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Alderson Brothers, Peter Alderson The Alderson Brothers have been printing alongside each other for more than 50 years and far from retiring are pressing on with a new display print venture with other ideas to follow Issue Date: April 2010
Altaimage, Rob King Altaimage was always a prepress house with print as part of the service. Now litho has joined digital on the menu of services offered, Rob King explains to Gareth Ward Issue Date: March 2009
Ancient House Press, Allison Berry and Michael Underdown Ancient House Press is a family-owned business which is determined to fix its focus on the future rather than rest on past achievements, recognising that the business has to keep changing. Issue Date: December 2007
Anton, John Knight Anton’s strategy of continuous investment has improved efficiency, increased capacity and is providing the basis for a company planning to double sales in the next five years Issue Date: September 2008
Benham Goodhead Print, David Holland It is the giant web offset investment that many predicted must fail, especially as the recession bit, but BGP is still around and feeling optimistic Issue Date: April 2010
Blue Group, Paul Mursell The Blue Group has over eight years grown from a business that thanks to its acquisitions strategy is starting to get noticed. Could this approach become a model that others adopt? Issue Date: October 2009
Butler Tanner & Dennis, Kevin Sarney Last year Butler & Tanner seemed dead and buried as a business, but a last minute rescue has seen the Somerset book printer bounce back as a much more sustainable business that should be around for the long term Issue Date: April 2009
CFI, Kevin Eyers THREE YEARS AGO, service point was an operation which had a wide geographic spread, but concentrating on what is called the AEC (architecture, engineering, construction) sector, it could offer little depth. Three years ago Chris Fowler International was an independent sheetfed printer in the shadow Issue Date: March 2009
Colouration, Tony Dennington In its eight years, Colouration has flown under most people's radars, but during that time the Wimbledon printer has consistently grown its business. Michael Barnett asks managing director Tony Dennington how he has done it Issue Date: June 2008
CPI, Pierre-François Catté CPI has begun to install HP high-speed inkjet presses at its plants in France, a move which fills a market gap Issue Date: April 2010
Danwood, Gerry Mulvaney Danwood is looking for partners to move into more sophisticated areas of print strategy says Gerry Mulvaney. Issue Date: December 2007
Day International, Dermot Healy Blanket and pressroom chemicals business Day International is now part of Flint, but customers will continue to get the service they recognise says Dermot Healy Issue Date: May 2008
Diamond Hi-Speed, Howard Wilkins Diamond Hi-Speed has been set up to tackle a demand for high-volume perfect binding and no expense has been spared to elevate the operation to the top of the pile Issue Date: October 2008
Dotgain.com The BPIF believes there’s a need for printers to evolve into marketing service providers and is setting up a new division to lead this transition Issue Date: November 2009
DP Direct, Nick Claxson Nick Claxson is a young, highly successful entrepreneur with a background and track record in the IT business. Now he has bought a print company, seeing a tremendous affinity between the two disciplines Issue Date: October 2008
EskoArtwork, Carsten Knudsen EskoArtwork is the market leader in prepress technology for packaging applications. It’s a lead that the company has no intention of relinquishing, explains Carsten Knudsen Issue Date: November 2008
CEO Interviews Finishing changing, says Friedheims Morris Peter Morris is behind the wheel at Friedheim International as the company needs to steer a course through troubled times CEO Headline: Freidheim International, Peter Morris Issue Date: July 2009
Gandinnovations, James Gandy Gandinnovations has become a major player in large format inkjet printing through the charisma of its founder and the quality of its products Issue Date: December 2008
GI Direct, Patrick Headley Transpromo is still more of a concept than a proven market, but this has not stopped GI Direct showing a £5 million commitment by becoming the first company to install Screen’s high speed inkjet press. Issue Date: February 2008
Heidelberg UK, George Clarke and Picon, Tim Webb Picon, the association of suppliers of printing equipment and consumables, first sold Ipex, its crown jewels, and has now merged with a rival association representing machinery importers. What is going on? Issue Date: January 2008
Heidelberg, Bernhard Schreier Heidelberg knows it has to change and its move into packaging is just one strand for a company that has confidence in the offset process, says Bernhard Schreier Issue Date: June 2008
Hine Labels, Bill Hine Hine Labels has matched the output from its conventional flexo presses with a new Xeikon, giving it unprecedented flexibility to choose the best print process Issue Date: June 2009
ICE, Graham Frost With the supply of ink to printers increasingly in the hands of two or three very large corporations, the question has to be whether there is space for a more tailored approach to serving the UK printer. ICE believes there is Issue Date: September 2008
Inc Direct, Noel Warner Inc Direct is the company behind the highly personalised Carphone Warehouse welcome pack, but this is just the jumping off point for a company where strategic thinking is at the heart of everything it does Issue Date: September 2009
J Thomson Colour Printers, Kevin Creechan J Thomson Colour Printers is the best printer in Scotland, by its reckoning and those it works for. But it is not immune to change and has had to adapt to different market conditions in recent years and now is preparing a period of expansion Issue Date: March 2008
