Features

They say that a business is only ever as good as its last sale. While that may be true, the reality is that a business is really only ever as good as the people it employs.

Ben is 38 and, having got into corrugated at a formative age, has already racked up 22 years in the industry. He’s married with two boys and something of a martial artist in his spare time.

Harlow Printing Works (Northern) was established in 1947 by the grandfather of current managing director Richard Walker, and Richard’s father changed the name to Harlow Printing in 1977.

Print is all about dissemination of information. From Gutenberg to where we are now, printers have always handled sensitive information.

Ordinarily, having your products reduce your customers to tears is not a good thing.

Edale is one of the last companies to design and build conventional printing presses on British soil. It enjoys a healthy international market for its modern flexo presses for label, flexible...

While most of us are still recovering from Christmas 2018, for Seth and the team at Woodmansterne planning is already well underway for the firm’s Christmas 2019 range of fine art cards and Advent...

Printers are facing a perfect storm with rising job numbers, shrinking average order values, a less clear-cut distinction between the most appropriate production methods and the ever-present spectre...

Graham Hodson (aka Curly) started what was then called Graham Hodson Design in 1974 from his garden shed.

Gently does it,” says Dean Latchford – a good adage when the company you work for thinks of consolidating different strands of business by merging into one identity.

By their very nature special event and occasion printing jobs don’t crop up on a regular basis. Often this type of work is also incredibly challenging, with jobs passing through multiple individuals...

Employees not only form the core of a business, they are also one of the biggest fixed costs it will have. With access to the innermost corporate secrets and the ability to make or break a firm,...

Bigger Printing was set up in 2000, by MD Sebastian Stanley (pictured right with marketing and operations manager David Bowen). Originally selling print consumables, the company grew into The Bigger...

“Too old to rock and roll too young to die!” Graham hit 60 this year and retires on 21 December after 41 years in the industry. Retirement will mean spending time at home with his wife of 38 years,...

Heanor in Derbyshire is home to Autobond, a 40-year-old family-run company that specialises in high-speed sheet laminators with heavy-duty construction and the latest electronics.