Welsh Companies That Have Made It Big in the World of Business

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The right commercial mortgage can allow your company to expand or build assets so that you can be the best you can be. One day your company may become as successful as these Welsh businesses:

Penderyn Distillery

An award winning malt whiskey production company that is based in the depths of the Brecon Beacons, Penderyn Distillery are set to invest one million pound this year in increasing production output and to reach the international market. The company, which was set up in 2000 as the Welsh Whiskey Company, carries on traditional Welsh distillery processes that are hundreds of years old. Penderyn is the only whisky produced in Wales.

Admiral Group

The Cardiff based motor insurance company is now one of the UK’s largest providers of car insurance. With over 6500 employees, 5000 of which are based in Wales, the company has multiplied since its humble beginnings ten years ago. It started in 1993 with 57 members of staff; the Admiral Group now turns over a revenue of £2.22 billion.

Principality Building Society

Principality is the largest building society in Wales and the sixth largest in the UK. The company has assets of £7 billion and is mutual, and therefore owned by its members, not its shareholders. Principality Building Society was established in 1860 and now has 51 branches across the UK.

Brains Brewery (S.A. Brain & Company Ltd)

Brains was founded in 1882 in Cardiff by Samuel Arthur Brain. The company now sells beers under the brands of Brain’s, Buckley’s and Hancock’s as well as owning over 270 pubs. The company sponsors the Welsh Rugby Union team and the Crusaders. Brains is also the official beer of Glamorgan Cricket and the Football Association of Wales. Brains has a large brewery in Cardiff city centre.

Brecon Carreg

A Welsh mineral water brand that sources its water from the Brecon Beacons National Park. The previous owner, Brecon Beacons Natural Waters, was established in 1978 as a cottage industry in the converted barns of a farm. The Spadel Group acquired the company in 1983 and quickly expanded the business to the popularity it has today.

Peacocks

The popular retail giant which was bought out in 2012 by The Edinburgh Woollen Mill has over 6000 employees and 600 retail outlets in 13 countries. Albert Frank Peacock established the business in 1884 as a Victorian Penny Bazaar, his son Harold moved the business to its current home in Wales in 1940 where it remains today. Peacocks are owned by the same company as the high street retailers Bonmarche and Jane Norman, and have collaborated on designs with celebrities such as model, singer, and designer Pearl Lowe.