Features
Overmatter: Van-tastic cost savings on hotel horrors
Overmatter recently looked into a simple overnight stay at a Premier Inn, but found the price tag blench-makingly higher than anticipated.
Business inspection: Make your home your own
Moving premises for any print business is no mean feat but add in a complete building redesign, fit-out and kit revamp and it becomes an entirely different beast.
Are there alternatives to redundancy?
Economic dips come and go and in their wake businesses are left struggling financially. A number succumb to their wounds while others end up as zombie companies unable to do anything other than just...
Setting up for the first time
It doesn’t take much to set up a business: a good idea, graft, opportunity and of course, appropriate funding. However, it takes thought and planning to last the course and become successful.
Q&A: Gill Tress, Business services director, SF Taylor
Gill recently celebrated a special landmark – 40 years of working at SF Taylor. She’s married with one son, Dominic, and her hobbies include travelling, socialising with friends, trying new foods and...
Photographer takes a punt with Cambridge book
Martin Bond has been taking a photo of Cambridge – its people, buildings and animals – every day for the past 13 years.
Give the gift of print
If you are struggling to find a special something for a special someone, Printweek is here to help. Our annual Christmas gift guide is the go-to resource for the time-pressed and print-obsessed.
Rising star: Jack Pearson, sustainability manager, Bluetree Group
Jack is 30 and has been working at Bluetree Group since 2021.
Q&A: Monica Moody, sales manager, Minuteman Press Coventry
Monica says that she thinks being Italian helps with sales: “If you can understand my accent, but I have improved it since marrying an Englishman and living in this country since 1995.
60 seconds with Badgemaster
Badgemaster was established in 1992 and now lays claim to being “the unrivalled leader in the UK’s staff name badge sector”.
Overmatter: the printing shoe
Overmatter loves a cool shoe. Heelys, for example, a work of genius. Light-up LED wellies – also a quite brilliant innovation.
Business inspection: Combining two teams for premium performance
Perhaps it’s Carl Garnett’s successful side-line in motor racing that fuels his inability to sit still for long.
Navigating the social media landscape
The perfect tool to push the boundaries of freedom of speech or the devil’s own work.
Critical thinking
In On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin points out that it’s not the strongest or most intelligent of the species that survives, but the one that’s most adaptable to change.
Euro stars: Continental drift
Brexit may have disappeared from the news headlines in recent months but that doesn’t negate the fact that it’s meant firms have had to adapt to continue to trade in what is a huge market on our...