If there's any part of the UK print industry that's intact at the moment, it's the B3 sector. Smaller, more flexible, and therefore more able to react to tough trading conditions, B3 printers are...

Scotsmen are rumoured to possess no natural love for spending, but Glaswegian Stuart Mason has cause to dispute this longstanding myth. Over the past 15 years, as founder and managing director of...

Private equity (PE) is drying up. That was the message from the keynote speech at the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants annual conference in November: top PE lender Alchemy Partners...

Scarborough isnt at the end of the universe, but its pretty close, jokes Pindar group marketing director David Jesson. But his quip is a respectful one: over the past 130-odd years, as one of the...

Clinic topics this month: Kevin Purdy on environmentally sound ink; Paul Sherfield on ISO and Fogra standards; and Karen Charlesworth on short-run bookbinding

For a man whose mission in life is to sell as much print as he can, Jason Walker has a perverse attitude to the actual act of selling: the managing director of Macclesfield-based Everydayprint...

If sheetfed printers have a hard time stepping up from B3 into the commercially competitive world of B2, at least the cost of the press is in their favour. But moving up into B1 remains a prohibitive...

The UKs book printing sector is turning the page on a dramatic new chapter of change. The entire supply chain has had to shift its outlook to follow the demands of the ultimate customer: the...

There is a huge difference between selling offset and selling digital and it still presents tricky challenges to sales staff, managing directors and balance sheets. As a result, UK printers who...