Feb 032012
 

DIRECTOR with PwC, Ken Poole, has been appointed head of economic development at Cardiff Council.

 

STAFF at troubled retailer Peacocks have called for any potential buyer to keep its head office and distribution depots in Wales.

 

STAFF at troubled retailer Peacocks have called for any potential buyer to keep its head office and distribution depots in Wales.

 

EFFORTS to secure a financial lifeline to keep the Swansea to Cork Ferry service afloat have failed.

 

THE Co-operative Group is to recruit 800 new apprentices this year, twice as many as in 2011, based in one of its businesses ranging from food and pharmacy to farming and funerals.

 

A DOUBLING in UK sales of its Kindle e-book reader failed to stop Amazon – the world’s biggest online retailer – suffering a profits slump.

 

THE manufacturing sector enjoyed a better-than-expected performance in January, expanding at its fastest rate for eight months.

 

A hard-hitting report commissioned by Cardiff Business Partnership has called for greater co-ordination among bodies promoting investment in Wales, together with more proactive marketing. Here, some leading economic development experts give their views on the Cardiff Business School study – Selling Wales: The Role of Agencies in Attracting Inward Investment

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