Profile
60 seconds with Showcase Creative
After working in graphic design for a number of years Andy Wreakes and brothers Jack and Paul Batey (left to right in picture) spotted a gap in the market for short-run presentation folders. In 2013...
Q&A: Nigel Thorpe Sales executive, Colourprint Norwich
Nigel started in the industry aged just 16 and is still in it 41 years later. And he has plans to be around for a bit longer still. He used to be something of a football player and is now a season...
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...
60 seconds with RNB Group
Bob Rhodes and Ryan Metcalf joined forces to set up RNB Group nine years ago. The firm’s services span data processing, digital printing, laser printing, inkjetting, hand fulfilment, machine enclosing...
60 seconds with Brio Design & Print Management
Managing director Tim Vernon began Brio after winning a contract to design, print and distribute a trade magazine for the direct selling Industry, which resulted in something of a specialism in the...
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...
60 seconds with Point Control
Lancashire-based perfect and PUR binding specialist Point Control began life 18 years ago when founding directors Richard Berwick, Andrew Cavannagh and Shaun Gill decided they wanted to work for...
Q&A: Francis Atterbury Partner, Hurtwood Press
Francis was, literally, born into the industry. Having swerved a potential career in house sales, he has worked in print for over 35 years and now heads up print and book production consultancy...
60 seconds with Ellison Printing
Ellison Printing was established in 1971 by Fred and Hazel Ellison. Fred is a time-served master printer and self employment was a natural progression. Their daughter Jane has been involved “since...
Q&A: Jameson Smith, founder and director, Assembly Direct Mail
Jameson, 42, has been in the print business for 24 years. Since 2004 he has built Colchester-based Assembly Direct Mail up to provide a range of services including litho/digital printing and...