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Alice is 22 years old and began her career in print just over three years ago. She did a Level 3 BPIF diploma in print administration and is now on a Level 5 management programme, and is also chair of...

For a sector that is frequently geared around promoting the services of other businesses, the print trade often struggles with selling itself.

It was almost off the scale. DCB Group recently scored 96% in the BPIF’s Seal of Excellence following extensive checks that culminated in not one but three seals of excellence – in health and safety,...

Jamm started in 1995, when production director Liz Shackleton decided to develop a specialist service for non-profit organisations.

It’s now exactly 20 years since Graham Harris found a better way to crease paper, although at first he wasn’t sure how to actually make it.

While certain level of stress in our lives is important just to function, it was Reverend WJ Kennedy who, in 1856, as the Inspector of Schools for Lancashire and the Isle of Man, identified that “if...

As chair of The Strategic Mailing Partnership, the board members of which are responsible for producing just under half of all UK mail delivered last year, Judith Donovan is, understandably, quite the...

Spiegl Press was founded by Peter Spiegl in the late 1950s.

A healthy bottom line isn’t everything. Another way of checking the health of your company is to study the faces of your staff, according to Baker Labels’ chief happiness officer Mandy Baker. Look...

“It’s hands down the worst thing I’ve ever done. I don’t really get stressed out, but this was a great cause of anxiety. Don’t get me wrong it was exciting too...”

With digital print having become a fixture in the industry (it hit its silver jubilee last year) you might think that as the market became established a strong secondhand market would have emerged...

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.