Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) back issues from July 2009:
Fears over public finances after economy's steepest fall in 50 years; And recession began earlier than thought, figures show.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Si'n Barry THE UK economy recorded its sharpest decline in more than 50 years during the first quarter of 2009, figures showed yesterday. And revisions to figures revealed the current recession began earlier than first thought, with a 0.1% decline seen between ...
Admiral drives into the United States.
Jul 01, 2009 ... THIS is the man leading Admiral Insurance's drive to conquer the United States - and he is under no illusions as to the magnitude of the task. In an exclusive interview with the Western Mail, Andrew Rose, chief executive of Admiral Americas, has outlined the challenges he faces ...
Admiral puts trust in 'old man' Rose as it bids to conquer US; Insurance giant's arrival makes waves across the pond.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Aled Blake ADMIRAL'S Andrew Rose is a man under the spotlight in the US state of Virginia. As America copes with one of the worst recessions of the post-war period, positive news stories on the jobs front are few and far between. So when it emerged ...
pounds 8m project aims to give Wales better leadership.
Jul 01, 2009 ... A NEW pounds 8m project aimed at improving leadership levels in small companies has been unveiled. s by Swansea University, is being backed by pounds 5m from the European Social Fund (ESF). The university will work with owners and managers of small enterprises ...
Welshman saves Kwik Save - in Spain.
Jul 01, 2009 ... ONE of the iconic names on the UK high street, Kwik Save, has been revived by Welshman Peter O'Toole. Rhoose-born Mr O'Toole, a former regional manager with Kwik Save - which prior to its merger with Somerfield was a Prestatyn-based FTSE-100 venture - has launched his first Kwik ...
Still time to enter the race to find fastest-growing firm.
Jul 01, 2009 ... COMPANIES still have time to enter this year's race to find the fastest-growing firm in Wales. First published by the Western Mail in 1999, the Wales Fast Growth 50 project has become firmly established as the list of business success to which entrepreneurs across Wales aspire. ...
Co-operatives have a high profile in Wales, survey shows.
Jul 01, 2009 ... THE concept of co-operatives is "embedded" in society in Wales, the movement said yesterday. It commissioned the University of Glamorgan to conduct a study into co-operatives and people's understanding of what co-operatives are and do. The research found that more ...
Regulatory pressure will hamper banks' ability to lend, BBA warns; Conference hears plea for end to tripartite power struggle.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Si'n Barry GOVERNMENT plans to tighten up regulation of the banking industry threaten to hamstring the sector and further add to the UK's lending woes, the British Bankers' Association has warned. Angela Knight, chief executive of the BBA, said at the group's ...
300 jobs at risk as Gala Coral unveils plans to close five clubs.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Si'n Barry THE UK's biggest bingo operator Gala Coral yesterday said it planned to close five clubs and shed backroom staff, putting around 300 jobs at risk. The privately-owned firm is looking to make savings in support functions, and will begin consultation ...
Normal trading conditions more than a year away, Carpetright chief warns as profits plunge 72%.(Financial report)
Jul 01, 2009 ... THE long-serving boss of Carpetright has revealed a 72% profits slump and warned more normal trading conditions were still more than 12 months away. Lord Harris of Peckham, the company's chairman and chief executive, described his 51st year of selling carpets as "extremely ...
Rivals' collapse is music to HMV ears in 'difficult' climate; Growing group's profits hit pounds 63m.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Si'n Barry MUSIC and games group HMV yesterday said the demise of rivals and benefits from its turnaround plan had boosted profits in a "difficult" retail climate. The collapse of Woolworths and rival Zavvi late last year has helped HMV grow market share and ...
Revenue growth slows at transport giant Arriva.
Jul 01, 2009 ... TRANSPORT group Arriva yesterday warned that slackening growth at its CrossCountry rail franchise would dent first-half results. The franchise - which includes services from Aberdeen to Penzance and Bournemouth to Manchester - saw revenue growth slow to 2.4% in the first five ...
New wave of start-ups grow in Sir Terry's graduate garden; Companies established after 'pressure cooker' mentoring.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Si'n Barry SIR TERRY MATTHEWS is turning to some of the world's brightest graduates to run a new wave of technology start-up companies. His self-described "ecosystem" - graduate entrepreneurship programme - is also pioneering a new start-up model in a sector ...
'Don't use recession as excuse to close pension schemes'.
Jul 01, 2009 ... A UNION leader warned yesterday against employers using the recession as an excuse to take a "slash and burn" approach to occupational pensions. TUC general secretary Brendan Barber urged pension scheme trustees and trade unionists to fight any attack on pensions and to help ...
