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New year predictions: Mike Malpas, Hampton Printing
While this MD’s highlight of the past decade was buying the award-winning business, looking into the 2020s his next big challenge is getting his work/life balance sorted.

New year predictions: Charles Jarrold, BPIF
Standing still will be the biggest threat to printers in the next decade, according to the Feds CEO, but for those willing to take calculated risks, the future will be bright.

New year predictions: Neil Lovell, The Printing Charity
As the CEO of the industry’s charity, Lovell’s lowlight for the past decade was the lack of kindness in society, but he believes that will change for the better and so will print’s prospects if we...

New year predictions: Koli Pickersgill, Immediate Media
Immediate’s production and repro director believes that printers should be evangelical about the power of print.

New year predictions: Diana Levy, Royal Horticultural Society
RHS print and production services manager Levy believes that printers and buyers should stop viewing each other with suspicion if they really want to succeed.

Tributes paid to George Silverman
Retired industry stalwart and ‘envelope guru’ George Silverman has died aged 72.

Q&A: Derek Maskell, sales consultant, Interket
Derek is bowing out and retires this month after more than 50 years in the industry. He’s 73 and has been in print-related employment since 1966. He’s married to Donna with two children and three...

60 seconds with Windles Group
Bruce Podmore, Windles founder and managing director, started out printing in a shed in Aylesbury. Originally printing on a two-unit machine, his business grew quickly and in 1984 he joined forces...

Rising star: Luke Salisbury, account manager, Emmerson Press
Luke is 21 and joined Kenilworth-based Emmerson Press just over four years ago as an apprentice.

Voting open for Printweek Power 100
Voting is now open for Printweek readers to have their say on who are the industry's leading lights in our annual Power 100 poll and potentially win a £100 John Lewis voucher.