Interview
Interview: ‘We’ve got a good business, we do a bloody good job’
By his own admission, there have been some ups and downs over the 35 years Stephens & George managing director Andrew Jones has worked at the family firm.
Interview: ‘Print is changing fast and you have to move forward’
PrintWeek’s SME of the Year, Nationwide Print, is proof positive that small can indeed be beautiful.
Interview: ‘Print is having a real renaissance with young people’
It’s safe to say that Pureprint chief executive Mark Handford likes to run his business at full throttle.
Interview: ‘Inserts may not be sexy, but they have massive scale’
It’s not often that that PrintWeek gets invited to media agency bashes, where the beards are short and the hair directional.
Interview: ‘A business lives or dies on cashflow, not just profit’
According to Delta Group chief executive Mike Phillips, the firm’s clients regard it as one of the industry’s best kept secrets. But with sales expected to nudge £70m in 2015 and an ambitious plan to...
Interview: ‘Always build your business around what clients want’
Taking on one failed print business and converting it into a £38m-turnover firm that you then sell to a US corporate could be considered lucky. If you then go on to do it a second time, and make an...
Interview: ‘I bring knowledge of how to deliver value to members’
Despite the fact that he’s a biologist by training, by virtue of his degree at least, the BPIF’s new chief executive, Charles Jarrold, still feels he’s been involved with print for as long as he can...
Interview: ‘We want to get back to our dynamic heyday’
When then managing director Nigel Toplis left Kall Kwik in 2002, after a decade in which he had worked his way up from marketing controller, the franchise chain had around 170 centres the length and...
Interview: ‘It’s a mature firm, but there’s more to do’
While he might not have achieved his dream career of playing professional football for his beloved Fulham, there can only be a few people who are as passionate about their business as HH Global chief...
Interview: ‘You can’t hide eco slip-ups and we don’t want to’
It’s safe to say that for the past decade, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) was regarded as one of the bogeymen of paper manufacturing, vilified by environmentalists and NGOs across the globe for its...