Features

Best of British: Exporting excellence to all corners of the globe

Although New Milton-based collator manufacturer Col-Tec was officially founded in 2000, the origins of the business can be traced back to 1975. That’s when Paul Bailey’s father Mike started making...

60 seconds with Crescent Press

Founded in 1997, Crescent Press has built a reputation serving advertising agencies, creatives and print management firms across the UK. Initially a Birmingham-based litho printer, 2010 saw the...

Can print blaze a trail to close the succession gap?

The old-fashioned printer is something of an endangered species. Following the financial crisis hundreds of skilled print jobs were lost in the industry as companies consolidated or fell by the...

Concentrate on contracts to make debtors pay up

According to risk manager Atradius in its October 2018 Payment Practices Barometer, the UK has the highest proportion of overdue invoices in Europe at a staggering 48.7%. The next worst is France at...

'I think a UK firm with sales of £100m is possible'

He might have been a relative latecomer to print, but Northside Graphics managing director Gary White has certainly made up for lost time with his multi-faceted award-winning digital print business.

Calling in the cavalry

Woody Allen wrote in his screenplay for the film Annie Hall, that “those who can’t do, teach. And those who can’t teach, teach gym.” While there may be an element of truth in his thinking, there has...

Flexo widens its appeal

Back in July we looked at how advances in automation and fast drying are allowing the latest litho presses to increasingly compete what were once the USPs of digital processes: short runs and fast...

New banks take up the SME challenge

The business banking market is evolving. Once upon a time, you would take your pick from the traditional big-hitters in the sector: household names like RBS, Lloyds, Santander, HSBC and their various...

Rising star: James Taylor Printer, Bell & Bain

James is 22 and started working in the industry just over three years ago, at Glasgow book and journal printer Bell & Bain. Earlier this year he won Apprentice of the Year at Print Scotland’s annual...

Q&A: Amanda Mullins Director of sales & marketing, Battlefield Printing Group

Amanda is 52 and married to her “business partner and best friend”, with three fabulous children. Will (22) is reading medicine at Cambridge and Ruby (20) reading biology at Nottingham and Charlie...

Set up your own champions’ league

Ink is in the blood,” says Essential Print Services founder and owner Yvonne Gorman.

Best of British: Rollem plays its cards right

About half of our Best of British subjects and future candidates have surprisingly long histories. They’ve survived by adapting to the huge changes in technologies, social and economic conditions over...

"It has been a long but very enjoyable journey”

Over the summer Precision Colour Printing managing director Alex Evans announced he would be standing down from his role in February next year, after a near 40-year career at the Telford web offset...

Prospecting is worth gold to universities

At this time of year students all over the country can be seen clutching printed marketing material with university logos emblazoned all over it.