Beric Tempest & Co has struck out from its parent H Tempest photographic group in a management buyout.


The St Ives, Cornwall firm prints greeting cards and postcards and has renamed itself Temprint. It is headed by new chairman and managing director Alan Sperring, who joined from Haynes Publishing where he was production director.


Three senior managers at the 47-staff firm join Sperring on the board: Keith Barnes, Neil Dennis, and Michael White.


Temprint is spending 1.25m on a six-colour KBA 105 to join its five-colour 104, and to move to a 1,500m2 office 12 miles away in Redruth this summer.


Sperring said H Tempest was to focus on its core educational photography work.


"This was a great chance to cut loose and grow," he said. "We want to attract work across the country and not pinch it from printers in Cornwall."


He refused to give take-over cost details but expected first-year turnover to hit 3m.