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MBA began life in 1984 as a mailing house, operating from the home of founder and owner Bachar Aintaoui, before expanding into a factory unit. The business initially served financial institutions in...

When Adam Walker joined Precision Colour Printing (PCP) as head of operations three years ago, the company was busy and successful, but aware that its maintenance practices were not serving it as well...

Andrew has worked in and around print for 30 years, on the manufacturing side in City print, greetings cards and point-of-sale, as well as with print management companies.

Business moves quickly. Demanding customers, short deadlines, and the connected world have not only increased the pressure on printers to deliver Grade A product at the lowest price, but instantly...

Machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotics have dominated every technology conference, tradeshow and summit in the past six months.

Serious Print Group started “out of an imminent redundancy” at a company managing director Nick Henry worked for in 2009. “I got together with three other guys that worked there one Friday afternoon...

Kerry is 24 years old and has been working for Northside Graphics for almost four years. She began her time with Northside as a placement student working towards a degree in Graphic Design &...

No clutter. No pop-ups. No up-sells. No cross-sells. No information overload. Back in December web-to-print business Printed Easy went live with a new-look customer-focused website that said ‘no’ to...

So you have spent months researching a new kit purchase. You’ve read all there is to read, you have tested it, you have asked other users for their views, you have thought of every possible use and...

In the heady times immediately following the setting up of a new business, beyond the signing of contracts, few really take the time to step back and assess the new entity for structural weaknesses...

If bad luck always comes in threes, perhaps the same is true of business turnarounds. Taylor Bloxham group chief executive Robert Lockwood certainly hopes so.

It started with finishing. Commercial printer PCL Digital was looking to win customers by offering more services. Print was well balanced on supply and demand, so managing director Nick Westley-Smith...

Tim has been in financial printing since 1987, including nearly 24 years at what’s now Black & Callow. He’s married to Julie, and they have two daughers.

We’re just a month and a half into 2018 and the packaging industry’s sustainability agenda has been firmly set for the forthcoming year – and indeed beyond.

The failure of Carillion, the UK’s second largest construction business, followed the loss of vast sums of money on big contracts and debts totalling more than £1.5bn, including a huge pension...