Business

Get your terms & conditions right

Commercial law is extremely complicated and drawing up sufficiently precise set of T&Cs is both essential and difficult. Ensure yours are right.

Ways to expand your sphere of influence

Like it or not, networking is a hugely effective way to increase your profile, and it’s no secret that it pays to make friends and influence people.

Two firms fined after workers lose fingers

Two companies have been fined for health and safety breaches after workers sustained hand injuries on their equipment.

‘Good ideas can come from anyone’

A little over 12 months after getting back into print, and almost a third of the way into his journey to double sales by 2020, the new chief executive of Hobs Group, James Duckenfield, shares his...

The only way is ethics? God forbid

It is not a common occurrence, and it’s even rarer that it catches the eye of the media, but every so often a high-profile case arises in which a customer is refused a service because it conflicts in...

Don’t fret over bad decisions, learn from them

I can’t imagine there’s a single business leader reading this who hasn’t made a dodgy decision at one time or another that they later regretted.

Moving out of a humble abode to your ‘des res’

Moving premises is the most stressful thing that most business owners will ever have to endure.

How well can UK printers fare in international markets?

As time ticks away on the Brexit clock, one of the few things we can be quite certain of is the high degree of uncertainty among businesses about a future outside the EU. Negotiations between Downing...

Take your first steps along the M&A trail

Transactional corporate finance is, in the words of printer Tim Black, a “movable feast”. Or should that be a ‘moving target’? Regulators have had a field day in recent years following the dotcom...

National treasure: printers trading on ‘brand Britain’

When was the last time you bought something that was made in Britain? For many of us that’s likely to be a tough question to answer. We’re so accustomed to a global market that we barely bother to...