Author: Rhys Gregory

BGB SCAFFOLDING has opened new headquarters and continued to expand after securing international deals during the Coronavirus pandemic. The company – now based at the Port of Mostyn in Flintshire – signed high-profile contracts and framework agreements in the offshore and onshore sectors over the past 12 months. Alongside these exciting opportunities, Managing Director Ben Badham revealed they have been awarded access work in Taiwan – on the Greater Changhua 1 and 2a Offshore Wind Farms – and for the world’s largest offshore windfarm Hornsea 2 off the Yorkshire coast. Ben says the North Wales firm will play its part…

Aldi has announced it is on the lookout for 30 new store locations in Wales. The UK’s fifth largest supermarket has been on an expansion drive in recent years, opening around one new store a week on average to meet demand from new customers. The areas in Wales where it is now looking for sites include Cardiff, Newport, and Swansea. Aldi, which now has more than 900 stores across the UK, is looking for freehold town-centre or edge-of-centre sites suitable for development. It says each site should be around 1.5 acres and able to accommodate a 20,000 sq ft store…

Legal & General Retirement Institutional (“LGRI”) has donated £10,000 to Just Like Us (“the Charity”), a non-profit organisation that tackles homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying. The Charity aims to make education more inclusive and to improve the lives of LGBT+ young people across the UK. The donation will go towards the Charity’s Ambassador programme, which sees the Charity recruit, train and support LGBT+ young people aged 18-25 to become volunteer ambassadors. Once trained, the Charity’s ambassadors will go into schools and colleges to deliver talks and workshops empowering young people and championing and celebrating LGBT+ inclusion and equality. The Charity’s…

Tea that has been grown, harvested and processed in Wales is now gracing the shelves of one of the most iconic food and drink retailers in the world – Fortnum and Mason. Only two years into production, Peterston Tea Estate in the Vale of Glamorgan has seen its tea listed by the world-renowned vendor. Established in the 1980s by her parents as a fruit farm, Lucy took over the business in 2003 and developed the Wild Fig range of award-winning ice cream. However, keen to take the farm in a new direction, Lucy began to research alternative crops that would…

The First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford will open Wales Tech Week 2021 in an exclusive keynote address on Monday 21st June 2021, as part of the week-long festival created to showcase the Welsh technology industry on a global stage. The First Minister joins the event as latest figures show Wales as a world leader in the Coronavirus vaccine roll out, with 85% of the Welsh population having received their first dose of the vaccination, and more than 45% of adults having been fully vaccinated against the virus. With today’s announcement, the First Minister heads a prestigious line-up of world class, international…

Welsh-based further education institution, Gower College Swansea, has scooped a top accolade at a national awards ceremony. Gower College Swansea won Apprenticeship Programme of the Year at the annual Tes FE Awards, which recognises the best further education organisations supporting learners across the UK. Tes, formerly known as the Times Educational Supplement, is one of the leading media outlets for the education sector. The college was commended for developing high quality apprenticeship schemes for local industries, and specifically its work with one of the world’s most recognisable steel producers, Tata. Gower College Swansea then cultivated strong links with other businesses,…

National Dance Company Wales (NDCWales) is pleased to announce Matthew Robinson as the Company’s new Artistic Director. Matthew will join the company in the Autumn direct from his role as Artistic Director of VERVE, the postgraduate company of Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD) where Matthew has led the company for five years. Matthew is a practising artist having worked as a dancer, choreographer, facilitator, Rehearsal Director and Artistic Director. Matthew was appointed Artistic Director of VERVE in 2016, under his direction VERVE became known for its bold commissioning, collaborating with world renowned and fresh choreographic voices like Botis Seva,…

With a ban on new petrol and diesel cars in the UK from 2030 coming into force, and many car manufactures spending more time and money on producing electric vehicles is it time to start thinking about making the switch to an electric car? But the big question is, do people actually want to buy an electric car? In a recent survey by Tyre Shopper, they found that only 16.6.% of respondents would buy an electric car for their next vehicle, with diesel (33.6%) and petrol (28.4%) still being the most popular fuel choice. Whilst we know that petrol and…

Leading bespoke cake and patisserie manufacturer La Crème Patisserie has bucked the pandemic trend by opening its first-ever dedicated retail store. The family-run business, which has manufacturing facilities in Neath and Cwmbran, has signed a 10-year lease on a 1200 square foot premises at 24-26 Llandaff High Street in Cardiff. The store will enable customers to purchase a wide range of high-end cakes, desserts and patisserie to take away. La Crème Patisserie was founded in 2005 by the wife-and-husband team Sian and Ian Hindle. Managing Director and Head Pâtissier Sian previously worked in new product development for Tescos and always…

Fast-growth multi-discipline GS Verde Group has announced further expansion, with the opening of its’ first office outside of the UK, with the launch of GS Verde (Ireland) in Dublin. The new office is located in Dublin 2, Dublin’s premier business district, and follows client led demand   with both new and existing client agreements in the Country across industries including Aviation, SaaS and Technology. Nigel Greenaway, CEO of the GS Verde Group said: “We are very excited to be expanding into Ireland.  Some of the world’s biggest brands including Google, Facebook and Microsoft, have a presence here and we are delighted…