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Business News Wales
25-06-2025
- Business
- Business News Wales
Mobile Data to Help Shape Decision Making in Seaside Resort
Medi Parry-Williams – founder of Making Places Work (MPW) Traders in a seaside town can benefit from data that will help shape decision-making and identify customer trends. Driven by the Welsh Government-funded Smart Towns Wales project with the backing of Rhyl Neighbourhood Board, Menter Môn conducted a study of consumer statistics in the coastal resort, using BT Active Intelligence Data to track footfall and demographic information. Delivered by High Street Data Advisor Medi Parry-Williams – founder of Making Places Work (MPW) – they focused on four sections of Rhyl: Vale Road, the town centre, the seafront and areas around the new Queen's Market on West Parade. Medi hopes retailers and independent traders will utilise the information and capitalise on opportunities to learn more about their customers. 'The data can tell a town centre where people are coming from, how long they stay, give a profile of customers and provide businesses with pivotal information,' said Medi. 'Traders in Rhyl can contact us for more advice and support, where we can drill down into the detail and tell them who is visiting and when, what their busiest days and times are and more. 'It is an important investment by Smart Towns Wales which is invaluable to smaller independent businesses, so we hope they will make the most of it, to strategise for the future and help boost the town's economy.' The data was recorded over a period of months including last December, when footfall in the town centre was at its highest each day between 11am and 3pm. The 65+ and 25-34 years old age ranges were the most represented, with the majority in the 'low income' group, which would not include retirees. International visitors on the days studied were primarily from India, Ireland, Nigeria, Malta and the Netherlands, and the high street experienced the most footfall, followed by Vale Road and the seafront. Rhyl Neighbourhood Board and Smart Towns Wales will hold a workshop as part of the developing Ein Rhyl/Our Rhyl campaign, to be held at Costigan's Co-Working Space in Bodfor Street on Thursday July 17 from 6pm-8pm. The event will bring together businesses to gauge their feedback and provide input into a £20 million regeneration strategy for Rhyl from the UK Government's Plan for Neighbourhoods programme, a 10-year vision for the town to help revitalise local areas and fight deprivation by zeroing in on three goals: thriving places, stronger communities, and taking back control. Savills Director and the Board's Strategic Advisor Nick Bennett encouraged small businesses to be proactive in attending the event and utilising data that could benefit trade. 'Retailers and small businesses are the backbone of our communities, and now more than ever, they have the opportunity to thrive by leveraging one-to-one support, attending free local events, and making the most of data-driven insights into customer behaviour and footfall,' said Nick. 'These tools not only help businesses respond to current trends but also play a vital role in strengthening the local economy. 'When we support businesses to make more informed decisions, we lay the groundwork for sustainable regeneration and long-term prosperity across our high streets, so I hope we see lots of people at the event.' To attend the free event on July 17, visit Eventbrite: Business Engagement Event / Digwyddiad Ymgysylltu Busnes Tickets, Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite For more information or to book a free one-to-one consultation, email smarttowns@ To find out more about case studies delivered by the Smart Towns Wales team, visit: Take the Our Rhyl / Ein Rhyl survey here, giving your feedback and ideas for the strategy: English: Welsh:
Business Insider
03-06-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Medical Properties Trust files automatic mixed securities shelf
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Yahoo
02-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
This year's new female Fortune 500 CEOs have one thing in common
Good morning! Taylor Swift buys back her masters, PBS sues Trump, and the 2025 Fortune 500 is here. – 55 out of 500. The 2025 Fortune 500 is out this morning—and women run 11% of companies on this year's list. Of the 500 businesses that claim spots on the ranking of the largest U.S. companies by revenue, female CEOs lead 55 of them. After two years at 10.4%, 11% is a slight increase. My colleague Nina Ajemian (who curates the second half of this newsletter each day!) has a rundown of this year's female Fortune 500 CEOs. After Karen Lynch's exit from CVS Health in October, GM is the largest Fortune 500 company, at No. 18, helmed by a female CEO—Mary Barra. As readers of this newsletter likely know, Fortune's Most Powerful Women in Business list published about two weeks ago. This is the first time the Fortune 500 and MPW list have come out around the same time, so it's worth a reminder of how these two cohorts are different. The MPW list is an editorial ranking, in which Fortune editors rely on data, and other factors like influence, to choose the 100 Most Powerful Women working in business around the globe. The Fortune 500 is U.S.