Our mission
CBI Cymru/Wales helps create and sustain the conditions in which businesses in Wales can compete and prosper for the benefit of all. We are the premier lobbying organisation for businesses in Wales on national and international issues.
We work with the Welsh assembly and UK governments, international legislators and policymakers to help businesses compete effectively.
Our members benefit from our influence, a wealth of expertise, business services and events.
Find out more about what we can do for your business – whatever its size, whatever its sector.
A lot of our daily work for over a year now has been shaped by the recession.
Individual member issues and working with the Assembly Government have put us at the heart of the debate.
In October last year – in partnership with Wales TUC we formed a 7-point action plan which outlined how government should respond to the economic downturn.
The Assembly Government accepted most of the plan and it continues to underpin the government's response – a tangible example of the key difference CBI Cymru and its members can make when we work together.
We continue to work on shaping the agenda, with our members present on the Economic Summit Reference Group and the summits themselves.
The next summit, in Bangor in July, will discuss HE and FE collaboration with business.
Contact: Leighton Jenkins – assistant director, policy, on 02920 977606 for more information.
You can read the Assembly Government's Assembly Government's response here and visit Wales Office information.
At a recent finance committee meeting, CBI Cymru director David Rosser called on the Assembly Government to push forward with the M4 relief road.
The call comes on the back of the Assembly Government reprioritising their transport building programme which has resulted in a downgrading of economically valuable east-west links.
We have waited a long time for the publication of the business case for the M4 relief road, since the Assembly Government announced plans for its construction in 2004. Given the economic downturn and the downgrading of other east-west road improvements, the building of the M4 relief road is now even more important.
Recent moves to impose a 50mph limit on the whole of the M4 around Newport due to safety concerns is the first sign of the many problems to come. Predicted increases in congestion (some 30%) and regional population growth all point to the need to expand the transport network of one of the cornerstones of Wales' transport network. Read our response to the finance committee inquiry into road funding (PDF 462KB).
For more information email leighton.jenkins@cbi.org.uk
We are concerned about the Cardiff Local Development Plan, which sets out the growth of the city for decades to come.
The current programme does not fully embrace the potential for future economic growth. We will be responding to the plan, asking companies how best it could be amended to take account of the predicted upturn in the economy.
Growth predictions and housing plans lack ambition if Wales is to attract the right mix of high skilled individuals into the local economy.
On the June 30 the Environment Committee will meet at Rockwool, Bridgend to discuss the CBI Climate Change Board's report into energy efficiency.
It will also discuss our position on emerging issues from the Welsh Climate Change strategy.
For more information, contact jennifer.strong@cbi.org.uk