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GPT signs Esko agreement, appoints new general manager

Wide-format distributor Graphic Printing Technologies (GPT) has signed an agreement with Esko Graphics UK to sell its cutting and software products.

Drupa launches global trend surveys

Messe Dusseldorf has commissioned a series of global trend reports to be published in the run up to Drupa 2016.

60 seconds with: Central Colour

Central Colour was set up in 1996, and was acquired in an MBO by directors Andy Baxter, Richard Limer and David Fortune nine years ago. Between them the trio have racked up a whopping 75 years’...

New MD for Arctic Paper UK

Rob Slowe has been appointed to the position of managing director of Arctic Paper UK.

Gender imbalance is costing the industry and the country

Women need work and work needs women, concludes a report from a government-backed industry group that coincides with a new print initiative prompted by the same sentiment.

UK apprenticeships set for shake-up

Last month, the National Apprenticeship Service announced that up to 20,000 apprenticeships were available on its system, while the latest statistics from the Department for Business, Innovation and...

All Print Supplies appoints Peter Miles to digital textile division

Slough-based All Print Supplies (APS) has appointed Peter Miles as head of its newly created digital textile division.

Buyers share their print perspectives

You don't often get a group of print buyers from a range of disciplines together in the same room, but that's exactly what happened after the judging session for the PrintWeek Awards quality...

Closing sales is not about performing hat tricks

"How many people spent an hour last week practising sales?" I am sat in an introductory session for training organisation Franklin's Covey's new sales course, and co-practice leader Craig...

Can people really be taught the tricks of the sales trade?

It's 11am on a Friday morning, and I'm attempting to sell a suitcase. Have I fallen on particularly hard times as a hack and decided to write off all future holiday plans? Has PrintWeek decided it's...