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Overmatter: You’re fired!
Overmatter loves The Apprentice, and is especially delighted when a task for the various hapless/egotistical contestants involves print in some form – the measurement mix-up involving a printed flag...
Q&A: Nick Hand, director, The Letterpress Collective
Nick trained as a typographer and says he has loved type, ink and paper ever since. He recently completed an epic cycle ride from Bristol to Mainz in Germany on ‘the printing bike’, carrying an Adana...
KBA bolsters sales team with new hire
KBA (UK) has appointed Mark Francis as area sales manager for Wales, the Midlands and the North West regions.
Former Cumbrian News Group technical director Peter Graham Simpson dies
Peter Graham Simpson, the former technical director of Cumbrian News Group, has passed away aged 68.
VCG Group chief executive leaves company
VCG Group chief executive Mick Tooley has left the design and retail packaging specialist after 25 years of service.
Vpress appoints Kevin Tyler to business development role
Vpress has appointed Kevin Tyler, former head of UK sales at rival web-to-print software developer RedTie, to the role of business development manager.
MBA Group appoints new independent non-executive director
Multi-channel communications business MBA Group has appointed Alan Charnley as its first independent non-executive director.
Web’s decline has a way to go yet
It’s a depressing list, and a depressingly long one. The list (below) featuring a roll-call of more than 25 web offset printers that have closed since the year 2000 includes some of the industry’s...
Q&A: Darren Lyall, mailing operations manager, GI Solutions
Hats off to Darren who has become the first student to complete the BPIF’s graduate management programme. Apart from a six-week stint doing something dull in another industry, Darren has been in print...
Make time for more flexible personnel
Flexibility is great, right? Fantastic if you’re trying out yoga. But only up to a point. It would be a bad thing if you were so bendy you tied yourself up in knots. While conversely, complete...