Features
Switch on to smart energy and dial down your bills
Brexit is on the horizon, costs of energy are rising following the fall in sterling and an increase in taxation, and it appears that the UK’s energy generators can only just meet energy demands. It’s...
60 seconds with Nottingham Trade Finishers
Nottingham Trade Finishers was founded in 2006 by proprietor Richard Anstock (pictured). Richard was joined by Ian Holt as production manager and wife Emma as fellow director. The business began work...
Q&A: Ross Docherty, assistant manager, Bell & Bain
Ross is 19 and has already been working in the industry for three-and-a-half years, under the watchful eye of his father, MD Stephen Docherty. He lives in Bishopbriggs, Glasgow and was named...
Learning on the job
In reality TV the contestant’s journey – the struggle to become the best possible them – is a device to increase the entertainment value. In business there’s a more serious side to going on a journey,...
‘We just like going for it. We’re workers’
Earlier this year, Aron Priest and Andy Smith, joint managing directors and co-founders of the UK’s largest online trade printing business, Solopress, sold their circa £21m-turnover Southend-on-Sea...
How to score top marks in your chosen market
Becoming an academy school means freedom from local governance, which is both exciting and challenging. And it’s why Empine Print went back to school in order to learn how to best serve this changing...
Poll positions: what the parties mean for industry
For the second time in two years the electorate is being asked to decide the shape of government. While some think Theresa May is lacklustre and grey, she certainly knows how to throw the cat among...
Printers’ parties in ascendency again
Printers like to party, and for over 300 years the industry’s social gatherings have been referred to as a ‘waygoose’ or ‘wayzgoose’. Originally an evening feast with entertainment, the waygoose was...
Keep an eye open for warning signs
If you have spent many years driving the same roads, you will have become familiar with them, probably to the extent that you no longer need to check road signs or maps. Once-prominent landmarks now...
Don’t let late payers get the upper hand
Every business will, from time to time, encounter problems with late payment of its bills.
60 seconds with Myprint Partners
Back in 2014, Myprint Partners co-founder Richard Green approached Ian McCloskey (pictured) who was working as sales manager within the industry, with an idea to set up a new printing company.
Q&A: Nicholas Russell, managing director, Cambridge Printers
We think Nicholas must be one of PrintWeek’s longest-standing readers as he’s been reading the magazine (and its forebears) for more than 50 years. He started out as a management trainee at the...
Setting out a plan for long-term viability
Jason Short jetted off to Barcelona last week. For a man who went a long way, he’s come a long way. The managing director of Qualvis Print & Packaging was in the cosmopolitan capital of Catalonia for...
‘If your name is not on the list, you’re not coming in’
Back in 2005, panic ensued at Bloomsbury Publishing when something purporting to be the sixth Harry Potter book appeared to have been leaked online. It was actually found to be a fake – but it...
60 seconds with Windmill Print
Windmill Print has been passionate about producing the finest quality print since it was founded in 1975. “Perfection is the standard we’ve always sought to achieve with every job we produced, and our...