Business Inspection

Those images on Monday 28 December were horrifying, and remain unforgettable. Like most people, Chris Milner had been tuning into TV news channels over the Christmas period, gripped with cold...

Should a printer define itself by the equipment it uses or by its customers? Marketing theory would suggest the latter, but with the high prices and long pay-back times of presses there’s a risk you...

Hunts chief executive Timon Colegrove had an epiphany, which led to a radical realignment of the business, in particular how it relates to clients.

All this talk of there being a shortage of skills in the print and packaging industries is rubbish, according to Label Apeel managing director Amy Chambers: “It’s not that there’s a shortage – it’s a...

It was not so much a problem as the opportunity that prompted us,” says Dale Deacon, who will save his business tens of thousands of pounds every year after seizing that opportunity.

Perhaps it was meant to be. Imega Print was not even on the lookout for a press – new or secondhand – until the email arrived in managing director Ken Varnham’s inbox.

In recent years waste management has become a multibillion-pound industry. And print businesses like those in every other industry, perhaps more so than many others with its inks, chemicals, metals...

John Good, one of the UK’s largest and longest-running publishers of theatre programmes and brochures, was keen to work on its performance techniques.

Their clients are pressing all the right buttons, but that’s not enough. John Scott and Stephen Neild, who formed Mauve Print Management from a modest barn conversion more than three years ago, have...

Mimtec used to do virtually everything but print. The thermoforming specialist, based in Fareham, near Portsmouth, is just that, a specialist in the hyper-niche market of vacuum and pressure forming,...