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GPT expands product line and sales team

GPT has extended its media product line and boosted its sales team as part of a growth drive based on increasing consumables sales.

Industry pays tribute to Felix Dennis

Printing industry suppliers and colleagues have paid tribute to publishing legend Felix Dennis, who has died aged 67.

Swan boss returns to print after a decade

Former Swan Packaging managing director Bill Stillman has returned to the industry full-time, joining forces with Milan-based takeaway packaging manufacturer Liner Italia as its UK sales and marketing...

I-Sub targets hardware sales boost with new hire

Wide-format print kit supplier I-Sub Digital has hired Sharon Redhead as its new business development manager.

60-seconds with Octink

The firm was founded in 1962 as Allsignsgroup, supplying signage to the oil industry before developing a specialism in the construction sector. A re-brand to Octink in 2009, using the image of an...

Interview: 'The market is what it is and that’s what we plan for’

Next month, Pensord managing director Darren Coxon will be celebrating the fourth anniversary of the MBO he led with operations director Karl Gater at the 148-staff Welsh magazine printer.

Q&A: Phil Wright, managing director, Paramount Labels & Tags

Phil has spent all his working life in print, and got into label printing 21 years ago. In 2008 he set up Cannock-based trade label printing specialist Paramount Labels with a friend, now sadly no...

Pureprint targets growth with BT&D sales hires

Pureprint is targeting growth in its colour book and corporate publishing print operation after setting up a new sales office in Frome, Somerset, manned by a senior team from collapsed book printer...

Put your business into gear

In a world of highly successful business role models, it may seem odd to suggest printers look to a hapless character from a now-ended BBC comedy series for advice.

Print buyers seek out their perfect partners

“It’s a lot like online dating,” said Kathy Sletten, print manager at Estée Lauder, at a recent ‘An Audience with the Print Buyers’ talk. She was referring, slightly bizarrely you might think, to the...