Case Studies

Business Background : NearMeNow is an app that brings all local businesses, together in one place online: Pushing shop front advertising beyond traditional boundaries into the palms of the hands of smartphone users in the local community, whether they’re at home, in the office or in a coffee shop nearby. Helping customers make the decision on where to shop before leaving home and ensuring that those already on the high street take advantage of every...

Business Background : Professor Amanda Kirby (the CEO) and Dr Ian Smythe (the COO) are the founders of Do-IT Solutions. Amanda comes from a clinical and academic perspective, as a doctor and neuroscientist. Amanda manages the company and leads on sales and communication. Ian takes the lead on technological development. With more than 25 years’ experience of working in the field of learning difficulties and with international recognition of their work, these entrepreneurs come with...

Business Background . Martin Baker QPM is the Managing Director for One Team Logic, a multi award-winning Welsh business based in Talbot Green. Since its start in 2014 One Team Logic has grown exponentially, creating over 70 jobs UK-wide, nearly 40 of which are based in Wales. Their safe and trusted safeguarding software MyConcern is used by schools, colleges and other organisations in the UK and worldwide, enabling the secure recording, reporting and monitoring of...

APPLES every day could keep obesity at bay according to future foods pioneer Pennotec, whose science of turning waste fruit into replacements for sugar and fat has just secured £350,000 of Government investment. The technology firm, which has received support from the Business Wales Accelerated Growth Programme, is leading the way by developing fat-mimicking products from apple pomace, the solid leftovers from juicing, cider production and discarded whole fruit. Currently sent for composting or animal...

A revolution in oral care : Brushbox, the UK's first toothbrush & toothpaste subscription box service, delivered when you need it, right to your door. The company, founded in March 2017, went live on January 15th 2018. In its first year, the Cardiff-based firm is aiming to eclipse the 5,000 that subscribed to razor blade service Cornerstone. Brushbox Online venture Brushbox , whose financial backers include former Welsh rugby international Martyn Williams, is the brainchild...

Business Background Delio Wealth helps financial institutions stay relevant to today’s clients by building a direct private market proposition, delivered through a white labelled digital platform. A gap in the industry was identified by Delio’s co-founders, Gareth Lewis and David Newman. Gareth is a Chartered Accountant with experience in investment banking and mergers & acquisitions. He spotted a recurring theme during practice; he realised that the entrepreneurial clientele he dealt with, were not actively engaging...

Business Background Conti's have been producing ice cream using the same family recipe that the founder Angelo Conti, (originally from Bardi in the Northern Italian hills above Parma) created in Lampeter way back in 1933. Now in the 5th generation, Conti’s have developed a range of distinct and unique flavours, simply by adding high quality ingredients to their award winning traditional ice cream base. They additionally run a number of cafés including their original site,...

Business Background Established in 1977 by Gerald Harries, as a haulage business, GD Harries is now the largest producer of quarried aggregates in West Wales, offering services that incorporate anything to do with aggregates, from raw stone to added value products such as tarmacadam, concrete, as well as associated haulage, plant hire, a commercial vehicle service centre and decorative aggregates. Today, GD Harries is owned and managed by Gerald’s son Ian and wife Julie. A...

Accelerator Program was launched as a pilot back in March 2016, the brief was to create and develop a One-to-Many Acceleration platform for pre-start entrepreneurs that over a three-month period would see them advance from the early embryo of a great idea, into: Having full clarity on their business concept Greater understanding of their target market An outline method of product or service delivery; and The basic idea of what it takes to start their...

Accellerated Growth Programme client Laser Wire Solutions , based in Pontypridd, publishes new video on YouTube .