John William Northend set-up JW Northend in August 1889 at the age of 33. He left his secure job at William Townsend & Son, assured of his own technical ability to gain new customers based on an offer...

Premises are essential to a printer’s success. Not only do they have to be in the right location, but they need to have that ‘Goldilocks’ element to them – not to be so large so as to cost more than...

It’s not hard to find examples of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) within the print and related sectors.

Business is all about confidence. This means confidence in a supplier to do what has been agreed; confidence in a customer to pay on time; and confidence in the government and the economy to encourage...

Most newspaper printers work out of the spotlight. They might have the world’s biggest celebrities on their covers, but they avoid attention.

Sappi’s Gratkorn Mill can look back on more than 400 hundred years of papermaking at the site, which nestles by the river Mur in a beautiful part of Austria near the country’s second city Graz –...

Increasing efforts to find and train young people will close the skills gap and help to ensure print’s future is secure.

Confidence is critical to the success of any business. But as with so many things in life there are the ‘nice to haves’ we have little influence over and ‘must haves’ we like to think we have absolute...

The Print Show launched in 2015 and has run every year since, with the unavoidable exceptions of Covid-blighted 2020 and 2021. It is now a well-established and popular fixture on the UK printing...

James Cropper said it has made a positive start to the financial year in a trading update released today (4 September).

Acquisitive label printing firm Customark has continued a string of purchases with the acquisition of Charnwood Label Craft (CLC) in early August, and sister companies Kingsbury Screens and Industrial...

Kite Packaging’s site in Kent has been damaged for a second time by activists from Palestine Action.