Company ranked among the best
Kymin Financial Services has been ranked as one of the UK’s top 100 financial adviser groups in an influential Financial Times chart. Newport-based Kymin is listed at 40,
up nine places from its inaugural 2010 position, in the highly-regarded Financial Times Matrix Solutions Top 100 Financial Advisers 2011. The FT list ranks UK financial adviser
businesses in terms of turnover, fees, size, the number of branches and the kind of
business transacted; investment, pensions, protection, mortgages and insurance. Kymin Financial Services managing
director Gerald Davies said: “It’s very satisfying and extremely encouraging for us to be recognised in this way. “We’re delighted to have achieved such
a position, an improvement on nine places on 2010 our first year in the Financial Times listing, and to be among some of the UK’s most highly regarded firms. “The past 12 months have been
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challenging for everyone including ourselves and we see this placing as recognition of the extremely hard work put in by the entire team and for the quality of service and ultimately the satisfaction we consistently deliver for our customers.” Gerald said Kymin’s recent acquisition
Newport’s oldest established Independent Financial Advisors business, Hancock Life and Pensions, could help the business attain an even higher FT position in 2012.
Technology entrepreneurs fly out to America on scholarship
Three years ago, two graduates from Newport University started a web technology company in their bedrooms. After winning a scholarship this year, they have flown out to Boston to
visit the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Daniel Lewis and Andrew Cargill, who met while studying design at
Newport, started PHP Genie which now employs four staff. Their offices are based only a few miles from the campus where they studied. The company was awarded the ‘University of Wales Traveling
Scholarship’ to MIT in Boston, United States of America, and the duo behind the firm say they are determined to bring business back home to Wales. Daniel Lewis, 27, originally from Abertillery, said: “We’re excited
about receiving the award and having access to leading world scholars in business research and development. We have a strong desire to stay in Wales and help the economy grow in the area of new technology.” The company specialises in web development involving online
shopping carts and specialised applications, such as communication and management systems. It has designed and programmed more than 150 websites for clients
from around Europe. Andrew Cargill, 25, originally from Lincolnshire, said: “We want to
create a specialised technology industry in Wales, a country which has lost a lot of manufacturing to overseas competition. It’s nice to bring investment into Wales, and help new graduates stay in Wales who might otherwise have to leave.” The two were presented their Traveling Scholarship award by The
Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, at a special ceremony organised through the Cardiff Business Club in March at St David’s Hall in Cardiff.
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Food firm expands its reach across Wales
Award-winning South Wales food production company Tillery Valley has won a contract which will enable it to widen its reach by supplying frozen plated meals to establishments within the Welsh Purchasing Consortium. The three-year contract, which was let by Newport City
Council, will allow Tillery Valley to supply high-quality frozen meals from both its ‘Simply Serve Range’, which offers a comprehensive range of frozen individual meals, and the ‘Ready Range’, which benefits from long shelf life, reduced cooking time on site and efficient preparation, to each Council within the consortium. These include: Blaenau Gwent, Merthyr Tydfil, Cardiff City Council, Vale of Glamorgan, Monmouthshire, Torfaen, Ceredigion and Caerphilly. The Welsh Purchasing Consortium, exists to improve
collaboration within local government procurement with the object of effecting savings in public expenditure. To secure the contract, Tillery Valley entered in a competitive
tender process, which accessed the company’s services in terms of quality, price and taste in addition to how the company operates in terms of its accreditations, food production and sustainable practice. As a national meal provider to the public sector across the
UK, Tillery Valley is continually expanding its services and reach including ongoing work with local authorities, hospitals and schools in addition to developing expertise within the ‘Meals on Wheels’ and Care Home sector. The company’s advanced production plant in Abertillery, Gwent, has the capacity to produce one million meals a week, and the site employs 350 people from the local area.
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