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Extended deliveries
It might have transformed the print industry, but technology hasnt necessarily done prints craft-rooted skill-set too many favours. Right first time, and on time production and delivery is now the...
Talking strategies for growth
In May, Printing World held a round-table event, bringing together ten leading industry lights to discussthe key factors necessary for successful business development. The round-table drew on the...
Print on the fast track
Five years from now, how will a typical print order be placed? Will it entail caffeine-fuelled sales teams rushing up and down the country, crunching out estimates? Will orders be channelled through...
Packing in the nicotine habit
A habit first acquired by many Brits behind the bike-sheds is rapidly back-pedalling there. Light up a fag in a pub, restaurant, office or even the company car, and itll now cost a lot more than the 5...
Win-win working
There is nothing pretentious about HSW Print. The 6m-turnover general commercial printer is reckoned by its managing directors, Malcolm and David Hackman, to be a common-or-garden, bog-standard...
Success through the clients view
Condoms, diet foods and drugs are just three of the items stored in the Lick warehouse. The West Yorkshire-based direct mail firm has expanded its business to include a selection of innovative...
Touching the senses
When car manufacturer Volvo launched its new C30 model it wanted to create a marketing campaign that was memorable and impactful. The main thrust of the promotion would ask potential customers whether...
Pimp my press
As printers, we all rely to some extent on our equipment manufacturers research and development teams for our costs savings, quality enhancements and growing profits. Sure, we can sell better, we can...
Rebranding a media giant
The battle between Richard Bransons Virgin Media and Rupert Murdochs Sky was undoubtedly the biggest media story of the year so far. For weeks, Sky and Virgin locked horns in a battle over channel...
Reel cost benefits
Spiralling paper prices have forced many printers to find new ways to cut costs in their supply chain and, with the web printers muscling in its sheetfed work, Banbury-based Stones the Printers is no...
Preserving our prized works
The metre-thick walls and reinforced windows are bomb proof. There are quarantine rooms fitted with low-oxygen chambers and freezers to ensure nothing potentially hazardous enters the building. The...
Security specialist bucks the trend as it builds its empire both home and away
The past 18 months have been tough, says Martin Ruda, managing director of The Tall Group. And yet, despite his comment, structural, acquisitive and organic growth are all on the cards for the...
End of the line for timetables
Following the final print run of railway timetables, Karen Charlesworth writes an epitaph for the 150-year-old national icon and latest victim of the internet
No smoking
If youre reading this from the comfort of your office having just lit up a Woodbine, youre probably one of the dwindling band of people making the most out of every puff, because as of next month you...
Stress in the workplace
In 1983, Time magazine declared stress to be the epidemic of the Eighties. Two decades later it is clear this epidemic is getting worse. Indeed, stress may now be the single largest issue facing...