Features

'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.

HMRC always gets its share
It’s bad enough that failed firms leave a wake of upset and financially hurt creditors. But when the taxman steams in, takes preference over unsecured creditors, saving little for anyone else, it can...

Packed with power
London’s historic Stationers’ Hall will once again host the Power of Print seminar, a one-day event that highlights the potency of print’s unique characteristics and is targeted at professionals...

Any which way but lose?
In spite of the latest zany political shenanigans – Boris threatening to break the law (or actually breaking the law), opposition MPs sitting on Speaker John Bercow in an attempt to, physically,...

Building a viable business out of a Bedroom Project
When Ed Snelson ran a printed clothing business as part of a year-long Young Enterprise project at school it sparked the beginnings of an idea that years later would evolve to see the now 28-year old...