Business Inspection

Peerless is almost peerless, and that was the challenge. The plastics and coatings company is one of the UK’s largest and best known specialists in creating UV-cured hard coatings for plastics that...

Peter Llewellyn and his team are good at filling gaps: first it was the town, then it was digital print. Now it’s foiling.

Picture the scene. A client calls and urgently needs a job printed on uncoated stock, finished and ready by tomorrow. Not a difficult scenario to envisage in this day and age, but a job that many...

The rise and rise of artisanal food shops, craft breweries and other niches in food and drink sectors sends out growth opportunities not only for the home-spun businesses and micro distillers that...

Dean Johnson knew he had to expand his horizons when he could barely see any horizon at all. The family sign-making business he runs was so chock-full of equipment and bustling with staff and walk-in...

James Birch can sense when he’s on to a good thing and this time he can feel it too: fabrics. Last week saw the official launch of a textile-printing arm of the company he directs, Colourgrpahics....

Miles Linney takes a “lucky coin”. That’s because at trade shows and exhibitions luck can be a big help. Visiting shows, insists Linney Group’s chief executive, is a must, even if attending a big...

When Scott Pearce and business partner Mark Gamble bought what was then called Datumpress in an MBO in 2008, due to the retirement of boss and company founder Alan Willis, it had a relatively small...

Those images on Monday 28 December were horrifying, and remain unforgettable. Like most people, Chris Milner had been tuning into TV news channels over the Christmas period, gripped with cold...

Should a printer define itself by the equipment it uses or by its customers? Marketing theory would suggest the latter, but with the high prices and long pay-back times of presses there’s a risk you...