-based and relies solely on numbers; only 21 of the 55 female Fortune 500 CEOs made this year's MPW list. What stands out to me about this year's Fortune 500 is a trend among new female CEOs. It's become exceedingly rare for Fortune 500 companies to choose women as outside CEO hires. All of the newly-named female Fortune 500 chiefs in the past year were promoted into their jobs—at Ulta Beauty, Principal Financial, U.S. Bancorp, Marathon Petroleum, Albertsons, S&P Global, and Freeport-McMoRan. Is that aligned with broader executive hiring trends, or are companies scared to bet on women without an internal track record? Reply to this email to tell me what you think—and read more from Nina here. Emma The Most Powerful Women Daily newsletter is Fortune's daily briefing for and about the women leading the business world. Today's edition was curated by Nina Ajemian. Subscribe here. In total, Fortune 500 companies represent two-thirds of U.S. GDP with $19.9 trillion in revenues, and they employ 31 million people worldwide. Last year, they combined to earn $1.87 trillion in profits, up 10% from last year—and a record in dollar terms. View the full list, read a longer overview of how it shook out this year, and learn more about the companies via the stories below. IBM was once the face of technological innovation, but the company has struggled to keep up with the speed of Silicon Valley. Can a bold AI strategy and a fast-moving CEO change its trajectory? Read more This year, Alphabet became the first company on the Fortune 500 to surpass $100 billion in profits. Take an inside look at which industries, and companies, earned the most profits on this year's list. Read more UnitedHealth Group abruptly brought back former CEO Stephen Hemsley in mid-May amid a wave of legal investigations and intense stock losses. How can the insurer get back on its feet? Read more Keurig Dr. Pepper CEO Tim Cofer has made Dr. Pepper cool again and brought a new generation of products to the company. Now, the little-known industry veteran has his eyes set on Coke-and-Pepsi levels of profitability. Read more NRG Energy is the top-performing stock in the S&P 500 this year, gaining 68% on the back of big acquisitions and a bet on data centers. In his own words, CEO Larry Coben explains the company's success. Read more This story was originally featured on
Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Jim Cramer on Medical Properties Trust (MPW): 'Too Much Risk'
We recently published a list of . In this article, we are going to take a look at where Medical Properties Trust, Inc. (NYSE:MPW) stands against other stocks that Jim Cramer discusses. When a caller inquired about Medical Properties Trust, Inc. (NYSE:MPW), Cramer commented: 'No, no, too much risk. I don't want you… in there. Don't be fooled. Don't, don't reach for yield 7%. No, no, no. If you need yield, just go buy Realty Income, okay.' A real estate CEO pointing to a hospital facility on a financial chart. Medical Properties Trust (NYSE:MPW) is a real estate investment trust that invests in hospital facilities through a financing model designed to support acquisitions and recapitalizations. For the first quarter, the company reported a net loss of $0.20 per share. It distributed a regular quarterly dividend of $0.08 per share in April. Lastly, the company holds approximately $14.9 billion in total assets. Overall, MPW ranks 9th on our list of stocks that Jim Cramer discusses. While we acknowledge the potential of MPW as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and have limited downside risk. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than MPW and that has 100x upside potential, check out our report about this cheapest AI stock. READ NEXT: 20 Best AI Stocks To Buy Now and 30 Best Stocks to Buy Now According to Billionaires Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at Insider Monkey. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Meet the 10 CFOs on Fortune's 2025 Most Powerful Women in business list
