Features

Invest in your workforce of tomorrow

The managing director of KCS Print welcomed chancellor George Osborne’s recent boost for apprentices: a new levy to help large businesses spearhead a drive to increase numbers of apprentices. With...

60 seconds with HNS Signs

HNS Signs was established in 2010, initially to provide signs to the hospitals, but has since expanded to offer everything from plaques for royal openings, restaurants, bars and hospitals, to vehicle...

Profit from the personal touch

A sign of the value of this market is Photobox,” says Jim Nicol, managing director at The Magic Touch, a firm that supplies equipment and consumables for personalised product decoration.

Building in all the comforts of home can be a tricky job

When it comes to residential property the guiding principle is always ‘location, location, location’. But although this same rule might be applied by some business owners when it comes to workplace...

60 seconds with Hastings Printing Co

Celebrating its centenary is Hastings Printing Co (HPC), formed in 1915 to service the entertainment industry. In the 1970s it was bought by a publisher and went into other markets including magazine...

Q&A: Rhianna Moore, digital print and finishing apprentice, Telford Repro

Rhianna – Rhi for short – is 19 and is nine months into her first year in the industry. Congratulations are in order as she recently won IT Apprentice of the Year at her college. She’s also a musician...

Business inspection: Make a success of a shrinking market sector

The financial print sector has undergone radical change, but the work is there, if you know what your clients want.

Trade specialists thrive despite a gloomy forecast

Five years ago, people feared for the future of trade printers. All the noise in the industry was of businesses bringing services in-house, rendering the traditional trade supplier obsolete: what...

‘I only want to be in a business that’s about growth’

Quite how a £42.5m business with around 350 staff can be a well-kept secret might not be immediately clear, but that’s exactly how Anton chief executive Malcolm Lane-Ley describes the Essex-based...

Why doing good is more than just a good idea

Corporate social responsibility, these days increasingly referred to simply as ‘corporate responsibility’ or ‘sustainability’, has much to recommend it. After all, what’s not to like about the notion...

Q&A: Alex Cain, director, Mount Street Printers

Alex has spent 15 of his 37 years in print, working at the family print business located in the one of the most upmarket areas of London – Mayfair. When not at work Alex and his wife are kept busy and...

60 seconds with Kingsline

Kingsline was set up seven years ago in a converted milking parlour by David Saunders with the objective of offering a targeted bespoke mailing service. Since then it has developed into a full-service...

Can greener wheels help keep print on the road?

Last year, Dave Broadway, managing director at CFH Docmail in Bristol, took delivery of a new car – a Tesla Model S. The slick-looking saloon is fast and powerful, but crucially, it’s got a whopping...

Print’s tactile nature ensures other media can’t touch it

One clue of how important touch is as a sense, is in how closely the language of emotion is entwined with it. When we talk about emotional states, we talk about ‘feelings’.

'People are returning to print because it achieves results’

As one of the biggest brand-side print spenders in the UK, Sky’s head of print management Mark Cruise in many ways bears a heavy responsibility on his shoulders.