Capital Ideas has snapped up a controlling 50 per cent stake in Sussex email marketing company E2Mail for about £5,000, with an additional loan of £45,000. Capital Ideas has the option to buy the remaining 50 per cent of the business at any time. In addition, selected assets of London email marketing company Frankdata have also been acquired.

Cooke & Arkwright has acquired new offices at Robert Hitchins’ speculative development Central Park, on Western Avenue in Bridgend. It has also sold the first two newly completed units of almost 5,000 sq ft to Cardiff-based Daydream Education. Another two 5,000 sq ft units have just been signed to Ebtek and two further units are under offer.

Vale Healthcare has appointed Tim Atter to the role of business director in preparation for the summer opening of its new clinic in Cardiff Bay. He will be responsible for helping chief executive Lis Neil to grow the company in South Wales and develop the Vale Healthcare brand in the sports medicine field. He will also be co-ordinating the medical care of the Cardiff Blues and is their senior physiotherapist. Atter played rugby professionally before he moved into sports medicine and has since worked for the Welsh Rugby Union and the Great Britain ice hockey team.

Russell Goodway has been appointed as the new business development director at Cardiff-based Paramount Office Interiors. Goodway will oversee business development generally, but has indicated that a major part of the company's forward plan will be to secure more public sector contracts and further expand the company's operations outside South Wales, including maximising any opportunities generated by the London Olympics.

Knight Frank has made two promotions at its Cardiff logistics and industrial team. Owen Pritchard has been promoted to partner and Stephen Myers to associate. Myers joined Knight Frank in 2005 and works alongside Pritchard covering advice on single properties, development land, industrial estates and industrial portfolios.

Work is under way on a new £525,00 leisure facility on Newport Road, Cardiff. Boulders, which has investment from Finance Wales, will be one of the largest facilities of its kind in Wales. The new facility has also received equity investment from two business angels through Xénos, the Wales Business Angel Network. Boulders has received business advice from Cardiff independent chartered accountants BPU.

Contour Premium Aircraft Seating is expanding its operations in Cwmbran. The company, which developed the first flat bed for British Airways, is bringing some component manufacturing in-house and the expansion of activities will create 51 jobs. The investment has been supported by the Assembly with grant aid and will bring the total number employed at the site to nearly 900.

The third Cardiff Web Scene Meet Up takes place on Wednesday June 4th at 10 Feet Tall in Cardiff. The event is an opportunity for those involved in the web industry in South Wales to network. Matthew Cashmore, senior research producer for BBC Future Media & Technology, will be speaking at the event.