Profile

Q&A: Howard Forton, marketing manager, Irongate Managed Communications

Howard started his marketing and sales career back in 1981 and has been involved with print one way or another ever since: either specifying it, buying it or managing teams that either manage it, use...

60 seconds with Hammond Bindery

Trade binding specialist Hammond Bindery was founded in 1976, and then acquired by long-established printer H Charlesworth & Co in the early 1980s.

Q&A: Matt Galloway, sales and business development, Galloways Printers

Matt started out in engineering at 18, but quickly realised that sitting in front of a computer screen working on large scale jobs such as schools, stadia and large industrial units wasn’t for him....

60 seconds with Telford Repro

Telford Repro was formed in 1994 and has grown from its origins as a copy shop and plan printing specialist into one of the leading short-run digital print specialists in the West Midlands.

Q&A: David Fortune, joint managing director, Central Colour

Although he left fashion retail in the 1980s to work in print sales, David still has fond memories of his time at Topman in Lincoln. Working his way through the print industry, he is now the managing...

60 seconds with North Press

Formerly a branding and design company overseen by 27-year-old managing director Ross Whitfield, North Press took delivery of a digital printer in October last year after finding that it was...

Q&A: Tracey Hemingway-Wright, studio manager, Hibiscus

Since getting a job as a paste-up artist/typesetter 25 years ago, Tracey and print have been inseparable. Moving to specialist commercial printing firm Hibiscus as a Mac operator, she now manages the...

60-seconds with Copyprint

Copyprint was established in 1980 in the former owner’s garage. It grew substantially in the early 1980s and moved to an industrial unit in Treforest. It has since taken over the neighbouring units on...

60 seconds with PNG Digital

Founder and managing director Mike Rawcliffe has been operating PNG Digital for just over a year from premises in Blackpool, Lancashire and the business has already experienced steady growth.

Q&A: Asif Choudry, sales and marketing director, Resource

Asif lists his hobbies as “work and running”. One of those is definitely not a hobby and the other one remains highly debateable among a large section of the population, but we’ll let it slide for...