Inside Story

From sustainable start-ups with eco-centric ideals at their core, to SME's growing their businesses in sustainable ways, and major multinationals looking to make a big difference in reducing their carbon footprint, who are the flagship ‘green’ companies in Wales blazing a trail in low carbon ways of doing business?

Throughout Wales, you’ll find no shortage of gleaming new commercial property – from Tŷ Admiral, the insurance group’s landmark 11-storey headquarters in Cardiff, to the space-age architecture of Menai Science Park on Anglesey.

When it was announced that the new Aston Martin DBX would be built at St Athan, South Wales, nobody was more delighted than Tim Williams – chief executive of the Welsh Automotive Forum (WAF).

When Spanish train manufacturer CAF decided to build a major new assembly plant, it looked at more than 100 potential sites throughout the UK. The clear winner was Newport in South Wales.

As one of the world's largest and most respected insurance, risk management and consulting firms, Gallagher's global success over the past 90 years owes much to the finding and nurturing of new talent.

Duffryn doesn’t look much like the front-line of a battlefield. To the west of Newport, it’s the point where the city’s suburbs yield to a cluster of smart business parks, guarded by lakes, fountains and pampas grass.

Economic regeneration can take its inspiration from unusual sources.

In 2017, General Dynamics UK made headlines by winning the £330 million contract to design and develop Evolve to Open, the UK Ministry of Defence’s next-generation communication system.