Author: Rhys Gregory

Packaging solutions company Viscose Closures is celebrating the launch of its new branding and website to reflect the company’s robust growth and investment plans. Now incorporating its green mission, the new logo focuses heavily on its sustainable yet secure solutions to support responsible producers and contribute to a green recovery following the pandemic. The website, which has a strong focus on sustainability, launched on 15 February, and offers an improved, more personalised user experience. The site caters for all customers from the smaller artisan producers to large, multinational corporations. The website has full e-commerce functionality allowing customers to follow dedicated…

Leading commercial law firm Acuity Law has partnered with brand reputation specialists Effective Communication, to add an expert Crisis Communications provision to its latest launch. Acuity Reputation Management (ARM) is an innovative, outsourced service providing day-to-day commercial legal support, bespoke to each client or business, no matter their size or needs. ARM gives subscribers instant access to their legal matters, invoicing and legal templates via the Knowledge Bank, while providing a gateway to services and access to experts like the Effective Communication team. Effective Communication has built a reputation as the go-to for crisis management, social media support or bespoke training in…

AN ELITE athlete who claimed the scalp of Olympic legend Sir Mo Farah is setting a different pace by launching a new business. Abergele’s Tom Carter, a former Great Britain mid-distance runner, has opened up the Trainer Container selling On, a new up-and-coming brand of Swiss trainers, alongside a range of sustainable sportswear from Wrexham’s Vinyl Bear. Based at Y Shed, Meliden, the Trainer Container is one of three new businesses to set up there in the last few weeks. Joining Tom in the converted shipping containers-turned business spaces are beautician Johannah Hughes and podiatrist Lorna Hicks. Tom, who beat…

Revered DJ, broadcaster and global dance music legend, Pete Tong has today announced the return of Ibiza Classics with a brand-new show for Cardiff Castle on Friday 8th July, 2022. Since its fruition in 2016 with long-time collaborator and conductor, Jules Buckley, and The Heritage Orchestra plus a whole host of special guest DJs and vocalists, Ibiza Classics has firmly cemented itself as part of the live music calendar becoming the world’s most iconic classical electronic music event. Inventively bold, Ibiza Classics has showcased incredible reimaginings of classic house tracks from ‘Love Can’t Turn Around’, ‘Right Here Right Now’ to…

The founder of FABRIC: The Care Leaver Community, based in Swansea and Neath in Wales has called on local businesses for donations, in order to continue to provide loving homes for children in care. Harri Helvon-Hardy founded FABRIC in 2016. The business provides loving homes to young people aged 16+ who are either Looked After Children, Care Leavers, Homeless young people or Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children, with additional trauma informed support. Last week, she took to LinkedIn with a post which portrayed the stark reality of working in social care in 2022. Harri said: “Right now I feel like the most…

Netomnia, the UK’s fastest-growing wholesale fibre broadband operator, has today announced that its full fibre multi-gigabit network is being rolled out in Barry, South Wales as part of an £8 million investment in the area. Netomnia will provide Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband infrastructure to around 29,000 premises in Barry, delivering access to its robust and reliable broadband network. This follows the announcement of its first move into Wales towards the end of 2021, to provide access to around 55,000 premises in Bridgend to its full fibre network. Barry is renowned as the home of much-loved TV comedy drama Gavin and Stacey…

The latest labour market stats show there is continued strong demand for candidates as evidenced through record vacancy levels which is broad based across all sectors. The challenge for businesses is that there are fewer candidates available as unemployment continues to edge down while employment edges up. Increasing attention is being paid to the inactive group which has grown during the pandemic and in many cases represents people leaving the labour market entirely. A permanently smaller UK workforce compounds recruitment difficulties for employers. Policymakers will also worry about the effect on savings and pensions of early exit from the labour…

voco St David’s Cardiff have launched pioneering treatments in their five star spa from Hashtag Organics ‘La Rue Verte’, a luxury skincare range derived from cannabidiol (CBD) oil.  The expert therapists, all of whom will have received the world’s first CBD cosmetology qualification, will harness the therapeutic benefits of the cannabidiol derived products in conjunction with healing techniques, including reflexology mapping, so that every client can feel targeted relief on their journey to spa induced serenity. Several clinical studies have demonstrated CBD oil can stimulate the endocannabinoid system, a biological system in the body responsible for creating optimum functionality. This system has been directly linked to alleviating inflammation and pain as well as non-physical pains such as anxiety and mood.   Phil Bailey, Spa…

St David’s Cardiff is celebrating the best of Wales, and launching a new limited edition make-up palette in honour of St David’s Day. The new and exclusive Colours of Cymru eyeshadow palette pays homage to local sayings and icons, bringing them to life in 35 vivid colours that you’ll only truly appreciate if you’re Welsh or live in Wales. For the first time, you can wear the eye-catching shade of Caroline Street’s infamous late-night takeaway captured in the colour Chippy Lane Sglodion or be emblazoned with the lush greens of the valleys in the shades of Green Green Grass of…

South-Wales-based firm of Accountants, Mazuma Money, have stunned the market by launching their own bookkeeping software for small businesses as part of their subscription service. Since their launch in 2006, the multi-award-winning firm has carved a niche in the small business market using their innovative purple envelope system to handle clients’ accounts; and now they’ve made a huge splash in the tech space in a way that is sure to ruffle some feathers. Naming the software MazApp, the technology has all the great features of rivals like Xero, but with one huge advantage – there are accountants behind it that…