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The Prime Minister celebrates Wales as "wonderful country and a great part of the United Kingdom" in his St David's Day message David’s Day is a moment to celebrate a wonderful country and a great part of our United Kingdom. When I think of Wales, I think of its incredible beauty St David's Day: David Cameron's message From the beaches of the Gower to the peaks of Snowdonia, it is absolutely right that Wales has been named in the top 10 countries to visit in the world. I think of Welsh industry. Wales was the world’s first industrial nation. And today it is Wales that builds the wings for more than half of the world’s commercial aircraft Wales, that makes cells supporting half of the world’s mobile phones, and Wales, where only last week, Aston Martin announced its second manufacturing facility, as part of a £200 million investment. I think of Welsh creativity. From the founder of our most treasured public service – our free NHS – to our continu...

Birst's Cloud BI is the 'flexible, agile platform' that can keep pace with our aims, claims Zoopla's Stephen Morana Zoopla Property Group , which owns the British property website Zoopla.co.uk, has selected business intelligence provider Birst's cloud platform in a bid to bring together its sales, marketing and operations data. Birst said that its Cloud BI platform will be used to integrate data from the property group's CRM system, marketing automation, web analytics and social platforms, as well as data from across the group's online property brands.  These include Zoopla, PrimeLocation and HomesOverseas . In the process, the company hopes that it can improve its marketing campaigns by targeting the right audience more efficiently. Birst: See Your Data in a Whole New Light Morana added that Birst had been chosen to support the group's plans based on its requirements for a "flexible, agile BI platform that will keep pace wi...

Rightmove increased revenues 15 per cent to £192.1m in 2015, it announced on Friday — slightly ahead of expectations , while pre-tax profit was up 12 per cent to £137.1m. It racked up 1.3bn visits to its website in 2015, 18 per cent more than a year earlier. Rightmove also retained a healthy margin: underlying operating margin was 75.1 per cent, up from 74.6 per cent a year ago. William Packer, analyst at Exane BNP Paribas, said it was a “a strong set of numbers, especially in the context of the Agents Mutual [OnTheMarket] launch last year”. Exane BNP Paribas   are also analyst brokers for the RMV. OnTheMarket is a property portal set up by agent-run collective High Street Estate Agents’ Mutual with the aim of bringing down fees paid to list online FOR THEMSELVES . Presently Rightmove and Zoopla dominate the market and are the first port of call for many consumers. Zoopla reported on Thursday it had increased its agent members 1 per cent to 12,841 . BUT OTheMarket...