Interview
‘We don’t need to panic, we just need to follow the plan’
When Mark Cornford led a £12.8m MBO at Communisis’s business forms operation in 2008, it’s fair to say that a few people thought the proud Welshman was perhaps a little bit mad.
‘We’re about service, not about puffing our chests out’
On, ahem, paper it’s been a busy old year for David Hunter, Antalis managing director, UK, Ireland and Southern Africa.
‘Everyone wants a solution – bigger, faster or better’
Last week was the main judging day for the PrintWeek Awards was held, so we took the opportunity to grill more than 20 leading buyers on subjects ranging from what challenges they face, what drives...
‘The reason you get into digital print is because you love it’
There aren’t many things that worry ProCo managing director Jon Bailey, after all he’s made a career out of embracing change.
‘Identify where you are making money’
Normally a company boss cuts their teeth heading up a small business, graduating to bigger and bigger firms as they gain more experience before, perhaps one day, working for a multi-site,...
‘I only want to be in a business that’s about growth’
Quite how a £42.5m business with around 350 staff can be a well-kept secret might not be immediately clear, but that’s exactly how Anton chief executive Malcolm Lane-Ley describes the Essex-based...
'People are returning to print because it achieves results’
As one of the biggest brand-side print spenders in the UK, Sky’s head of print management Mark Cruise in many ways bears a heavy responsibility on his shoulders.
Interview: ‘We should work together to create new customers’
Not only is he the driving force behind Precision Printing the circa 120-staff, £20m-turnover group that is one of the UK’s leading exponents of mass customisation, he’s also a BPIF board member and...
Interview: ‘Complicated and difficult is our bread and butter’
In January 2012, Rob Kelly left the cosseted surroundings of St Ives, where he was the group’s marketing director, to go it alone as a marketing consultant. However, just six months later he returned...
‘My aim is always to find the next scalable business’
Tony Rafferty is chief executive of the rarest of beasts: a print PLC. However, while those three letters usually denote a faceless corporate behemoth, Grafenia is far from any of those things.