Personnel

Business inspection: Performing at the gold standard

Overhauling performance management cemented this company’s commitment to staff.

Comment: Dynamic duos must share a vision

Our past couple of interviewees have reminded me of the power of print partnerships.

Employee absence down in paper and printing

The average number of days lost per year for each employee in the paper and printing industry has fallen for the second year in a row, according to the latest annual Absence Management survey from the...

Heidelberg UK's Mark Hogan promoted to global sales role

Heidelberg UK marketing director Mark Hogan has been promoted to head up worldwide sales of finishing equipment for the manufacturer in a newly-created role.

Business inspection: Alternative strategies for sales success

A sales team might seem like an essential part of any business, but that's not always true

Interview: 'Whatever it takes to do the job well'

There probably aren't many people that would contemplate starting a business in the print industry at 21, but that's exactly what First 4 Print Finishing managing director David Nestor did. And, as if...

Results bear out a radical restructure

It is 2009 and St Ives' chief executive Patrick Martell, who joined the group as an apprentice in 1980, is giving his first major interview since taking the reins in April of the worst year in the...

Communisis director Singh leaves in reshuffle

Communisis group business development director Gurdev Singh has left the company amid a reshuffle of its senior sales staff.

Archant chairman Richard Jewson to retire

Archant chairman Richard Jewson will retire at the end of 2013.

Interview: 'It's not a declining market, it's evolving'

By his own admission, DST Output UK chief executive Jeremy Walters has had to be a fast learner throughout his career. And his latest challenge is learning US English, since he took up the reins at...

Don't fall victim to workplace hazards

Red tape. Definitely something that features prominently on printers' top-five-things-to-grumble-about lists. And yet seemingly overly prescriptive government legislation is often there for good...

'We see ourselves as growth hackers'

Lawrence Merritt was managing director of Photobox UK & Ireland from 2007 until 1 March this year when he side-stepped to head up his new 'incubator' arm of the business, Photobox Startups. Hannah...