Business Inspection

Grow a greener business from the ground up

After his vegetarian breakfast Gary Toomey mounts his bicycle and pedals the seven miles to his business. He’s new to this game. Not healthy, meat-free living, but launching a web-to-print firm.

The big move: investing for ongoing growth

Curtis may not be looking to build an empire, but it recognised when the time was right to step up to the next level.

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...

Skills still make an impression

It’s apt that halfway through his interview with PrintWeek Patrick Roe spots an old Field-Marshall tractor trundling past his office window. Once a farm staple in the 1940s, these days such machines...

Set out to achieve a high standard

It is one of the most widely used quality standards across the world and can not only help you increase business efficiency but boost customer satisfaction and help your company eke out competitive...

Recruiting the right talent for future growth

Last month Thames Card Technology (TCT) launched the UK’s first contactless loyalty card programme for Tesco.

How to expand into the world of web

Printers and designers we’ve spoken to tell us they feel that if they don’t offer web services they risk losing the client,” according to its website. Nettl calls itself a “bolt-on formula” offering...

Set up a portal to new worlds of opportunity

This March Octink successfully targeted a host of the UK’s biggest-name construction companies with a new web-to-print service.

Youthful drive can still conquer print

This issue’s interview features Aron Priest, who, along with business partner Andy Smith, is co-founder of Solopress, which, until very recently was one of the UK’s largest, independent online print...

How to score top marks in your chosen market

Becoming an academy school means freedom from local governance, which is both exciting and challenging. And it’s why Empine Print went back to school in order to learn how to best serve this changing...