Author: Rhys Gregory

The Deputy Minister for Arts and Sport, Dawn Bowden visited Ratio:Production in Aberbargoed to see how the Creative Wales Music Capital Fund has helped to grow the business and their services to the music and events industry. Creative Wales, through the Music Capital Fund awarded more than of £524k to 58 music venues across Wales. The fund has assisted small and medium sized music businesses to improve and increase their commercial outlook and sustainability and contribute to the development and growth of the music industry in Wales. Ratio:Production received funding through the Music Capital Fund to develop a purpose-built recording…

Exciting developments are taking place across Rhyl town centre as projects, backed by the Welsh Government’s Transforming Towns fund and delivered in partnership with Denbighshire Council, take shape. Transforming Towns is supporting work to the value of nearly £25m within Rhyl town centre, improving and adapting underutilised commercial and residential property. Minister for North Wales Lesley Griffiths visited some of the projects in the town centre including the site of the Queen’s Market where the old derelict building has been demolished and work is set to begin on a new facility. This will include a new indoor market hall to…

UK timber importer Premier Forest Products is celebrating the end of a successful financial year with several key appointments and promotions. Premier’s like-for-like turnover has grown by 35 percent to £120M in the last 12 months and the strategic new appointments will be integral for helping the company to keep pace with its continued success and rapid expansion. Terry Edgell, Co-Founder and CEO said: “We are in a good position and preparing for growth despite challenging market conditions. The new appointments will enable us to become more focused in some areas of our expertise, enabling us to better support our…

Small businesses are vulnerable to many risks on a daily basis. Effective risk management is essential to ensure the long-term viability and sustainability of a business venture. More often than not, this responsibility falls on the shoulders of the entrepreneur or owner and this can be an added time pressure. However, it’s absolutely vital that risk management, largely in the form of contingency planning, is an important consideration when you start a business and even more so as it develops. In this article, we’ll explore what contingency planning is and why it’s so important for your small business. What is…

Let’s start with the basics! What is share price? Also known as a “stock price,” it is the cost of purchasing one share of a corporation. A share’s fee is not fixed and varies as per market conditions. It will most likely rise if the company is regarded as doing well and fall if it fails to meet expectations. How to Examine Stock Prices To precisely investigate share prices, you need to apply both fundamental and technical analysis.  Fundamental analysis focuses on determining if a stock is over or undervalued. It accomplishes this by examining each company’s perceived ability to…

Inderjeet Kaur, 29, admitted to having concluded approximately 150 theory and practical driving tests on behalf of candidates between 2018 and 2020. Kaur committed the offences throughout England and Wales including Swansea, Carmarthen, Birmingham and around London. Suspicion grew by staff at the test centres that Kaur was impersonating genuine candidates while taking the test. Following a referral from the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), an investigation was launched by Tarian, the regional organised crime team for southern Wales. The investigation uncovered Kaur was offering services to test applicants who had difficulty with the English language. Kaur, from Llanelli, pleaded…

A group of fathers of children supported by Tŷ Hafan children’s hospice have completed an extreme challenge which involved three days of almost non-stop physical exertion in a bid to raise funds for the charity. The team of eight managed to successfully scale Wales’ 10 highest peaks in just two days, then cycle 53 miles from Brecon to St David’s Hotel in Cardiff Bay on Saturday, completing the whole challenge from start to finish in just over 55 hours. The challenge was the brain-child of a group of dads led by commercial photographer Paul Fears, 56, whose son Greg, now 30, was looked after…

South Wales-based Hensol Castle Distillery has announced a record-breaking May as it increases staff numbers and production to keep up with demand for its award-winning spirits. Production reached an all-time monthly high for the distillery – the only one of its kind in the UK to be located in the cellars of a Grade I listed castle, peaking at £465,000 excluding duty & VAT, 20% above the previous highest monthly revenue, which was in November 2021. The announcement comes as the distillery introduces a second daily shift and creates 12 new full-time roles in production, administration and accounting, taking the…

The staff of Sunderland Ward, South Pembrokeshire Hospital are taking part in a bed push to raise funds for wellbeing activities.  The bed push, which is planned for the 16th July 2022, had previously been a regular challenge but was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As restrictions have now been eased, staff are keen to reinstate the event. The staff will be pushing an old bed with a mock patient inside while dressed as superheroes and villains! The planned route begins at South Pembrokeshire Hospital, Pembroke Dock at 1:00pm on 16th July, heads out toPembroke and then returns to…

Flint headquartered sustainable wet-wipe manufacturer Nice-Pak, has received the highest Platinum rating for its sustainability achievements. EcoVadis, the world’s most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings, has placed Nice-Pak in the top one percent of over 90,000 companies across over 200 industries in over 175 countries.   The company’s sustainability policies, initiatives and results were analysed according to 21 criteria across four categories including environment, labour & human rights, sustainable procurement and ethics. Robert Woodall, Managing Director at Nice-Pak International, said: “Nice-Pak have extended our leadership position by putting our bold environmental and ethical commitments into action at a global level.…