Business leaders meet 'champion'.Byline: By DAVID JONES David Jones is a common name, particularly in Wales, and there have been several well-known individuals with this name. Variations include Dave Jones and Davy Jones. Business Correspondent THE Lord Mayor of London
The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of London is the Mayor of the City of London and head of the Corporation of London. David Lewis The name David Lewis may refer to several people: Academics
Mr Lewis is making a two-day visit to Wales this week to meet key figures and businesses in the fast growing financial services industry. The grandson of a Welsh sheep farmer, he was officially appointed by the First Minister Rhodri Morgan as one of a number of high profile ambassadors for Wales and has responsibility for promoting and developing the UK's financial services sector. During the Welsh Assembly Government-organised visit on Thursday and Friday he will meet Mr Morgan, Deputy First Minister IeuanWyn Jones and Mike Hnyda, a director of the Welsh Assembly Government's International Business Wales division, as well as representatives from firms including moneysupermarket.com and Wrexham-based Avox. Flintshire-based money supermarket.com floated on the stock market last year and is the UK's leading price comparison website business. It employs more than 600 people at its headquarters on St David's Business Park, Ewloe. Avox, a majority-owned subsidiary majority-owned subsidiary A firm in which more than 50% of outstanding voting stock is owned by the parent company. of Deutsche Borse Group, validates and maintains business entity reference data. Mr Morgan said: "The visit provides us with a platform to promote the sector in Wales while giving industry representatives an opportunity to meet David Lewis who is a superb ambassador for Wales. "International Business Wales - our overseas trade and investment division - has linked into a number of events organised by the Lord Mayor's office in the UK and key overseas markets which have enabled them to meet and network with key companies and promote Wales. "London is the leading global financial centre but we are securing investment in Wales through second wave developments from companies and expansion projects." Wales is now home to more than 1,800 financial services companies employing in excess of 32,000 people. He added: "Wales continues to develop and grow as a financial service centre and we have one of the most competitive cost bases in the UK and also benefit from the availability of a skilled and motivated workforce. "Wales has had a number of great success stories in the financial services sector including Admiral Insurance which started with 50 people and now employs 2,500 people." david David, in the Bible David, d. c.970 B.C., king of ancient Israel (c.1010–970 B.C.), successor of Saul. The Book of First Samuel introduces him as the youngest of eight sons who is anointed king by Samuel to replace Saul, who had been deemed a failure. .r.jones@dailypost.co.uk |
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