Interview
‘I only want to be in a business that’s about growth’
Quite how a £42.5m business with around 350 staff can be a well-kept secret might not be immediately clear, but that’s exactly how Anton chief executive Malcolm Lane-Ley describes the Essex-based...
'People are returning to print because it achieves results’
As one of the biggest brand-side print spenders in the UK, Sky’s head of print management Mark Cruise in many ways bears a heavy responsibility on his shoulders.
Interview: ‘We should work together to create new customers’
Not only is he the driving force behind Precision Printing the circa 120-staff, £20m-turnover group that is one of the UK’s leading exponents of mass customisation, he’s also a BPIF board member and...
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...
‘My aim is always to find the next scalable business’
Tony Rafferty is chief executive of the rarest of beasts: a print PLC. However, while those three letters usually denote a faceless corporate behemoth, Grafenia is far from any of those things.
Interview: ‘We’ve got a good business, we do a bloody good job’
By his own admission, there have been some ups and downs over the 35 years Stephens & George managing director Andrew Jones has worked at the family firm.
Interview: ‘Print is changing fast and you have to move forward’
PrintWeek’s SME of the Year, Nationwide Print, is proof positive that small can indeed be beautiful.
Interview: ‘Print is having a real renaissance with young people’
It’s safe to say that Pureprint chief executive Mark Handford likes to run his business at full throttle.
Interview: ‘Inserts may not be sexy, but they have massive scale’
It’s not often that that PrintWeek gets invited to media agency bashes, where the beards are short and the hair directional.
Interview: ‘A business lives or dies on cashflow, not just profit’
According to Delta Group chief executive Mike Phillips, the firm’s clients regard it as one of the industry’s best kept secrets. But with sales expected to nudge £70m in 2015 and an ambitious plan to...