Opinion

As highlighted in this issue’s briefing pages, it seems that there has been something of a summer growth-spurt of M&A activity across the printing industry.

This issue’s interviewee Adam Carnell started his print business with partner James Kinsella when they were both just 21 – 10 years ago to the day tomorrow.

So, what are the lessons to be learned from the collapse last week of Howard Hunt and the sad loss of 250 jobs?

Oh, how the might have fallen. Again. The abrupt bankruptcy of Helio Charleroi at the end of January. The ‘fire sale’ of CPI Group. Further sell-offs, further closures. And now, the end.

So, after last week’s announcement, it’s hopefully not escaped your attention that the fateful decisions that could have a massive impact on your business and its people will be unveiled in October.

I’m not going to lie, for the past few months when I sit down to write this comment, I do everything I can to avoid writing about Brexit.

With everything that’s going on around Brexit at the moment, this month’s National Apprenticeship Week was sadly lost in the fog of confusion emanating from Westminster and probably passed many of you...

Thanks to Kelly O’Sullivan and her new networking group, I have learned about the great Emily Faithfull and her early, all-female print works. What a woman!

Apologies in advance for some of the language used in this issue’s ‘big interview’.

As is rapidly becoming a tradition, in this new year issue we feature the reflections on the year gone by and the hopes and dreams for the year ahead of some of print’s wise men and women.

Chief executive Martin Woolley, who led a management buyout of independent media agency The Specialist Works this summer, believes printers and print managers need to form a closer bond with their...

How. Can. It. Be. Christmas. [Again.]

This issue’s round table discussion on CRDs was certainly an eye opener for me, not least because it highlighted the eye-watering diversity of products and services that a modern CRD has to offer to...

In this issue’s round table discussion, of the many interesting topics covered one in particular stood out: that there are two types of print businesses – those that are focused on products and those...

Now that daylight saving time has ended, the autumn evenings will briefly get lighter before the winter gloom descends – but last Monday evening the industry collectively lit up the night sky over...