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Eighteen companies have been appointed to the North Wales Construction Partnership, a £500m framework for North Wales.

48 shipping containers could be transformed into office space near the River Taff if plans are approved by Cardiff Council.

Recruit 121, a Cardiff-based recruitment agency specialising in the accountancy sector will expand using backing from the Welsh government. This will create 61 jobs.

Denbighshire County Council has bought the former Savoy Hotel and Queens Market buildings.

Plans to replace the South Wales Argus offices at Bideford Road, Newport, with a new Lidl supermarket have been positively recommended by planning officers.

A Kronospan site in Chirk has had its expansion plans approved, which could save 600 jobs.

A programme set up by the Welsh government which supports SMEs has supported its 5,000th new job.

Plans to build a new warehouse at an automotive parts manufacturer in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, have been submitted.

Neath Vale Business Park has now reached full industrial capacity as a timber manufacturing company moves in.

Swansea Building Society has moved across the city centre from Cradock Street to 1-4 Portland Street.

The budget supermarket Lidl will nearly triple its footprint at Parc Tawe North retail park in Swansea by taking the 35,000 square foot space recently vacated by Homebase.

Henllan Bakery will open a new facility for cakes and biscuits this month. Their pre-Christmas period was exceedingly busy, producing ten thousand mince pies a day and shipping fifty thousand of them to the USA. Production director Tom Moore said: "We have grown massively and we had to make a decision to move and get bigger premises. "The opening of the new bakery has meant lots of planning and the creation of new jobs and lots of apprenticeships aimed at bringing the next generation of bakers through.&q