater
26/10/2004 - A highly innovative pc based marine radar system and low motion buoy developed in West Wales is set to become a world beater.  The Iris radar system is capable of carrying a much clearer image - onshore and offshore - ...

Welsh broadband conference looks to the future
26/10/2004 - In less than a month, stakeholders in the Welsh telecoms sector will converge on Llancaiach Fawr Manor outside Caerphilly to discuss the future of broadband communications in Wales, in a conference organised by indepe...

Welsh success at Britain’s largest invention show
26/10/2004 - Welsh inventors scooped the awards at this year’s British Invention Show with Andrew Hubert von Staufer’s Skirider picking up one of the top prizes for his popular invention.  The Skirider, a type of snow scooter that ...

Call for entries to Technology Wales awards
26/10/2004 - Technology Wales 2005, the largest IT exhibition event in Wales, is inviting Welsh business entries to its prestigious technology awards. There are 11 categories in the TW05 Awards, each honouring businesses, organisation...

Welsh IT sector growing faster
26/10/2004 - New research undertaken by the Welsh Development Agency has shown that ten leading players within the Welsh software and IT services sector are growing at a rate 7.0 times higher than that techMARK listed companies, and h...

City award hat-trick for Welsh software firm
26/4/2004 - A leading Welsh IT company has won a prestigious national award – for the third year in a row.  Cardiff-based Peter Evans has picked up the ‘Superior Customer Service’ Award at the annual Securities Industry Awards, sp...

Study details new Wales housing development land
26/4/2004 - The Welsh Development Agency (Land Development) has today (Monday, 26th April 2004) published the latest Housing Land Availability Study for the County Borough of Conwy. The Study was carried out under the guidance con...

Land deal saves Welsh steel jobs
26/4/2004 - Spanish steelmaker Grupo Celsa has just completed the purchase for £3.5 million of the freehold of the Castle Works site in Cardiff Bay from the Welsh Development Agency (WDA). The company intends to construct a 40,00...

Welsh internet innovation for business
26/1/2004 - Swansea-based NetBop Technologies has launched its second major application, BopControl. This new web-based content management system allows clients to edit the content of their website at any time, regardless of the web...

Goodbye Bank of Wales
26/9/2002 - The Bank of Wales is no more. After 30 years, the bank’s owners, The Bank of Scotland, have announced that the name is being scrapped. The Bank of Wales headquarters in Cardiff and four branches, in Swansea, Newpo...

Bioscience has “huge potential for Welsh economy’
26/9/2002 - Bioscience is the key to the future - it will determine the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the cars we drive, as well as managing and preventing disease -and Wales has the potential to be a key player. The drive to...

Open day a 'magnet' for Welsh businesses
26/2/2002 - A special open day is proving a 'magnet' for businesses keen to find out how university expertise and facilities can help them. The Magnetics Technology Open Day takes place at the Cardiff University School of Engineer...

Assembly pushes for Welsh tax incentives
26/11/2001 - The Welsh Assembly Government has today unveiled its Action Plan to provide better support for Welsh businesses as part of " A Winning Wales", the draft National Economic Development Strategy, which is out for consultatio...

Welsh property deal with appeal
26/10/2001 - A prestigious Welsh manufacturing facility - one of the most environmentally advanced buildings in the UK – is to be sold by tender in a development deal that will enable a major expansion of the premises. This innovat...

200 jobs axed at Sony’s Bridgend plant
26/9/2001 - National Assembly First Minister, Rhodri Morgan, voiced disappointment at today’s announcement of 200 redundancies at Sony’s cathode ray tube plant in Bridgend. Commenting after the company’s announcement, Rhodri Morga...

Businesses give guarded welcome to Welsh rural recovery plan
26/7/2001 - Farmers, tourist operators and other rural businesses will continue to struggle to exist in the short-term despite the £65m rural recovery plan announced by the Assembly, said a leading Welsh agriculture representative to...

£65m Welsh rural recovery plan launched
26/7/2001 - A major £65m funding package to support measures to help rural Wales recover from the effects of foot and mouth disease was aonnounced on Thursday by National Assembly First Minister Rhodri Morgan and Rural Affairs Minist...

Wales and India sign IT agreement
26/6/2001 - The Welsh Development Agency has opened up major new business opportunities for Welsh companies with one of the world’s fastest growing centres of IT expertise. It follows the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding b...

Welsh company had the bottle to win major order
26/4/2001 - An eye-catching new sports bottle designed and developed with the support of the Welsh Development Agency has helped a leading Welsh bottled water company land a major new contract from Boots. Competition for the contr...

£2m backing from Finance Wales for small businesses
26/3/2001 - Two new loan deals by Finance Wales's "Wales Small Loan Fund" have taken the total amount of lending by the Fund to more than £2 million in less than 18 months. The Fund was launched in August 1999 to assist new or sma...

Welsh Development Agency chairman to stand down
26/3/2001 - Sir David Rowe-Beddoe will stand down as Chairman of the Welsh Development Agency when his current term comes to an end in the autumn. Sir David, who is the longest serving Chairman in the Agency's history, said today ...