Business Inspection

Keep an eye open for warning signs

If you have spent many years driving the same roads, you will have become familiar with them, probably to the extent that you no longer need to check road signs or maps. Once-prominent landmarks now...

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...

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.

It can pay to buy yourself bigger

It’s not exactly a common career move: to go from being a buyer for a company that imports children’s rucksacks to setting up your own print company, but this was exactly the turn that the career of...

The positive effects of being neutral

Opting to go for carbon neutrality as a corporate goal is not to be taken lightly, says BrunelPrint commercial print director John Tugman. There is nothing neutral about such a move, demanding a...

Space exploration provides a home for growing firm

Extreme sports enthusiast Stuart Maclaren is a self-declared adrenaline junkie. The managing director of Your Print Partner (YPP), a large-format digital print specialist, is an avid snowboarder and...

Makeover puts Monster in a starring role

Hollywood Monster had a lot to live up to including its name. The signage and graphics company recently underwent a monster makeover with a rebrand. “Rebranding – extensive or otherwise – is not...

Fishing a fresh opportunity from stormy waters

There was nothing pretty about the finish when floods all but annihilated Celloglas’ Leeds premises and every scrap of machinery in it. A lesser business might have succumbed, but multi-site Celloglas...

Spend smart and enhance your portfolio

Oriel Printing Company had high hopes for its new print-enhancement service offering UV-based polymer varnishing and spot foiling. It was to be, according to the business, the first trade Scodix...

Find growth in a shrinking marketplace

It doesn’t look good. Cheque volumes in the UK have dropped from 4 billion in 1990 to around the 600-million mark today.