Business Feature
Business inspection: Signs of strength
"If you don’t have resilience, don’t think about starting your own business. Plain and simple.”
You couldn’t make it up
Sometimes we come across stories of criminality that are so outlandish as to be unbelievable – where the brass neck of the perpetrators is beyond belief. Yet these stories are often, remarkably, true.
Seeking an even balance
We may be three quarters of the way through 2024, but stereotypes of jobs and the sexes still exist with, in many cases, women still having to break through a theoretical glass ceiling.
Buy right or buy twice
New technologies may have found their way into the world of print, but ultimately, it’s people that make any business in the sector work.
Don’t byte off more than you can encrypt
The highly digitised world we inhabit would be alien to someone sitting on the Clapham Omnibus 20 years ago.
Avoid tax traps on renovations and improvements
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...
Two become one
It’s not hard to find examples of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) within the print and related sectors.
A matter of confidence
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...
The ongoing issue with late payers
The matter of late payment of debt, especially to those in print, is akin to the nightmare of another Trump presidency that just refuses to go away.
Navigating choppy waters
Folio Print Finishing, Gemini Print and Severn Print. Just three of a number of print firms that have regrettably failed for one reason or another.