A young entrepreneur whose company has a turnover of £70million is one of the many people from Wales who have been recognised in the first King's New Year's Honours list for more than 70 years.
Special honours are given to people who make outstanding contributions to their community and the country, with the New Year Honours acknowledging 1,107 people in the UK this year. They range from politicians, musicians and actors to senior diplomats at the forefront of the UK's response to the war in Ukraine and members of the England women's football team, which won Euro 2022.
Wrexham-based businessman Alex Lovén has described his MBE for services to the economy as a "huge honour" and said that it was something that had made him "very proud". It all started with a eureka moment after buying a cricket bat on eBay as a 13-year-old. Years of hard graft later and the businessman who built his firm from the ground up is now selling products across the globe.