KBA UK, Christian Knapp KBA has established a leading presence in the large format sheetfed market, with good reason – and now, says UK managing director Christian Knapp, the economics are becoming overwhelming Issue Date: June 2008
Kodak, Jeff Hayzlett People listen to Kodak’s chief marketing officer and his message is a positive one for the printing industry Issue Date: June 2009
Kolbus, Kai Büntemeyer Kai Büntemeyer is ceo of Kolbus, a world-leading supplier of binding systems, and takes a global view of developments in finishing systems Issue Date: October 2008
Lateral Group, Nick Dixon Integrated Communications Management is how Nick Dixon describes the marriage of print and electronic marketing campaigns, an area where Lateral Group is forging a lead Issue Date: June 2009
Linney Group, Nick, Miles and Charles Linney A Company with a history stretching six generations is one that is among the most progressive in the country Issue Date: June 2008
Litho Supplies, John Byford John Byford remains the doyen of salesmen and despite retirement is willing to pass on a few eternal observations Issue Date: April 2008
Manroland GB, Norman Revill Norman Revill is managing director of Manroland GB, the new name for a 100-year-old business, which is changing radically for its second century Issue Date: July 2008
Multigraphics, Gary Lasham Gary Lasham thought he had found a gem when with the help of 3i, he bought Multigraphics three years ago. With a commitment to Efi's product family and investment in digital, DS Smith has this year bought a rather more polished jewel. Issue Date: April 2008
Newsprinters, Allan Wain The £650 million spent on new printing plants for Newsprinters has rendered the playground riddle out of date and marks another revolution in how newspapers are printed Issue Date: October 2008
Océ, Rokus van Iperen With a new print technology introduced at Drupa, Rokus van Iperen, ceo of Océ, explains why the company is confident about its prospects Issue Date: October 2008
O'Neil Data Systems, Jim Lucanish O'Neil Data Systems, the first company to use the HP web press, believes the technology will open up new applications Issue Date: June 2009
Picon at Drupa The British are heading to Drupa – British suppliers that is – and Picon members explain why no printer can afford to miss the show Issue Date: May 2008
Pixart, Matteo Rigamonti Pixart is growing quickly as the internet moves on from being an information medium to a means of smoothing the purchase of print and allowing a business based near Venice to operate anywhere in Europe Issue Date: February 2010
Polestar, Catherine Hearn Recession, reorganisation, renewals – some of the issues that Catherine Hearn has to get to grips with as chief operating officer of Polestar, as she explains to Gareth Ward Issue Date: February 2009
Printondemand, Andy Cork Printondemand-worldwide takes assumptions about what a print business should be and ignores them, providing instead a model for what a print business of the future might be Issue Date: March 2010
Printwell, Hussein Ghor Printwell is seeing the benefits of a web to print implementation where the internet application is bow-linked to the company’s back end MIS Issue Date: September 2008
Pureprint Group, Mark Handford Mergers are going to be very much to the fore in the next year or two as companies park their pride and realise that, in order to progress, greater resources are needed Issue Date: January 2009
Real Digital, Peter Rivett To visit Real Digital’s factory is to step forward in time. The company has combined print technology, customer focus and data management to bring its ideas of how print should be produced in the 21st Century to life in a factory in Croydon Issue Date: December 2008
RedTie, Marian Stefani In less than two years red Tie has become one of the leading providers of web to print tools for printers and it is far from finished Issue Date: September 2009
Screen UK, Brian Filler Is it true that in the modern world large exhibitions are becoming outdated? Not a chance argues Brian Filler, managing director of Screen UK Issue Date: July 2008
Sego Print, Hervé Richard It’s less about Gallic flair than a continual search for additional services and quality to enhance the customer experience, believes Hervé Richard, ceo of Sego Print. And ISO 12647-2 has a key role to play. Issue Date: January 2008
Southernprint, Charles Jarrold Last year was a red letter one for Southernprint and its managing director Charles Jarrold, who tells Andy Knaggs about the ongoing transformation of the Dorset web printer. Issue Date: February 2008
St Ives, Pat Martel Magazines are going to become a less important element of St Ives product mix in years to come as magazines themselves examine what they do Issue Date: November 2009
St Ives, Pat Martell St Ives has ridden out the storms of recession and is beginning to reshape the business to be well-placed for the way that its markets are changing says chief executive Pat Martell Issue Date: April 2010
St Ives, Simon Ward Changing the direction of the St Ives print group is likened to changing the direction of an oil-carrying tanker. It doesn’t happen overnight, but as the turn begins, the change in the business is already profound. Issue Date: January 2008
Stones the Printers, Steve Palmer Stones the Printers is moving to operate to the ISO 12647-2 standard, and is uncovering a range of benefits as it progresses in this direction Issue Date: February 2009
TJ International, Angus Clark TJ International owes its present success to printing books but also, as managing director Angus Clark explains, to extending this concept beyond ink on paper and blocks in cases Issue Date: July 2008
Webmart, Simon Biltcliffe Webmart likes to do things differently, from its internal culture to its striking branding, but underneath all this Simon Biltcliffe insists that what it is doing is good for the print industry Issue Date: February 2010

