Jensen Press managing director Ian Skinner and technical and production director Jim Moss decided that third-party investment was essential for their company to expand.
“As a part of Pims, we now have the clout to develop areas of our business that we previously couldn’t finance, like photographic library work,” said Moss.
Moss and Skinner, who are 57 and 55 respectively, didn’t want to invest more of their own money into the company. Then in May they were approached by a prospective buyer.
“We went to Julian [Henchley, chairman of Pims Holdings], who is a long-standing friend, for advice on what to do. He then suggested that Pims could buy the company instead,” said Moss.
Jensen Press - which was commended in the Fine Art Printer category of last year’s PrintWeek awards - has two five-colour Heidelberg Speedmasters, as well as six small offset presses and in-house finishing. It also has CTP, and within 12 months it will invest in mono and colour digital presses.
Pims, which is based in north London, became Europe’s largest commercial digital printer after buying Basildon’s Communications In Print (CIP) in April.
Pims sales director Sarah Moss said: “We’re generally thought of as a digital printer, which isn’t the case. We’ve always had litho, but not B1 presses, so this improves the services we can offer to customers, like catalogues and reports and accounts"
It also acquired The Book Factory and DaCosta Print and Finishing last year, and has a direct mail printing plant in Peterborough.
Story by Rachel Barnes
