Inside Story

When it comes to the automotive sector, Wales is truly in the fast lane. Today, our nation is home to 150 companies producing components and systems for the industry, which employs 18,000 people and generates £3 billion for the Welsh economy annually.

Three years ago, Lee Bramald and his team at Flamgard Calidair, one of the world's leading companies in design and manufacturing innovation, received a call about an unspecified job overseas.

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.

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.

If you want an idea of the scale at which Toyota’s Welsh production team goes to work, it’s probably best to let the statistics speak for themselves.

Airbus is one of the great Welsh manufacturing success stories of the age, with the world-class facilities in North Wales setting the global standard in aerospace manufacturing.

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