Business
Setting out a plan for long-term viability
Jason Short jetted off to Barcelona last week. For a man who went a long way, he’s come a long way. The managing director of Qualvis Print & Packaging was in the cosmopolitan capital of Catalonia for...
Former Polestar book site calls in administrators
Wheatons Exeter, the former Polestar book printing facility, has fallen into administration just under a year after it was bought in an MBO following the collapse of Polestar.
PM meets with printers on the campaign trail
Prime Minister Theresa May has made high-profile visits to two printing companies in the space of a week.
Legal team changes at BPIF
The BPIF has appointed a new head of BPIF Legal after Anne Copley announced her intention to retire at the end of the month.
‘If your name is not on the list, you’re not coming in’
Back in 2005, panic ensued at Bloomsbury Publishing when something purporting to be the sixth Harry Potter book appeared to have been leaked online. It was actually found to be a fake – but it...
Make friends in profitable markets
Plastic Card Services (PCS) recently teed up another overseas contract, a three-year deal with one of Scandinavia’s biggest supermarkets, Coop Denmark.
Equity investment: a capital idea for growing businesses
What do Adare, Walstead Group, Hobs Reprographics, Coveris, YM Group, Pureprint, Thames Card Technology, Writtle Holdings and Henry Stone have in common?
Turn your specialist subject into a fruitful proposition
All printers are constantly on the lookout for an edge – that little bit of something that lifts them clear of their competition. One way they can achieve this is by targeting a specific niche market....
Ad spend is up but print lags behind
Spending in the UK printed advertising market suffered in the year the nation voted to leave the EU, according to the latest independent data, but it also suggests a recovery in the rate of decline is...
Litho remains resilient in the face of ongoing digital growth
When Benny Landa presented the first Indigo press at Ipex 1993, commercial colour digital printing as we know it was born and all sorts of predictions were quickly made about the impact digital would...