The biggest companies in Wales have emerged from the downturn in fine form, Insider's Top 300 ranking shows. Combined pre-tax profits are up 200 per cent on last year. We profile some of the companies making a difference to Wales' bottom line. Also in the May 2011 edition, Inside Export, our comprehensive guide to selling and moving goods overseas; a look at the events industry in Wales, buoyed up after the Ryder cup; and tips on raising finance for early stage companies. Plus interviews with Cardiff's St David's Centre director Steven Madeley and John Bennett, chief executive of the Welsh Social Enterprise Coalition.
Is Wales moving towards the rest of the UK, or going its own way? Within weeks, we will have a newly elected Assembly Government free to make its own laws. That will create differences.
Wales has put on some great events in recent years, and that experience should help it to win more work in the future. Charles Williams reports.
Douglas Friedli finds the manager of Cardiff's St David's Centre in cheerful mood as another high-profile retailer moves in.
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