Business

Gray: "For the first time we really are a team"

Business Inspection: Make a strong recovery

In the late noughties, Mark Gray was running a profitable Manchester print business producing educational material, but with the market flagging due to new technological capabilities in schools, Gray...

Steele: Measures must take company values and culture into account

20 lessons learned during lockdown for prospering amid the new normal

While some print firms were shuttered during lockdown, others have kept going throughout. Dr Adrian Steele, managing director at Staffordshire-based Mercian Labels shares some of the changed workplace...

Covid crisis should stimulate a better deal for UK makers

Just as the coronavirus situation has kept us all apart, it’s also served to bring people and organisations together.

The business hopes to extend the solar panels to its new unit next door

Aztec rises to Covid challenges and invests for growth

Aztec Label is set to invest a significant six-figure sum in an additional factory unit to boost its footprint by 25% as part of an ambitious post-Covid growth plan.

The firm will invest in it's UK manufacturing facility

UK issues £90m facemask contract

German-headquartered medical and safety technology business Dräger has won a €100m (£89.6m) contract from the UK government for facemasks and will expand its UK facility as a result.

WTTB's automated system allows multiple addresses to be added at the point of order

WTTB claims online automated split delivery first

Where The Trade Buys has laid claim to a UK first by automating split deliveries, enabling its customers to more closely mirror commercial print services while simultaneously benefiting from bulk...

Sunak: plan intends to support, create and protect jobs

Sunak's summer splurge: reaction

There has been a mixed reaction to chancellor Rishi Sunak’s £30bn package of additional measures intended to stave off a spike in unemployment, boost training and provide a fillip to the hospitality...

This year's PoP event will be hosted online

Power of Print goes online

This year’s annual Power of Print seminar is to embrace the power of digital and be hosted online to ensure it’s not impacted by the Coronavirus restrictions.

Atkinson: We want to do the right thing

Forecast beating Macfarlane to repay furlough cash

Macfarlane Group has promised to repay the furlough cash it has received from the government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme after reporting that lockdown and the Covid crisis hadn’t impacted sales...

Jarrold: "commercial print has been affected significantly"

BPIF: slow pace of recovery has implications for print

BPIF chief executive Charles Jarrold has detailed current industry sentiment across the regions as businesses reach ‘stage three’ of the Covid crisis.