Good morning. Fortune has released its Most Powerful Women (MPW) list for 2025, featuring 100 businesswomen from companies around the world. The list, compiled by Fortune editors, is based on company size and health, as well as each executive's career trajectory, influence, innovation, and efforts to make business better. No. 1 is General Motors CEO Mary Barra, who is among several Fortune 500 and Fortune Global 500 CEOs represented. As strategic partners to the CEO, the role of CFOs has also evolved far beyond traditional financial stewardship and reporting. Finance chiefs are now expected to be operational leaders, business partners, and key drivers of growth and innovation. Meet the 10 CFOs on the Fortune 2025 MPW list:—, deputy chairwoman, rotating chairwoman, CFO of Huawei, No. 10 Meng Wanzhou, daughter of company founder Ren Zhengfei, is Huawei's CFO. Meng's terms as chair have coincided with the release of Huawei's new iPhone-beating smartphones. Huawei is now part of China's chip plans as Washington tries to limit China's access to foreign-made semiconductors. Nvidia now considers Huawei a 'strategic competitor.' The company reported $118 billion in revenue for 2024, close to its 2020 record. —, CFO of Meta Platforms, No. 41 At age 39, Susan Li is among the youngest finance chiefs in the Fortune 500, but she spent nearly two decades at Meta, helping guide the company to a market cap exceeding $1 trillion. Li joined Meta (then Facebook) in 2008 and became CFO in 2022 after serving as vice president of finance. Li will oversee the company's full-year 2025 capital expenditures, projected to be in the range of $64 billion to $72 billion, with a significant portion directed toward infrastructure hardware and data-center investments to support its AI efforts. —, CFO of Nvidia, No. 44 Colette Kress has led Nvidia through unprecedented demand for products like Blackwell GPUs, which power AI-related computing tasks. She joined Nvidia as CFO in 2013 after senior finance roles at Cisco and Microsoft. During Kress's tenure, Nvidia has become one of the world's most valuable companies, with its market cap reaching a high of almost $3.5 trillion and currently hovering near $3 trillion. For fiscal 2025, Nvidia posted record results, with revenue reaching $130.5 billion—more than the $60.9 billion earned the previous year. —, SVP and CFO of Alphabet and Google, No. 51 Anat Ashkenazi became CFO of Alphabet and Google in July 2024. One of her strategic priorities as finance chief of the $2 trillion company is to integrate AI within its processes to boost efficiency and productivity, with cost reductions helping to fund AI innovation. Ashkenazi will oversee Alphabet's investment of approximately $75 billion in capital expenditures in 2025. She previously had a 23-year career at Eli Lilly and Company, culminating in her appointment as CFO in 2021. Ashkenazi supported the development of groundbreaking weight loss drugs Zepbound and Mounjaro. —, EVP and CFO of Microsoft, No. 56 As Microsoft's first female finance chief, Amy Hood is tasked with ensuring a historic AI investment spree keeps the world's most valuable company a step ahead. Microsoft is set to shell out $80 billion during its current fiscal year. During her 12 years as EVP and CFO, revenue has more than tripled and is expected to hit $275 trillion this year, per Visible Alpha. —, CFO of ByteDance, No. 81 ByteDance may be the world's most important social media company—what other startup could claim to be going toe-to-toe with U.S. presidents? Amid a geopolitical battle over its TikTok unit's future in the U.S., CFO Julie Gao is keeping an eye on the Chinese startup's monster finances. A hotly anticipated IPO is likely also on Gao's mind. ByteDance is one of the planet's most valuable startups, with investors valuing it as high as $312 billion. —, CFO of Shell, No. 86 Sinead Gorman stepped into the role of CFO at Shell, Europe's largest energy company, in 2022. Since joining Shell in 1999, Gorman also served in other key finance leadership positions, including EVP of finance for Upstream. In 2024, cash flow from operations was $54.7 billion, the second highest in Shell's history. Adjusted earnings were $23.7 billion, and revenue and other income amounted to $289 billion. —, CFO of Temasek, No. 87 Png Chin Yee is chief financial officer for Temasek, Singapore's massive state investment company. Png joined Temasek in July 2011, serving in roles such as head of financial services and senior managing director for China investments. For its most recent full financial year, which ended March 2024, Temasek increased its net portfolio value to $301 billion. —, CFO of DHL Group, No. 97 A trained physicist with a master in business from INSEAD, Melanie Kreis joined the logistics specialist DHL Group in 2004. She soon made a name for herself leading the €5.5 billion acquisition of U.K. logistics firm Exel and later the phased, multi-year sale of DHL's Postbank retail lender to Deutsche Bank. Kreis was promoted to the C-suite in 2014 and two years later became CFO. Last year Kreis helped DHL outgrow rivals FedEx and UPS to become the largest by revenue, at €84 billion. —, SVP and CFO of Exxon Mobil, No. 99 Kathryn Mikells joined Exxon Mobil in 2021 as SVP and chief financial officer. She previously spent six years as CFO of London-based Diageo. Mikells is Exxon's first official CFO; before her appointment, the finance duties were shared across a range of executive roles. Mikells is the first woman to join the management committee of Exxon. For the full year 2024, Exxon Mobil reported total revenue of $349.6 billion, up 1.5% year over year. Sheryl This story was originally featured on Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
