Cardiff is the capital of Wales and the largest city in Wales. Cardiff is the commercial hub, the center for most most national cultural and sporting institutions and the location of the National Assembly for Wales. The population of the city of Cardiff is 330,000. The wider metropolitan area of Cardiff has a population of over 1 million. Over 14 million people visit Cardiff every year.

Cardiff was made a city in 1905. It was made a capital of Wales in 1955. Since the 1990's Cardiff has seen major investment. Cardiff Bay is Europe's largest waterfront development. Cardiff Bay contains the new Welsh Assembly and Wales Millennium Center buildings. The city center has also seen significant investment. Cardiff has been recently named as the sixth best shopping destination in the UK. Major international sporting venues in Cardiff include the Millennium Stadium, SWALEC Stadium, Cardiff City Stadium and the Cardiff International Pool in Cardiff Bay. 

Cardiff is the principal finance and business centre in Wales. In recent years Cardiff has been placed seventh overall in the top 50 European cities in the Cities of the Future list and also ranked seventh in terms of attracting Foreign Direct Investment.  Companies such as Legal and General , Admiral Insurance , HBOS, Zurich, ING Direct, The AA, Principality Building Society, 118118, British Gas, Brains, SWALEC Energy and BT all have larger headquarters in the city.

BBC Wales, S4C and ITV Wales all have studios in Cardiff. In fact Cardiff is the home of the UK's largest film, TV and multimedia sector outside of UK. The BBC is building new new studios in Cardiff Bay to film dramas such as Doctor Who.

The new St David's Centre was completed in 2009 which has resulted in providing a total of 1.4 million square feet of shopping space. St David's Shopping Centre won the International Shopping Centre of the year award this year. According to a recent poll Cardiff is in the top five best cities in the UK for shopping.

Cardiff has many landmark buildings. There are many new buildings in and around the city. However there are many famous historic buildings such as Cardiff Castle and the National Museum and Gallery of Wales. A large number of concerts are held in the Cardiff. The larger ones are held in the Cardiff International Arena, St David's Hall and Millennium Stadium.

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About Cardiff Business Online

Cardiff Business Online is an online directory with a difference. After investigating the many online directories around the world we found that they all suffer from a number of flaws. When businesses join a national online directory their profile is usually lost in thousands and sometimes millions of profiles. Businesses pay to join a directory but as their business evolves and grows this is not reflected in their online profile. Their profile is usually changed infrequently. Online directories on the whole don't usual make the profiles very dynamic. In other words they don't use methods to promote the businesses profile regularly. The profiles are static and not dynamic. The reason a company wants to have an online profile on a directory is part of it's strategy to increase it's online presence. These profiles should be highlighted regularly in order for more people to read the profiles and in turn go to the business website or visit the business premises. 

Through networking and working with businesses in Cardiff last year I gained feedback that businesses in Cardiff were constantly looking for ways of getting more footfall to their traditional and online businesses. We want to help local people to find businesses they can trust in the Cardiff area. We also also want to help promote local businesses so more people know about them and they get more customers! There are many businesses in the Cardiff area who have fantastic products and services. When you join Cardiff Business Online you will get an enhanced profile. You will have a whole web page within the online directory. This will include all your contact details, full page written about you and your business, opportunity to add pictures and a link to a video. We don't stop there. As your business evolves you can contact us with new information and we will change your profile accordingly on a regular basis. The profiles will not be static but dynamic. We will promote your profile offline and online. We will use social media tools such as twitter to highlight your profile to the local community regularly. We will work with you to design and promote vouchers to the local community to help increasing traffic to your business but also as a means of you thanking the public for their continued loyalty and support to your brand.