Manufacturers call on the Government for more support.
Jul 01, 2009 ... BUSINESS leaders are today pressing the case for a bigger manufacturing base to help tackle challenges such as climate change, as well as boosting the economy. The Engineering Employers Federation said manufacturing should be at the centre of a more diverse and durable economy. ...
'At present Terry is funding an extension of education'.
Jul 01, 2009 ... SIR TERRY'S graduate entrepreneurship programme is attracting strong interest from governments around the world. Panel member of the programme Simon Gibson said the model was ideal in the current market, where funding for start-ups from venture capital funds was extremely hard ...
How to win new business - over a friendly drink; ADVERTISING FEATURE: Business Scene's regional director Allan Blair Beaton II, highlights the benefits of Cardiff Connections.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Allan Blair Beaton WITH the Cardiff Connections event two weeks away, we thought we would share with you some top tips for making the most of the event or indeed any networking event! If you haven't yet registered see the details at the bottom of this article. ...
For the health of our society let's hope help for young jobless works.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: davidrosser WHEN can a forecast of three million people unemployed be seen as good news? Well, I guess when the previous forecast was for 3.25m. The CBI has just released its latest economic forecasts and has reduced its estimated peak unemployment figure, ...
Lloyds to cut 2,100 more jobs.
Jul 01, 2009 ... THE finance sector was hit by another jobs hammer blow yesterday with news that Lloyds is to cut 2,100 posts. Staff were told that the cuts will affect the firm's commercial and group operations, hitting offices across the country. The Unite union said it was ...
Hi-tech ventures on their way to Wales - with 70 jobs; Two projects win Technium awards.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Si'n Barry TWO technology ventures are moving to Wales with inward investment projects that will create more than 70 jobs. The projects are from Oxford-based start-up Madison Animal Health and USA-based Roomlinx, which won the UK and International Technium ...
Itec takes over two independent training providers.(Company overview)
Jul 01, 2009 ... A TRAINING and education organisation is extending its service to 17 more sites across South Wales after the takeover of two independent training providers. Dash Training and Valleys Training, which have a combined turnover of pounds 2.5m, have been acquired by Cardiff-based ...
Green towers to spring out of a former steelworks' basement; Garden for next year's Eisteddfod.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Si'n Barry A CONCRETE basement at the former steelworks at Ebbw Vale is to be transformed into a vertical garden for next year's National Eisteddfod. Welsh architects Lianne Russ and Philip Henshaw have been chosen as the winners of an unusual design ...
GreenThumb makes its mark in branding.
Jul 01, 2009 ... "In difficult economic conditions, they have raised their game and ensured that the entire network not only remains resilient, but actually generates new business and opportunities." He added: "Their performance is a testament to the franchising industry, which now generates ...
'IFAs have failed to protect conservative investors'.
Jul 01, 2009 ... PRIVATE investors have seen significant deterioration in wealth due to poor investment strategies from independent financial advisers since the onset of the credit crunch. Research conducted by YouGov and commissioned by the World Gold Council shows a significant breakdown in ...
Former dancer leads West accountants.
Jul 01, 2009 ... FORMER professional dancer Sandra McAlister has taken up a new role representing certified accountants in West Wales. Ms McAlister has been elected president of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants' Swansea and West Wales members network, taking over from Garry ...
Scarlets promote Jon Daniels to operations director.
Jul 01, 2009 ... PROFESSIONAL rugby region the Scarlets has appointed Jon Daniels as its new operations director. Mr Daniels, aged 37, has been promoted from his role as the rugby region's head of regional operations. Reporting directly to incoming chief executive Paul Sergeant, Mr ...
pounds 400,000 backing for a place both youngsters and parents can enjoy; 'Five-star play environment for children'.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Si'n Barry WHILE most astrophysicists are helping to plan flights into space, Aaron Wagg is launching a much more down-to-earth business. The Cardiff University astrophysics graduate is about to light the touch paper on his second child play business in ...
Imaginet gets rail firm online by mobile.
Jul 01, 2009 ... CARDIFF-BASED web design company Imaginet has designed a mobile internet site for Chiltern Railways. The contract sees Chiltern Railways becoming one of the first operators to offer their passengers a mobile site which is compatible with the majority of mobile phones. ...
Wilkinson goes it alone in his new PR and marketing venture.
