Business
AMMANFORD: The builders’ merchant that started as a Llandeilo sawmill in 1931 posts £92m sales, a 30% profit rise and a national award
LBS Group, still run by the fourth generation of the Davies family, says it grew sales and profits in 2025…
SWANSEA: SPAR replaces university’s longstanding Costcutter
The Singleton campus shop has kept its existing team, with additional paid student roles announced and a wider food range…
CARMARTHEN: Wilko demolition pushed back to next year as council says a tenant “of significant benefit to the town” is in talks
The bulldozers were booked for 26 October. Now there's a new date, a new bill-payer and a tenant the council…
SWANSEA: The seasonal temp who joined Amazon in 2010 is now running the whole Swansea warehouse
Chris Bailey started at the Swansea fulfilment centre as a seasonal associate while finishing a master's degree. Sixteen years on,…
CARMARTHEN: ‘Jobs not rubble’ campaigners want the old Wilko saved for a trampoline park
Buzz Parks says it would spend its own money turning the empty Friars Park store into a family entertainment centre,…
SWANSEA: Leeds Building Society promises its branch will stay open until at least 2031, as banks keep leaving
The mutual says all 51 of its branches, Swansea included, will stay open every weekday with no appointment needed. It…
CARMARTHEN: Food wholesaler heads for a record £75m year as Gower Gin’s ‘Baby Guinness’ liqueur makes its Christmas brochure
Harlech Foodservice, which supplies pubs, restaurants, schools and hospitals from its Carmarthen depot, says festive pre-orders are up 1,100% in…
MANUFACTURING: Seven bosses from Llanelli to Bridgend named among the 130 people “shaping the future” of UK industry
Make UK's new 130 Honours, out on National Manufacturing Day, include the heads of Gower Chemicals, EBS Automation, Rototherm and…
BRIDGEND: TGJones closing-down posters go up in the Rhiw, the second of the region’s seven at-risk stores to go
The shop that was WHSmith until last year has "store closing down, everything must go" posters in its windows at…
PORT TALBOT: Tata is building its new pickle line in a bay the June fire left without a roof
The fire that burned for two days in June took the roof off the far end of the bay where…
BURRY PORT: Tributes to Amcanu boss Owain Davies, 55, killed in Swiss Alps plane crash
The managing director of the Burry Port engineering firm was a passenger in a light aircraft that came down near…