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60 seconds with: The Marstan Press

This is a highly appropriate 60 seconds with because on 1 October The Marstan Press started its 60th year in business. The firm started off in letterpress, before moving to litho and then adding...

Employee absence down in paper and printing

The average number of days lost per year for each employee in the paper and printing industry has fallen for the second year in a row, according to the latest annual Absence Management survey from the...

Heidelberg UK's Mark Hogan promoted to global sales role

Heidelberg UK marketing director Mark Hogan has been promoted to head up worldwide sales of finishing equipment for the manufacturer in a newly-created role.

Business inspection: Alternative strategies for sales success

A sales team might seem like an essential part of any business, but that's not always true

Interview: 'Whatever it takes to do the job well'

There probably aren't many people that would contemplate starting a business in the print industry at 21, but that's exactly what First 4 Print Finishing managing director David Nestor did. And, as if...

Results bear out a radical restructure

It is 2009 and St Ives' chief executive Patrick Martell, who joined the group as an apprentice in 1980, is giving his first major interview since taking the reins in April of the worst year in the...

Star product: Heidelberg Stitchmaster ST 500

The latest Stitchmaster has a range of new features and upgrades to improve performance.

Me & my: Foliant Gemini C 400S

Talk of impressive feats of engineering are not uncommon at Cranfield University. The Bedfordshire institution is home, after all, to one of the top schools of science and engineering in the country,...

Unusual moves as major groups trade sales directors

Two of the UK's biggest printers have their sales director on gardening leave due to an unusual incidence of simultaneous recruitment activity.