Alderson Brothers, Peter Alderson

The Alderson Brothers have been printing alongside each other for more than 50 years and far from retiring are pressing on with a new display print venture with other ideas to follow
Issue Date: April 2010

Altaimage, Rob King

Altaimage was always a prepress house with print as part of the service. Now litho has joined digital on the menu of services offered, Rob King explains to Gareth Ward
Issue Date: March 2009

Ancient House Press, Allison Berry and Michael Underdown

Ancient House Press is a family-owned business which is determined to fix its focus on the future rather than rest on past achievements, recognising that the business has to keep changing.
Issue Date: December 2007

Anton, John Knight

Anton’s strategy of continuous investment has improved efficiency, increased capacity and is providing the basis for a company planning to double sales in the next five years
Issue Date: September 2008

Benham Goodhead Print, David Holland

It is the giant web offset investment that many predicted must fail, especially as the recession bit, but BGP is still around and feeling optimistic
Issue Date: April 2010

Blue Group, Paul Mursell

The Blue Group has over eight years grown from a business that thanks to its acquisitions strategy is starting to get noticed. Could this approach become a model that others adopt?
Issue Date: October 2009

Butler Tanner & Dennis, Kevin Sarney

Last year Butler & Tanner seemed dead and buried as a business, but a last minute rescue has seen the Somerset book printer bounce back as a much more sustainable business that should be around for the long term
Issue Date: April 2009

CFI, Kevin Eyers

THREE YEARS AGO, service point was an operation which had a wide geographic spread, but concentrating on what is called the AEC (architecture, engineering, construction) sector, it could offer little depth. Three years ago Chris Fowler International was an independent sheetfed printer in the shadow
Issue Date: March 2009

Colouration, Tony Dennington

In its eight years, Colouration has flown under most people's radars, but during that time the Wimbledon printer has consistently grown its business. Michael Barnett asks managing director Tony Dennington how he has done it
Issue Date: June 2008

CPI, Pierre-François Catté

CPI has begun to install HP high-speed inkjet presses at its plants in France, a move which fills a market gap
Issue Date: April 2010

Danwood, Gerry Mulvaney

Danwood is looking for partners to move into more sophisticated areas of print strategy says Gerry Mulvaney.
Issue Date: December 2007

Day International, Dermot Healy

Blanket and pressroom chemicals business Day International is now part of Flint, but customers will continue to get the service they recognise says Dermot Healy
Issue Date: May 2008

Diamond Hi-Speed, Howard Wilkins

Diamond Hi-Speed has been set up to tackle a demand for high-volume perfect binding and no expense has been spared to elevate the operation to the top of the pile
Issue Date: October 2008

Dotgain.com

The BPIF believes there’s a need for printers to evolve into marketing service providers and is setting up a new division to lead this transition
Issue Date: November 2009

DP Direct, Nick Claxson

Nick Claxson is a young, highly successful entrepreneur with a background and track record in the IT business. Now he has bought a print company, seeing a tremendous affinity between the two disciplines
Issue Date: October 2008

EskoArtwork, Carsten Knudsen

EskoArtwork is the market leader in prepress technology for packaging applications. It’s a lead that the company has no intention of relinquishing, explains Carsten Knudsen
Issue Date: November 2008

CEO Interviews

Finishing changing, says Friedheims Morris

Peter Morris is behind the wheel at Friedheim International as the company needs to steer a course through troubled times CEO Headline: Freidheim International, Peter Morris
Issue Date: July 2009

Gandinnovations, James Gandy

Gandinnovations has become a major player in large format inkjet printing through the charisma of its founder and the quality of its products
Issue Date: December 2008

GI Direct, Patrick Headley

Transpromo is still more of a concept than a proven market, but this has not stopped GI Direct showing a £5 million commitment by becoming the first company to install Screen’s high speed inkjet press.
Issue Date: February 2008

