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Security printer jailed
Smith & Ouzman sales and marketing director Nick Smith has been sentenced to three years in jail following an SFO investigation into corrupt payments made by the company.

Sankey steps up at Artisan
Artisan Press has confirmed the details of its new management structure, alongside a new three-year strategy to take the business forward.

What’s the secret behind keeping it in the family?
The UK economy is underpinned by family businesses. According to the Forum of Private Business, around 3m of the country’s 4.6m SMEs are run by families and these businesses contribute around 31% of...

Q&A: Dave Turnbull, operations director, L&S Printing
Dave has spent 25 years – more than half his lifetime – in print. He’s married with two children and has always lived on or near the beach, and tries to make the most of this luxury whenever possible....

60 seconds with LeftMedia
After years of working as sole traders, LeftMedia was established in 2014, when Mitchel White joined forces with fellow creative Matt Simpson to combine their design and print offerings, which they...

Overmatter: Skype silliness
Being able to laugh at yourself is a key life skill, and Overmatter is happy to report that some of the industry’s big bosses are able to do just that.

Business inspection: Stakeholder staff ensure benefits for everyone
Eating fish and chips on a Saturday afternoon while on holiday might seem like a rather unlikely time to come up with a business brainwave, but for Colchester Print Group managing director Philip...

HRH delivers networking masterclass
Without wishing to name drop, ahem, last week I was lucky enough to meet Prince Charles when he visited the St Bride Foundation.

Interview: ‘Always build your business around what clients want’
Taking on one failed print business and converting it into a £38m-turnover firm that you then sell to a US corporate could be considered lucky. If you then go on to do it a second time, and make an...

Celebrating an exceptional career
It seems as if Steve Wehrle was destined to work for the Radio Times. His father worked for the corporation at various outposts, and his mother was a BBC secretary.