Profile

After a short and (he says) less than glittering career in marketing, Chris got into print buying by accident and ended up doing it for 28 years.

Tim’s claim to fame is that he saved his Notts business using Facebook and the above business name. It went viral and he ended up on TV in two countries. “I had my 15 minutes of fame for being broke,”...

Hedgerow Print was founded in 1989 by John Leach and was based in the Old Ambrosia Rice Pudding factory in Mid Devon. Current managing director Gary Radford joined in 1994 as an apprentice printer and...

Bridson & Horrox started in 1933, it’s a family-owned company and Darren Horrox is the third-generation owner. During the early days it was just a winter business as the owner Marshall Bridson had a...

Martin officially ‘retired’ from First 4 at the end of October, but we hear he’ll still do about four months a year at the Blackburn company, which recently carried off PrintWeek’s SME Company of the...

Nicky has worked in the industry for 11 years, but is relatively new to Hatfield-based Datum having joined the firm five months ago. She has, however, known managing partners Scott Pearce and Mark...

Quantum was formed in 2005 from the combination of EW Box Co and Holmes Printers. The company thrived under its management, and this culminated in an MBO in 2014 that saw Giles Foden (sales director...

Gary has worked in the industry for getting on for 30 years, having quickly decided that being a “chippy’s mate” didn’t offer the career prospects, or warm office, that he aspired to.

PCL was formed as Professional Communications Ltd in 1972 as a typesetter, before moving into repro in the 1990s.

Chris is the first recipient of the Kathy Woodward Award for Learning. He’s 32 and has been in print for 14 years, progressing from a time-served printing apprentice to his current role.