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Middleton expands with new recruits

Middleton Paper has gone on a recruitment drive, adding four former Paperlinx employees to its team to cope with growing demand following the demise of the giant merchant.

60 seconds with Pavement

Pavement was formed in February 2013 when Shea Kelly (right) and Bill Greenwood decided to build a company “we’d like to work with as clients”. The firm is continually looking at how things can be...

Q&A: Andy Wilson, managing director, PressOn

PressOn has just expanded onto a new site in Chatham, and Andy and his wife Anita have some expansion going on at home too – the couple have “three beautiful daughters and a son on the way”.

Interview: ‘Complicated and difficult is our bread and butter’

In January 2012, Rob Kelly left the cosseted surroundings of St Ives, where he was the group’s marketing director, to go it alone as a marketing consultant. However, just six months later he returned...

Nurture both personal and professional growth

James Heskett, highly respected professor emeritus at Harvard Business School, once memorably claimed that employees and managers alike look forward to performance appraisals in the same manner as...

Apex Digital Graphics relocates to new premises

Apex Digital Graphics has moved to new premises in its hometown of Hemel Hempstead.

Overmatter: charity challenge

Overmatter loves it when birthdays and weekends coincide. GF Smith paper consultant Megan Simpkins has just such a happy happening coming up, but Simpkins’ celebrations will not involve a protracted...

Q&A: Danny Narey Operations director, Adare

Danny has worked in print and mail for some 25 years. He rides a Harley Davidson Dyna Super Glide for leisure (like the one Jax rides in Sons of Anarchy, it says here). He has a grown-up daughter and...

60 seconds with Victoire Press

Victoire Press was formed in 1990 by Howard Seaber-Shinn and Tony Elliott, through an MBO of the Cambridgeshire County council print department. They moved it to Bar Hill, along with eight members of...

Putting yourself in the hot seat

An MBO may be a daunting prospect but it can be a liberating experience and can revitalise a firm’s fortunes