Small planet. What goes around comes around. Be nice to people on your way up, you will see them again on the way down... These and other similar phrases crossed my mind upon reading PrintWeek's story about Litho Supplies teaming with Danwood for digital print kit sales.
Danwood Group's graphics and production systems division is of course run by Gerry Mulvaney, the former Litho Supplies joint managing director who sensationally quit the then-plc in August 2004 after a board level fall-out over future strategy. Self-confessed print anorak that I am, I will never forget the adrenalin rush in the PrintWeek office upon receiving the stock exchange announcement (tactically released at 5.01pm on a Friday - and Friday 13th no less) that announced the abrupt departures of Mulvaney and his fellow joint MD Terry Cooper.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I firmly believe that if Mulvaney and other Litho management schooled in the John Byford way of doing things had still been at the business, it would not have ended up going bust in such spectacularly disastrous style in December 2009.
Meanwhile, the rehabilitation of the 'new' Litho Supplies, under its new owner Agfa, continues. And now Eddie Williams is reunited in business with his old boss Gerry. What goes around comes around, indeed.
