Daily Post

Bears Help Entrepreneurs to Runner-Up Spot Inuk Awards

TEDDY Bear kits from a Llandudno- based business have been voted one of the top gifts in the UK. The ted dies earned Be My Bear a runner-up slot in the Giftware Association's Gift of the Year 2004 awards.

Taiwan Airbus Talk Boosts Bae Shares ; Us Bosses Tour Welsh Wonder Plant

SHARES in aerospace and defence group BAE Systems jumped yesterday amid speculation that Taiwan is looking at the purchase of Airbus A380 superjumbos. The company which has a 20% stake in Airbus was also helped by reports that it was lining up a large defence contract in Singapore.

Bid to Remain Competitive

AN organisation has been launched to ensure the pounds 400m-a- year contact centre industry in Wales remains internationally competitive. The Welsh Contact Centre Forum Ltd, a not for profit company limited by guarantee, will represent the interests of the 130 employers whooper ate contact centres throughout Wales. The industry employs more than 24,000 people,but faces increasingly tough global competition.

Getting Started

Expansion of Impact Leisure Will Bring More Jobs

JOBS will be created at a Conwy Valley- based company which is moving to larger premises to meet growing demand for its environmentally-friendly products. Impact Leisure International manufactures and installs bridges and other engineered timber structures, such as walkways for national parks,councils,forestry and environmental organisations, woodland trusts and others.

We'r E Under the Cosh Say Managers

MANAGERS in Wales are overworked and undervalued according to a survey by the Chartered Management Institute and Adecco. The Business Energy Survey found that Welsh managers put business ahead of family, and work within a negative culture.

Window On the World Opens Up for Man Who Still Thinks Local ; Business Profile David Jones Talks to Drew Pritchard, Who Is Committed to Wales Despite His Business Reaching As Far As the Usa and Japan

HAVE nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful." It's a quote from the 19th century painter and craftsman William Morris but it fits Drew Pritchard's outlook on life to a T. Pritchard came across the saying scrawled on the ceiling of the workshop where he was apprenticed to a stained glass restorer in Abergele and it immediately struck a chord with him.

Looking Up ; Women Are Still Struggling to Find Equality in the Workplace,but Glyn Mon Hughes Reports On Some Encouraging Signs

'THIS is your captain speaking' is usually the cue to bury your head further into your book. But when a woman's voice made the announcement on an evening easyJet flight to Barcelona from Liverpool, several heads bobbed up - for she must be one of the very few women pilots.

Medical Publishing Firm Moves Base

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Firm Scoops Award

Minister's Choice

Author Is Speaker

BUSINESSWOMEN across North Wales will this week be urged to make more of their own "personal brand" to enhance their careers. The North Wales Women's Network will welcome Lesley Everett,author of best-selling book "Walking TALL -Key steps to total image impact",as keynote speaker at its summer dinner at St George's Hotel,Llandudno, tomorrow. Bangor-based RJ Training director Rebecca Jones, who founded the network last year, said: "A strong personal brand is what makes people want to do busine...

Smart Idea for Charity

Silver Surfers Bank Online

TWO thirds of Welsh over-50s who use the internet are now managing their finances online,according to a survey from NatWest OnLine Banking. The survey suggests that 'silver surfers' are among the fastest growing internet banking users in Britain.

Tea to China

A FAMILY firm has won a contract to export tea -to China. Taylors of Harrogate has compared the deal to "sending coals to Newcastle" after securing its first shipment to Shanghai.

Practical Guide Offers Food for Thought

OK, so it may not have the snappiest title on the bookshelf and is unlikely to top bestseller lists. But a practical guide for public sector organisations aimed at improving the way they source and supply fresh food could be the answer to a healthier and wealthier Wales.

Us Bosses Tour Warwick Plant ; Company Celebrating 25 Years at Mostyn

BOSSES from Warwick International's American-based parent company have toured the group's Mostyn plant to mark 25 years of operations on the site. Sequa Corporation chairman Norman Alexander and vice chairman and executive officer John Quicke were among a group of directors from the New York-headquartered parent which visited the Dee Estuary site and met staff.

As I See It

I'M a great fan of Radio 4 but I don't usually finds its comedy half hours very funny. But there is one exception, the national treasure called 'I'm Sorry,I Haven't a Clue'.One of its regular items,along with the glorious 'Mornington Crescent',is a listener's letter from a Mrs Trellis,of North Wales,known to get everything upside down. I was delighted to discover last week that she is alive and well and reads my humble column and wrote denouncing me for 'xenophobia' to the Daily Post on June ...

Lobster Pot Firm Fails After Grant Rejected

TWO businessmen say a refusal by the Welsh Assembly to financially support a proposed lobster pot factory means they will have to pull the plug on the new venture. Cousins David and John Astley set up Sentinal Manufacturing Ltd at Llay,Wrexham, in May last year but never saw a single lobster creel come off the production line.