Features

Employee relationships

Striking at the heart of business

Strikes are in vogue and it seems that with every week comes either the threat or the call for strike action. The disputes of the last year or so are less than ideal, but the reality is that they’re...

GEW’s headquarters and production facility in Crawley, West Sussex
GEW

Lighting the way

We’ve built up quite a library of Best of British stories now, but Crawley- based UV lamp maker GEW (EC) might just claim the title of ‘most British’ to date.

Buyers' guide

Making connections: assessing the UK’s MIS landscape

Management information systems or MIS, is a fairly loose and fluid group of computerised financial, production and sales support tools.

Overmatter: miniature marvels

What have we here? Teeny tiny replicas of 8in floppy discs and a 1:12 scale model of an Epson RF 80 FT dot matrix printer, complete with punched computer paper. Remember them?

Webster: Dairy Milk fan

Q&A: Graham Webster Business development executive, Tradeprint

Graham has worked at Tradeprint for five years, and also plays part-time professional football for Montrose FC.

60 seconds with: King Print 

In a coronation year, what better than to feature King Print of Kingsbridge? The firm started life in 1992 as a print and copy shop “with the first colour copier in town”, and the following year added...

Patel: targeting traffic lights

Rising star: Jay Patel Senior digital press operator, Micropress 

Jay is 26 and started out as an apprentice at Micropress Printers in Reydon, Suffolk in September 2020.

Four-day week

Fitting a quart into a pint pot

The Covid pandemic changed so much. It redefined retail, forced organisations to change working practices, led to the rise of remote working, and proved that technology has a very distinct role to...

Security

Don’t let the bast**ds in

Hardly a day goes by without a warning or headline about scams. Employee frauds, push payment, or errant suppliers short-changing customers, the level of activity is rising, despite the actions of...

Recruitment

You're hired!

There are several routes into the world of print but one, the apprenticeship, can bring the young into an ageing sector and enable businesses to mould recruits to their way of working.

"The vehicle is used for deliveries most days, so we had to work around that too"

Killer App: Minuteman Press Bath dresses van to plug city festival

The past few months have seen several major cultural events that generated large amounts of print – the Coronation of King Charles III and Eurovision in Liverpool to name two – but the usual busy...

Unlocking the tenders process

Many firms are already switched on to the concept of selling to not just private organisations, but also the public sector. They take part in a market that the government noted in a June 2022...

Painting the town red, yellow, green and pink

If there is one sense above all others that is the most powerful, it’s probably vision. A marvel of genetic engineering, eyes gather information about the world.

Weathering the workplace

When it comes to the British, if it’s not football, the royal family, or holidays, the conversation invariably turns to the weather.

Arc-UK Technologies, part of global parent company, Arc Document Solutions
Arc-UK Technologies

Business Inspection: Changing for good

In March, the UK government admitted the latest raft of policies in its updated Net Zero Strategy would miss its 2030 nationally determined contributions commitment, under the Paris Agreement, to cut...