Heidelberg UK, George Clarke and Picon, Tim Webb

Picon, the association of suppliers of printing equipment and consumables, first sold Ipex, its crown jewels, and has now merged with a rival association representing machinery importers. What is going on?
Issue Date: January 2008

Heidelberg, Bernhard Schreier

Heidelberg knows it has to change and its move into packaging is just one strand for a company that has confidence in the offset process, says Bernhard Schreier
Issue Date: June 2008

Hine Labels, Bill Hine

Hine Labels has matched the output from its conventional flexo presses with a new Xeikon, giving it unprecedented flexibility to choose the best print process
Issue Date: June 2009

ICE, Graham Frost

With the supply of ink to printers increasingly in the hands of two or three very large corporations, the question has to be whether there is space for a more tailored approach to serving the UK printer. ICE believes there is
Issue Date: September 2008

Inc Direct, Noel Warner

Inc Direct is the company behind the highly personalised Carphone Warehouse welcome pack, but this is just the jumping off point for a company where strategic thinking is at the heart of everything it does
Issue Date: September 2009

J Thomson Colour Printers, Kevin Creechan

J Thomson Colour Printers is the best printer in Scotland, by its reckoning and those it works for. But it is not immune to change and has had to adapt to different market conditions in recent years and now is preparing a period of expansion
Issue Date: March 2008

KBA UK, Christian Knapp

KBA has established a leading presence in the large format sheetfed market, with good reason – and now, says UK managing director Christian Knapp, the economics are becoming overwhelming
Issue Date: June 2008

Kodak, Jeff Hayzlett

People listen to Kodak’s chief marketing officer and his message is a positive one for the printing industry
Issue Date: June 2009

Kolbus, Kai Büntemeyer

Kai Büntemeyer is ceo of Kolbus, a world-leading supplier of binding systems, and takes a global view of developments in finishing systems
Issue Date: October 2008

Lateral Group, Nick Dixon

Integrated Communications Management is how Nick Dixon describes the marriage of print and electronic marketing campaigns, an area where Lateral Group is forging a lead
Issue Date: June 2009

Linney Group, Nick, Miles and Charles Linney

A Company with a history stretching six generations is one that is among the most progressive in the country
Issue Date: June 2008

Litho Supplies, John Byford

John Byford remains the doyen of salesmen and despite retirement is willing to pass on a few eternal observations
Issue Date: April 2008

Manroland GB, Norman Revill

Norman Revill is managing director of Manroland GB, the new name for a 100-year-old business, which is changing radically for its second century
Issue Date: July 2008

Multigraphics, Gary Lasham

Gary Lasham thought he had found a gem when with the help of 3i, he bought Multigraphics three years ago. With a commitment to Efi's product family and investment in digital, DS Smith has this year bought a rather more polished jewel.
Issue Date: April 2008

Newsprinters, Allan Wain

The £650 million spent on new printing plants for Newsprinters has rendered the playground riddle out of date and marks another revolution in how newspapers are printed
Issue Date: October 2008

Océ, Rokus van Iperen

With a new print technology introduced at Drupa, Rokus van Iperen, ceo of Océ, explains why the company is confident about its prospects
Issue Date: October 2008

O'Neil Data Systems, Jim Lucanish

O'Neil Data Systems, the first company to use the HP web press, believes the technology will open up new applications
Issue Date: June 2009

Picon at Drupa

The British are heading to Drupa – British suppliers that is – and Picon members explain why no printer can afford to miss the show
Issue Date: May 2008

Pixart, Matteo Rigamonti

Pixart is growing quickly as the internet moves on from being an information medium to a means of smoothing the purchase of print and allowing a business based near Venice to operate anywhere in Europe
Issue Date: February 2010

Polestar, Catherine Hearn

Recession, reorganisation, renewals – some of the issues that Catherine Hearn has to get to grips with as chief operating officer of Polestar, as she explains to Gareth Ward
Issue Date: February 2009

Printondemand, Andy Cork

Printondemand-worldwide takes assumptions about what a print business should be and ignores them, providing instead a model for what a print business of the future might be
Issue Date: March 2010

Printwell, Hussein Ghor

Printwell is seeing the benefits of a web to print implementation where the internet application is bow-linked to the company’s back end MIS
Issue Date: September 2008

Pureprint Group, Mark Handford

Mergers are going to be very much to the fore in the next year or two as companies park their pride and realise that, in order to progress, greater resources are needed
Issue Date: January 2009

Real Digital, Peter Rivett

To visit Real Digital’s factory is to step forward in time. The company has combined print technology, customer focus and data management to bring its ideas of how print should be produced in the 21st Century to life in a factory in Croydon
Issue Date: December 2008