Please see below, a summary of businesses that have been supported by the Accelerated Growth Programme. 

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Wire harness solutions start-up looks forward to growth after a whirlwind first year

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"Business Wales AGP will help scale up the business with a view of starting manufacturing and warehousing in the near future."

Our blog series talking to businesses we've helped and provided support to continues with a focus on Wrexham-based Pinnacle Harnesses. The company was founded by Phill Harry, who has more than 33 years in different roles in the fast-moving goods electronics industry – including engineering and purchasing. Phill decided to go it alone and started Pinnacle Harnesses Ltd early in 2019. Here, Phill Harry shares what he's learned as his business has evolved and found...
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Fuel delivery system manufacturer’s sector-changing design

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“Business Wales AGP helped us realise that upscaling is all about hiring the right people with the right skills, at the right time.”

Our blog series looking at the companies Business Wales AGP has helped continues, with FuelActive – a groundbreaking fuel delivery system manufacturer based in Taff’s Well. FuelActive has developed a method of fuel delivery which eradicates issues which result from contaminated diesel. The patented FuelActive unit replaces the standard pick-up pipe and only delivers the cleanest fuel in the tank. The story of FuelActive began in 1998, led by founder Mike James. Mike, an engineer...
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Graduate start-up firm with ambitions to compete with online marketplace giants.

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“Business Wales AGP has been instrumental in getting Paperclip over some growth barriers.”

Our blog takes another look at a business which we’ve provided support and expertise to in their efforts to expand and grow into new markets. Paperclip is an award-winning student marketplace provider, with more than 30 universities onboard. With a vision to ultimately challenge the likes of eBay and Gumtree, Paperclip allows students to buy, sell and swap on campus. The firm has 17 full-time staff and has headquarters in Cardiff city centre. Founder Rich...
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Fast-growing and award-winning engineering firm shares keys to growth so far

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“Business Wales AGP’s help with IT has been so valuable”

In the latest of our blog series, we talk to another business we work with, to find out more about their journey, ambitions and top tips for business success. Under the spotlight is Evabuild. Nick Evans, the company’s founder and managing director, worked as a civil engineer before establishing EvaBuild. The company, which was founded in 2011, is a specialist in civil engineering, construction and groundworks and provides professional site surveys, ground investigations as well...
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AGP in the news, as it creates its 6000th job.

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Pontypool based digital pharmacy firm PillTime creates a milestone 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 .
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Workplace protection manufacturer celebrates staff as it maps out future growth

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“Marketing and PR and specific sales coaching from Business Wales AGP have been most valuable for us”

In the latest of our blog series, we talk to another business we work with, to find out more about their journey, ambitions and top tips for business success. Under the spotlight is Workplace Worksafe, founded by managing director Rhian Parry. The Ruthin-based firm has grown steadily in recent years and has ambitions for further growth. Originally, the business supplied general personal protection equipment but has recently expanded into specialist areas offering protection items for...
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Academics’ business uses years of research to deliver specialist tools to help neurodivergent people.

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“Business Wales AGP helped develop our business strategy, enhance our financial planning and management as well as branding and marketing strategy”

In the latest of our blog series, we talk to one of the inspiring businesses we work with, to find out more about their journey, ambitions and top tips for business success. Under the spotlight is Do-IT Solutions. Founded by Professor Amanda Kirby and Dr Ian Smythe, Cardiff-based Do-IT Solutions works with organisations, providing services to support people who may be neurodivergent – for example, learning difficulties and disabilities . As experts in learning and...
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Positive quotes from AGP client Bond Digital Health

Ian Bond, co-founder of Bond Digital Health, a rapidly-growing Welsh health technology firm based in Cardiff, describes his experiences of being on the Business Wales Accelerated Growth Programme, (AGP): “Working with AGP has been worth its weight in gold in helping us get there". "When you are a CEO of a small startup company, you need someone to tell you that you are wrong, because there’s nobody else to". "In addition to that honest advice...
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Welsh Tech Firm Turning Waste Shells Into Swimming Pool Cleaner

Pennotec, a technology firm based in Y Ffôr near Pwllheli in Gwynedd, Wales, is entering the next stage of development for a new product turning waste shells from seafood processing into a swimming pool cleaner. The Welsh firm, supported by the Business Wales Accelerated Growth Programme (AGP), which assists companies with business growth, training and investment, works on finding new ways to turn industrial food waste into everyday products and reduce the amount of waste...
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Seven Business Wales Accelerated Growth Programme companies recognised at the Wales Start-Up Awards

Seven firms on the Business Wales Accelerated Growth Programme picked up gongs at the recent Wales Start-Up Awards . The winners were announced on September 20th at an informal ceremony at Cardiff’s DEPOT, an entrepreneurial start-up business offering street food and craft beer from Welsh enterprises. Winners included luxury stationery company Sadler Jones, prosthetic limb design specialist Limb-Art and The Good Wash Company, a new luxury toiletry brand that aims to change the world “one...

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