Jul 01, 2009 ... A NEW public relations and marketing consultancy has been launched in South Wales by John Wilkinson. Mr Wilkinson, who is also the treasurer of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations in Wales, has worked across public and private sector organisations for the last 17 years. ...
Seatag passenger scanner wins marine safety award; Device is tested on cruise liner in Alaska.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Si'n Barry A HANDHELD safety system which can accurately account for passengers on cruise liners during emergency evacuations has received international recognition. The CT@G system - designed by Seatag Safety Systems of Anglesey and its technology partners ...
Speaking out for business in Caerphilly.
Jul 01, 2009 ... THE new chairman of Caerphilly Business Forum says he wants to strengthen the voice of businesses in the county borough. Martyn Fear founded the Bedwas concrete company, Specialist Precast Products, 18 years ago. It is now known as Consolidated Brick. Since selling the business ...
Can Disney might wrestle remote control from Sky? BSkyB fights back as media referee attacks its iron grip.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Si'n Barry SPORTS broadcaster Setanta was the latest in a long line of firms to challenge the might of BSkyB, but its demise highlights the difficulties faced by companies trying to loosen the satellite giant's iron grip on the pay TV market. Broadcasting ...
Confidence increases among charities.
Jul 01, 2009 ... THE number of charity and voluntary sector leaders who believe economic conditions will improve over the next 12 months has increased this quarter, according a survey The National Council for Voluntary Organisation's latest quarterly Charity Forecast Survey reveals overall confidence ...
World's population of wealthy individuals in decline.
Jul 01, 2009 ... THE number of rich people in the world, including Britain, is falling, according to a report. The world's population of individuals with net assets of at least $1m (pounds 607,000), excluding their main residence, fell 14.9% in 2008, while the figure in Britain fell by 26.3%, ...
Cost of running a property lowest since 2006.
Jul 01, 2009 ... THE cost of owning and running a home has fallen by nearly a fifth during the past year to its lowest level since 2006. The average property cost pounds 7,298 a year to run in the 12 months to April, 17% less than during the previous year, according to high-street bank Halifax. ...
More has to be done as pension funds lose value; But bank-robbing exploits of German OAPs is no answer.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: andrew farr IN A TIME of continuing bad news, one of the most shocking revelations about the state of our economy came last week from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The OECD reported that older workers in the UK have become one of ...
College Ystrad Mynach is given the Midas touch.
Jul 01, 2009 ... CONSTRUCTION company Midas has started work on a new pounds 5m project at College Ystrad Mynach in Hengoed. The company is building a four-storey teaching facility and link building for the college. The new build will comprise 13 classrooms and a new library - providing the ...
No to waste plant 'could cost hundreds of jobs' Business park developers attack 'short-sightedness'.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Abby Alford BUSINESSES could shun a multi-million-pound business park if a council carries out its threat to refuse planning permission for a waste incinerator on the same site. That is the claim of developers PMG as planners in Cardiff prepare to reject the ...
Agents Fletcher Morgan best in Wales and West.
Jul 01, 2009 ... FLETCHER MORGAN of Cardiff has been named the best commercial agents in Wales and the West of England. The firm took the title in the Estate Gazette's annual awards, based on the votes of companies in the property sector. Fletcher Morgan will now represent Wales and ...
New Uwic campus hub is topped out in Cyncoed.
Jul 01, 2009 ... A CAMPUS building which is part of a pounds 50m redevelopment programme has moved a step closer to completion. The topping-out ceremony has been held at the Campus Centre at the Cyncoed campus of the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. The centre will be the hub ...
Darwin Gray gains a partner.
Jul 01, 2009 ... DARWIN GRAY has further strengthened its employment law team with the appointment of Damian Phillips as a partner. Mr Phillips was formerly a senior associate specialising in employment law at Hugh James where he worked for six years. Prior to that, he worked in the employment ...
Three join UHY Peacheys.
Jul 01, 2009 ... SOUTH WALES accountancy firm UHY Peacheys has appointed three members of staff to help deal with the impact of new business wins. The Newport and Abergavenny company has taken on Denise Clark as audit and assurance manager and Hazel Tanner and Nic Ward as audit and assurance ...
Pair appointed to support graduate entrepreneurs.
Jul 01, 2009 ... BUSINESS support agency Venture Wales has made two key appointments to lead its graduate start-up programme after successfully winning the new Flexible Support for Business contract. Phil Dodson, from Merthyr Tydfil, has been appointed as manager of the graduate start-up support ...
Support for small builders.
