Millennium Centre is top attraction - The Press Association

Millennium Centre is top attraction
The Press Association
More than one million people visited the Cardiff Bay arts venue, nicknamed The Armadillo, in 2011 - an increase of more than 3.1% on the previous 12 months. An annual poll showed that last year 15.8 million people visited Wales's 214 tourist ...

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The (early) Lunch Wrap - FT Alphaville (blog)

The (early) Lunch Wrap
FT Alphaville (blog)
Volumes have been falling: Cardiff looks into what might be behind lower volumes and notes that stock-splits might have something to do with it. Other reasons include fewer IPOs, more companies going private, and more share-buybacks.

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Portmeirion is the most visited tourist attraction in Wales - Daily Post North Wales

Portmeirion is the most visited tourist attraction in Wales
Daily Post North Wales
Cardiff's Millennium Centre remains the most popular visitor attraction in Wales for the fifth year running, with one million visitors. Portmeirion, designed by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis and opened in 1926, has been drawing in tourists for decades, ...

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Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port boost for Welsh workers - BBC News


BBC News
Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port boost for Welsh workers
BBC News
Prof Garel Rhys, from Cardiff Business School, said that will also mean hundreds of new jobs. "This is very good news indeed for the local economy, including the one in north-east Wales," said Prof Rhys. "This plant now will go to three-shift working ...

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Firstsource suggests 'misunderstanding' over Cardiff call centre job announcement - BBC News


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Firstsource suggests 'misunderstanding' over Cardiff call centre job announcement
BBC News
"It is not the time to be drawn into a debate on what is clearly a matter of semantics - the creation and safeguarding of jobs are of equal importance in terms of the economy and the individuals involved." The call centre industry in Wales has broadly ...

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Birmingham Airport repositioning as a national UK gateway point - CAPA - Centre for Aviation

Birmingham Airport repositioning as a national UK gateway point
CAPA - Centre for Aviation
The ambition emanates from CEO Paul Kehoe, originally with BAe Systems and quickly moving into the CEO role at London Luton and Bristol airports before taking up the current brief in Oct-2008; also John Morris, the Head of Government and Industry ...

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Wales Fast Growth 50 launched today - Daily Post North Wales

Wales Fast Growth 50 launched today
Daily Post North Wales
Since 1999, 418 firms have been recognised in the 13 fast growth 50 lists published, creating around 18000 jobs and generating over £10 billion of additional turnover into the Welsh economy, much of which is spent on local goods and services.

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