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Marketing Campaign of the Year: Gemini Print Group

“That’s what marketing is all about,” reckoned the judges. “Fantastic ROI that delivers on the brief.” The Shoreham-by-Sea company wanted to increase the digital printing side of its business by £1m...

Environmental Company of the Year: Nationwide Print

Much changes in this ever-evolving category and Nationwide Print, in St Austell, Cornwall, is pioneering many of those changes. Nationwide has gone from powering its presses with renewable energy and...

Luxury Packaging Printer of the Year: Boss Print

Boss by name, boss by nature: the west London printer lays on the luxury like no other, notching up another impressive performance in this category. “Loved some of the materials choices, and simply...

High-volume Magazine Printer of the Year: Wyndeham Roche

This reconfigured category was won for the first time last year by this year’s winner. Once again Wyndeham Roche produced “a web offset printing masterclass”, according to the judges. Boat...

Brochure Printer of the Year: Pureprint Group

If a picture paints a thousand words, then the highest-quality brochure must speak volumes - the production values on show here are among the highest in print, said the judges.

Direct Mail Printer of the Year: Geoff Neal Group

Our judges have a beef about this one: “All too often direct mail is slurred with the ‘junk mail’ label, yet it can show the true marketing potential of print.” Geoff Neal Group proved it with “a...

Michael Passmore passes away

Michael Passmore, former managing director and chairman of Alabaster Passmore & Sons, has passed away.

60 seconds with… Mostly Flat

Graphic designer and artist printmaker Dulcie Fulton started Mostly Flat in 2013 after she took a letterpress class that reminded her how much she loved the process.

Overmatter: tit for tat

The Apprentice is back, and Overmatter is of course glued to the television of a Wednesday evening, awaiting the latest puffed up pronouncements from this year’s array of egotistical maniacs.

Q&A: Marie Gilmour, senior account manager, J Thomson Colour Printers

Marie studied Psychology and French at Glasgow University and graduated with a BSc in 1995. After teaching English in France for a year she changed direction, joined J Thomson Colour Printers and has...