Managing Director's Chat with an Au Pair Leads to Role As Romanian Honorary Consul

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A meeting with a friend's au pair has resulted in a businessman being appointed Romania's honorary consul in Wales. Next week Clive Williams, joint managing director of the Hirwaun-based Crownford Group, will be officially inaugurated in a ceremony at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff. Mr Williams, who began his career as a solicitor but soon joined his brother Brad after Crownford was established in 1988, established an offshoot of the consultancy group in a remote northern region of Romania late last year.

He said, "It is very strange how this came about. A couple of years ago, all I knew about Romania was that it was where Dracula and the Cheeky Girls came from.

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Managing Director's Chat with an Au Pair Leads to Role As Romanian Honorary Consul

"Then I got into conversation with the au pair who was working for one of our friends. She is from Iasi in north-eastern Romania, and said there would be a good openi...

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