New joiners include Neil Smith as commercial director, who was previously with The Buying Team and has 20 years' experience in print. Jeremy Weidenbaum and Dan Mortimer both join Surrey-based HH as commercial managers. Weidenbaum was formerly with Communisis while Mortimer had a spell at Howard Hunt City.

"We are keen to recruit people experienced in the industry," said HH Associates group sales director Tony Massey. "We have a high calibre of staff and a high number of people have joined recently."
He added: "We have had a successful 12 months as the European market is very buoyant. Hopefully the market will snowball."

HH Associates has a workforce of 120 and, according to the firm, that figure has risen by 200% since 2003. This month HH signed an extended three-year print management deal with Unilever.