Opinion

Marketers should embrace innovation

It seems that M&A deals are a bit like busses, no action for months and then a convoy of them turn up all at once.

For the right buyers, quality still sells

Does quality and innovation count in print anymore, or do you have to be focused on driving up efficiencies and driving down the cost per sheet to run a successful business?

Don’t panic over the Brexit bump

This month marks 10 years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers sparked the global financial crisis. Happy anniversary.

Print can adapt to climate change

There’s been a definite whiff of autumn in the air this past week after what has been a long, hot summer. Unfortunately, it’s become increasingly apparent that the white heat of some very tough...

Happy birthday to PrintWeek!

This issue of PrintWeek celebrates our diamond anniversary, marking 60 years since this magazine’s illustrious forbear, The Litho Printer, was launched as “a companion to print in Britain”.

Fortune may be found in a nice niche

In this issue’s interview, Rapidity boss Paul Manning talks about some of the lessons he’s learned in his career, and one in particular really struck a chord: how do you go about recognising the next...

Act now if you want awards glory

The clock is ticking, and in just under two-weeks’ time the entry deadline for 2018’s PrintWeek Awards will have passed*.

Print’s future is in safe hands

We all have great work days, not so great work days and then, every so often, we have one of those amazing days where it feels more than a little fraudulent to use the word work as a descriptive.

GDPR may put ROI back on the throne

A new day has dawned, and the world, well Europe at least, will never be the same again.

GDPR spells trouble for lazy marketers

Unless you’ve been living under a stone for the past few months, it can’t have escaped your notice that in a few short weeks the biggest shake up of data regulations in at least two decades will be...

Let’s put the gap years behind us

Apologies in advance for the sweeping generalisation, but I think few people would argue that print is still very much a man’s game.

The pleasures of benchmarking

For many of you reading this, the next few days could well see a stack of spreadsheets slowly spreading across your desk as the end of the financial year beckons.

Get out of work to focus on your business

In a few short-days, months of hard work by the PrintWeek team, our exhibiting partners and our workshop and conference speakers will come to fruition when PrintWeekLive! 2.0 opens its doors.

New year predictions: Simon Moore, Eclipse

2017 has been a year of change for the Eclipse managing director, after he sold and merged his business with GI Solutions Group in February to create an £80m-plus business. However, he believes one...

New year predictions: Darren Coxon, Pensord, Cambrian Printers and BPIF

Pensord managing director Coxon must be one of the busiest men in print, not content with running one print business, this year he bought another, and then took on the presidency of the BPIF – it’s no...