Business

Business inspection: Get a flying start in a new direction

The ability to adapt to a changing market can be vital to ongoing success, as Alphaset found.

60-seconds with: Awesome Merchandise

Awesome Merchandise started back in 2005 in founder Luke Hodson’s bedroom. “We were 19 and hoped to earn some pocket money by making pin badges. Armed with £300 and one of those Lexmark printers you...

The decline of printed inserts doesn’t tell the whole story

A new report published by the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) has measured, it claims for the first time, the combined number of printed media and third-party inserts placed in the UK.

‘I’d rather have been flying jet bombers’

Gary Arber isn’t what you would probably describe as our typical interview subject. He hasn’t bought a new press since the 1950s and you would probably struggle to get him to admit he’s passionate...

Step forward the Twitterati

To tweet or not to tweet? A question many in print are still no doubt grappling with. The most pressing question they’ll then face once they decide to take the plunge is who on earth to follow? Fellow...

Make sure you spell out your IP protection

Intellectual property, or IP, may not be your most pressing concern right now. But if you are not careful it could soon become so.

Historic Arber presses saved from the scrapyard

Five letterpress machines from the historic ‘print time capsule’ WF Arber & Co have been saved after a PrintWeek reader saw the article earlier this month.

Benson Group acquired for £100m

UK food and healthcare packaging firm Benson Group has been acquired by Graphic Packaging, 15 months after the US giant bought Contego Packaging’s UK and European food and drink carton operations.

Printers contend with floods and wild weather

Printers are among the businesses battling against floods and freak weather conditions, with some companies counting themselves lucky to escape serious damage.

Fespa offers five visitors free night's accomodation

The organisers of Fespa Digital 2014, which is being held in Munich from 20-23 May, are offering those who pre-register for the event the opportunity to win a night’s accommodation at a four-star...