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Rising star: Jack Pearson, sustainability manager, Bluetree Group
Jack is 30 and has been working at Bluetree Group since 2021.

Q&A: Monica Moody, sales manager, Minuteman Press Coventry
Monica says that she thinks being Italian helps with sales: “If you can understand my accent, but I have improved it since marrying an Englishman and living in this country since 1995.

60 seconds with Badgemaster
Badgemaster was established in 1992 and now lays claim to being “the unrivalled leader in the UK’s staff name badge sector”.

Overmatter: the printing shoe
Overmatter loves a cool shoe. Heelys, for example, a work of genius. Light-up LED wellies – also a quite brilliant innovation.

Business inspection: Combining two teams for premium performance
Perhaps it’s Carl Garnett’s successful side-line in motor racing that fuels his inability to sit still for long.

Navigating the social media landscape
The perfect tool to push the boundaries of freedom of speech or the devil’s own work.

Critical thinking
In On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin points out that it’s not the strongest or most intelligent of the species that survives, but the one that’s most adaptable to change.

Euro stars: Continental drift
Brexit may have disappeared from the news headlines in recent months but that doesn’t negate the fact that it’s meant firms have had to adapt to continue to trade in what is a huge market on our...

Killer app: Disc jockey printers stay vinyl-free for vegan eatery
Print Station has an unusual origin story. Starting off as a team of DJs rocking the kasbah at weddings and bar mitzvahs, the company of disc-spinners realised it could offer print as an additional...

Best of British: The genies of the lamp
Just as the UK has a cluster of inkjet developers which one way or another can trace their origins back to Cambridge University colleges, it also has a crop of innovative UV curing lamp makers whose...

Labelexpo Europe 2023: More than just labelling
Labelexpo Europe made a welcome return in Brussels in September, after the lockdown hiatus, with manufacturers taking a broader focus than purely labels.

Star product: Ricoh Pro C9500
Ricoh’s new flagship toner press, targeted at high-volume commercial print operations, boasts a new print engine and significant improvements to quality, speed, automation and media range.

Me & My: Morgana BM4050 bookletmaker with dual-bin feeder
In 2015, Peter Haddad started a print business called Apprintable from his garage.

Star product: Antigro Designer
This is an online print personalisation service, aimed at the B2C market that enables customers to upload, edit and integrate their designs into a huge variety of printed products, such as giftware...

Best of British: Industrial inkjet’s wizards
Here’s another pioneering British developer that grew up in the inkjet hothouse around Cambridge.