Author: Rhys Gregory

Brand communications agency Marsden/Mee is celebrating after winning Branding Project of the Year at the UK Packaging Awards for its work with disruptive femcare brand TOTM. Its founders, Anna Lewis and Becky King, were tasked with creating new packaging for the organic sanitary brand for its Tesco product launch – the first time that TOTM products would appear on shelves around the country. The brief was to design a range of packaging that would immediately express the organic properties of the product, as well as representing the bold and gutsy personality of the brand. The result was vibrant, eye-catching packaging…

A North Wales woman has revealed how her brutal and controlling ex-husband broke her arms, shattered her jaw, shaved her head and made her wear a wig which he took off if he thought another man was looking at her. After surviving two decades of vicious abuse, Fiona (not her real name), 40, has spoken out to support a campaign against domestic violence that’s being championed by the North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner, Arfon Jones, who’s made the issue one of the top priorities in his Police and Crime Plan. Mr Jones is working closely on the White Ribbon…

NatWest is partnering with Moneypenny, the world’s largest and highest rated outsourced communications provider, to bring the 900 entrepreneurs it supports through its Accelerators exclusive access to tools and advice that will help them to grow and develop their businesses. The partnership with Moneypenny will allow the bank to offer free trials for services such as Telephone Answering, Live Chat and the Pocket Phone System to the 900 businesses within the bank’s Accelerator Hubs. Both the technology and quality of service that Moneypenny provide are a cost-efficient way to add value to a business, leaving the Entrepreneurs to concentrate on…

Five years after it first opened as a temporary, eight-week pop-up, Cardiff’s biggest independent warehouse events venue is investing £300,000 into relocating to a new city-centre premises. The DEPOT, who have established themselves as one of the biggest entertainment brands in the city, will cease trading at their current location on at the , and reopen at a new 22,000 sq.ft venue based in a former Lyndons Scaffolding unit on Williams Way, Curran Embankment. The move will increase the venue’s capacity by 25% with the refurbishment of the new site taking place over the next two months, and will open…

A documentary programme that reveals the inside story of how the giant wings of the Airbus A380 ‘superjumbo’ make their first journey has been sold to be shown in 50 countries worldwide. The global co-production was led by North Wales television company, Cwmni Da, who are also celebrating after the series about the world’s tides won a major international award Llanw (Tide) was honoured with the Silver Dragon Award at the prestigious China International Congress of Science and Education Producers in Beijing where big names like National Geographic were also vying for glory. The double dose of good news has…

ISG has secured an £89 million construction project to deliver the Cardiff Transport Interchange building for Cardiff-based developer Rightacres at its flagship Central Square scheme. The project is being funded by Legal & General and designed by Cardiff-based Holder Mathias Architects. This project is a further development of the relationship between ISG and Rightacres, that has already seen ISG successfully deliver the new Foster + Partners designed BBC Cymru Wales headquarter building and  Nr Two Central Square, home to Hugh James and Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, and significant public realm improvements. This latest win is ISG’s single largest UK construction project…

Police in Bridgend are continuing to investigate the sudden death of a 31 year old man who was found dead at a property in the Brackla area on Sunday morning. Following the results of a post mortem carried out today by a Home Office pathologist there is no evidence to suggest an assault or injury. An inquest into the death will be held in due course. South Wales Police request that the family is allowed privacy at this sad time.

Student responsible for racist and homophobic graffiti daubed around Cardiff is jailed after admitting a string of offences A racist student who commemorated Hitler’s birthday by daubing a Swastika on the Senedd is today starting a 16-month jail term after admitting a string of offences. Within two weeks of Elliott Richards-Good arriving in Cardiff to study at Cardiff University in 2018, racist and homophobic literature and graffiti began appearing around the city. Following an initial investigation by South Wales Police, officers from the Wales Extremism Counter Terrorism Unit (WECTU) tracked down the 20-year-old after piecing together CCTV which showed a…

Cardiff-based allergen testing business Indoor Biotechnologies has expanded its offices and laboratory facility at Vision Court in Pentwyn. The company moved to Vision Court in 2017 and has now signed a new 10-year lease on its existing 4,500 sq ft on the ground floor and agreed to take a further 3,492 sq ft – also on the ground floor – on a 10-year lease. Property adviser Knight Frank advised the company in the transaction, while the Vision Court landlord Office Visions Ltd was represented by Fletcher Morgan. Indoor Biotechnologies, which was founded in 1994 by Dr Martin Chapman in Virginia,…

There was success for Ceredigion at the Welsh Indoor Rowing Championships bringing home nine medals. Held on Friday and Saturday, 22 and 23 November at the Channel View Leisure Centre in Cardiff, this was the 20th anniversary of the event. The aim in Ceredigion is to grow indoor rowing and to promote the local Sea Rowing Clubs. On the Friday, 14 children from Aberaeron Comprehensive School and Ysgol Bro Teifi, Llandysul took part in the school event. Some had competed last year for the first time, while others were rowing in the competition for the first time. The standard was…