Mark won the award at the virtual National Final on Tuesday and builds on the same title he won for Wales at the regional final in September. National winners were crowned from a group of 135 founders of 110 businesses who were successful at the regional finals. The Covid-19 pandemic forced the National Final online for the first time. LIMB-art is a British design and manufacturing company based in the heart of beautiful North Wales...
Welsh eco pet product start-up Project Blu secures multi-million-pound deal with US venture capital firm Metamorphosis
The multi-million, multi-year deal will see Metamorphosis take an equity stake in Project Blu, which was founded in 2019 by 35-year-old Geryn Evans. The first global pet brand to offer a full range of sustainable accessories, the company aims to reduce global ocean-bound plastic waste and the broader environmental impact of manufacturing pet products through harnessing innovative textiles and technologies. Project Blu, which recently scooped three Wales Start-Up Awards, has sold over 87,000 products made...
Seven AGP clients scoop Wales Start-Up Awards
The best start-up firms in Wales were honoured at a virtual awards ceremony on Thursday 1 st October 2020, with the overall title going to sustainable pet brand Project Blu. Cardiff-based Project Blu is revolutionising the pet accessories market by transforming polluting materials, including fishing nets, ocean bound plastic, leather waste and recycled clothes, into pet products such as dog beds, collars, leashes and toys. Project Blu has already received support from Mars Petcare and...
Five AGP business leaders named 'Rising Stars' by Insider magazine
This year's cohort features individuals from across Wales who operate in a range of areas including vegan food, security technology and hospitality. Among the 25 Rising Stars – unveiled in full in the latest Wales Business Insider magazine – are leaders of five businesses that are part of the Business Wales Accelerated Growth Programme. They are as follows: Callum Griffith - Clydach Farm Toby White - Market Mate Chris McDermid - MM Engineering Stephanie Locke...
The Business Wales AGP companies responding with action amid the COVID-19 crisis
Thousands of wash packages delivered by luxury brand Social enterprise The GoodWash Company has quickly become renowned for its quality soaps and skincare. The Barry-based firm – a ubiquitous brand in luxury hotels around the world – has been at the forefront in the national response to coronavirus. It has donated thousands of emergency wash packages, containing shampoo and soap bars, directly to frontline healthcare workers. Software firm’s bright future thanks to a financial boost...
How Business Wales AGP firms have responded to the COVID-19 crisis
Bond Digital Health wins equity funding to help fight Covid-19 Health tech firm Bond Digital Health has won a massive investment to aid its development of testing technology for Covid-19. The Cardiff-based firm – which is part of an international consortium producing a diagnostic test for patients suspected of having Covid-19 – quickly secured £700,000 in equity funding through Wealth Club and the Development Bank of Wales. The consortium was set up by Canadian venture...
Accelerated Growth Programme client Rototherm Group to produce 100,000 medical visors a week for the NHS
Rototherm Group, which usually manufactures industrial measuring instruments such as pressure and temperature gauges, has started making the medical visors, in an effort to keep the NHS supplied with vital protective equipment. The firm, which employs just over 100 people at its factory on the Kenfig Industrial Estate near Margam, said it currently has enough material to produce in excess of 1,500,000 protective face shields. Managing Director of Rototherm, Oliver Conger, said: “In a short...
25 Business Wales Accelerated Growth Programme companies recognised on Wales Tech 50 list
A record-breaking 25 firms on the Business Wales Accelerated Growth Programme (AGP) feature in BusinessCloud’s Wales Tech 50 ranking for 2020. The list was decided by a combination of independent judging panel and more than 1,300 reader votes. Amongst the AGP clients to feature are Biopaxium Technologies. The Wrexham-based firm, which produces a smart alternative to plastics in ready meals, tops the ranking of the country's most innovative technology companies. Other businesses benefiting from the...
Business Wales Accelerated Growth Programme clients scoop prestigious Queen’s Awards
Two Business Wales Accelerated Growth Programme clients have scooped prestigious Queen’s Awards. The awards were first established in 1965 and celebrate the success of exciting and innovative businesses which are leading the way with pioneering products or services, delivering impressive social mobility programmes or showing their commitment to excellent sustainable development practices. This year 220 UK businesses have been recognised for their contribution to international trade, innovation, sustainable development and promoting opportunity through social mobility...
AGP in the news, as it creates its 6000th job.
The Business Wales Accelerated Growth Programme - offering tailored support to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) looking to expand, has created its 6,000th job. Read more on Commercial News Media.... Further information about PillTime. Further information on the Business Wales Accelerated Growth Programme.