Jul 01, 2009 ... THE National Federation of Builders (NFB) has strengthened its support of small to medium-sized contractors with the appointment of Philip Avery as director for Wales and the south west of England. He will lead the NFB Wales Cardiff-based office - providing advice and specialist ...
It's not just vegetables that Brussels controls.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Tim Jenkins TODAY is significant for many reasons, not least because rules prohibiting the sale of bent cucumbers and other misshapen fruit and vegetables are repealed by the EU. Under the previous law 26 types of fruit and veg were verboten. But if you think ...
Poor US numbers infect London's performance; citybulletin.
Jul 01, 2009 ... DISAPPOINTING economic readings in the US sent London's FTSE 100 Index into the red yesterday after a poor final session of the second quarter. Early falls on Wall Street saw a late session turn for the worse on the Footsie, which closed down more than 1% with a fall of 44.8 ...
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Unhappy patients will cost Welsh GP surgeries millions.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Madeleine Brindley GP SURGERIES across Wales face funding cuts totalling up to pounds 2m as punishment for not providing good enough access to appointments. The cuts have been determined by the answers more than 161,000 people in Wales gave to two questions in ...
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Botched pounds 60 boiler repair poisoned pair, court told.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Rhiannon Beacham TWO pensioners died of carbon monoxide poisoning after a gas fitter's botched boiler repair, a court has heard. The bodies of Margaret Eileen Powell, 72, and her friend Thomas Gwyn Morgan, 74, were found slumped on a sofa at Mrs Powell's home ...
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'I realised it was serious and started watching him rather than the game' Girlfriend Nicole didn't know where to turn when Adam Jones went down.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Steffan Rhys EVERY visiting Lions fan inside the Loftus Versfeld cauldron hoped for the best when Adam Jones dropped to his knees. But one woman spent the next few hours frantically waiting for news of the injured Welsh rugby star. Jones' ...
Tory AMs on tour ran up a further bill of pounds 12,200; Three more trips led by Nick Bourne to European capitals.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Martin Shipton TORY AMs on tour have run up bills for the taxpayer of more than pounds 12,200 on three trips to European capitals on top of the pounds 6,500 Brussels binge we revealed yesterday. An analysis of travel claims made by Conservative AMs in 2007-08 ...
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Kinnock takes her seat in Lords; wales newsbulletin.
Jul 01, 2009 ... NEW Europe Minister Glenys Kinnock took her seat in the House of Lords yesterday. Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead was watched by her husband Labour leader ...
Hain joins Royal Mail opposition; wales newsbulletin.
Jul 01, 2009 ... OPPOSITION in Labour ranks to plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail has scaled new heights, with 150 MPs, including Cabinet Minister Peter Hain, signing up to a motion condemning it. The Welsh ...
Woman charged with girl's murder; wales newsbulletin.
Jul 01, 2009 ... A 34-YEAR-OLD woman has been charged with the murder of four-year-old ZoeAnne David. The child's body was found in her bedroom by police on June 19 after they were called by an ambulance crew treating her mother at a house in Bideford Close, in the Maesglas ...
Rhodri's plea to save Irish consulate.
Jul 01, 2009 ... THE Irish Government has confirmed it is closing its consulate in Wales, despite a plea from First Minister Rhodri Morgan. The consulate opened in May 1999, the same month that the National Assembly was established. Last night a spokeswoman for the Assembly Government ...
Staff car parking costs spiral at the National Assembly; Campaigner criticises failure to promote other transport.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Martin Shipton NATIONAL Assembly officials have come under fire as it emerged that taxpayers' money is being used to provide them with free parking. A leading environmentalist said the arrangement, disclosed following a Freedom of Information request from the ...
NHS staf f still not protected from violence, say AMs.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: David Williamson NOT enough is being done to protect NHS staff from violence and aggression, a cross-party group of AMs will claim today. They will condemn a "general lack of urgency" and a low level of prosecution. There is concern that the ...
'He has done nothing but good forWales. You have to be an arch-cynic to deny that' Welsh organisations 'queuing up ' to ask Prince to be their patron.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Tomos Livingstone PRINCE CHARLES has done "nothing but good for Wales", one of his former aides said last night. Speaking on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Prince's Investiture at Caernarfon Castle Alun Davies, a former equerry to the Prince, told the ...
Menezes officer promoted to pounds 172k post; uk newsbulletin.
Jul 01, 2009 ... The senior officer who oversaw the operation that led to the death of Jean Charles de Menezes has been promoted to one of the top roles at Scotland Yard. Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick has taken responsibility for the Metropolitan Police's specialist crime wing. ...