On May 19th, 2006 at Cardiff Internatinal Arena, the Western Mail Business Awards will be held. In it’s eighth it will “honour an acknowledge the very best in Welsh business“. We would very much hope the “very best” in Swansea, Neath and Port Talbot will apply to enter the awards and hope that some of our local businesses will actually win some of them. Here are the categories:

• Welsh Company of the Year
• Business Achiever of the Year
• Welsh Small Business of the Year
• Welsh People Development Company of the Year
• Young Business Achiever of the Year
• Busnes Dwyieithog – Bilingual Business
• Welsh Innovative Company of the Year
• The Opportunity Wales eCommerce Award
• The Excellence in Marketing Award

Being a deliverer of the Opportunity Wales project we very much hope that a number of clients will fill in the application form. Take a look at the company that won the Opportunity Wales Award last year.