News | Page 6

The latest NatWest PMI® data indicated a further improvement in growth momentum across the Welsh private sector compared to last month. Business activity and new orders both rose, and employment continued to expand. However, business confidence regarding future output fell to the lowest level seen in a year.

Marstons Estates has put plans in for councillors’ approval on a 24-bed hotel, to be built in the grounds of the Plas Coch in Wrexham.

Vale of Glamorgan Council staff disciplinary action records have been revealed.

A senior nurse who had worked the NHS for 8 years admitted to submitting false timesheets 72 times in order to supplement her income, for a total of £10,402.92

EvaBuild, a construction company, has had a successful year in which they increased staff and turnover numbers.

The Wales Online newspaper has put together a list of companies who are creating new jobs in Wales. Over 2,000 of them in total! See the list here. It includes companies like Transport for Wales, The Co-op, and Which?. Not only is this potentially useful for job hunters and recruitment agencies, it is a great sign of business growth and confidence in Wales. Some of the new jobs are due to creation of new offices, new factories or even full-on relocations.

W2 Global Data, a fast-growing fintech company based in Newport, has finished a round of funding worth £1.25million backed by Mercia Fund Managers, Development Bank of Wales and TTI Angels. This brings the total amount raised by the company to over £3.0million.

The increasingly popular Surf Snowdonia leisure destination in North Wales could expand even more in the near future, as it has revealed plans for a multimillion-pound expansion which includes the addition of a four-star hotel with spa and conference and wedding facilities. A new indoor adventure attraction is also envisaged, a news report has revealed.

Last year Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) lost almost 77,000 days of staff productivity thanks to sickness absences attributed to stress and anxiety. This cost the board more than £5.4m. The North Wales health board has been under special measures since 2015 and will remain so until at least June 2019. The statistics came from a Freedom of Information request asking how many sickness days it had recorded due to stress between 2012 and 2017. In 2017, the total number of sickness days was 76,919. In 2016, the number of sickness days was 65,786.

Plans for building 194 new homes in Bridgend have been officially approved by local authorities, a recent news report in the local media has revealed. Developer Barratt Homes has revealed that work on its new Morgan’s Meadow site, which is due to start shortly, will also support around 600 new jobs over the project’s lifetime.

Extending one’s office space is the perfect moment for companies to re-asses their existing time and attendance and access control systems, and that’s exactly the case with Carmarthenshire-based security product manufacturer Morgan Marine, who has opened a 1,097 sq ft extension to its office.

A bespoke furniture company has revealed plans to go on a very ambitious recruitment drive, planning to double its workforce by 2023, a news report in the local business media has been able to suggest.