60 seconds with Nottingham Trade Finishers

Nottingham Trade Finishers was founded in 2006 by proprietor Richard Anstock (pictured). Richard was joined by Ian Holt as production manager and wife Emma as fellow director. The business began work within a month of the closure of their previous employer when the owners retired, and the relationships Richard had developed gave long-standing clients the confidence to back the new firm.

Where are you based?

Nottingham Trade Finishers is based three miles from J26 of the M1 in Nottingham, giving excellent transport links to each corner of the UK 

How many staff do you have?

20 plus the management team

What does your firm do? 

Print finishing services within the commercial print and direct mail sectors. Everything from large-volume general finishing to complex and bespoke one piece mailers

What’s your typical customer?

Our clients range from local printers to national printing consultants and media management companies

What’s your USP?

We pride ourselves on offering realistic and achievable solutions to finishing complex and unusual work, contributing at the design stage so the client can produce the product they really want, but produce it in the most cost-effective way possible

What’s your company’s motto?

We believe in consistent quality, a high level of customer service, honesty and reliability with fair pricing

What equipment do you run?

Five MBO folders and two Muller Martini stitching lines. Also kit for creasing, banding, inkjetting, tabbing and card tipping on/sachet affixing

What’s been your proudest achievement in the past few years?

Bringing staff with us at the very beginning that were skilled colleagues, we secured them and ourselves new employment, adding to our numbers over the years and despite downturns in our industry we have kept that consistency

What’s your team’s favourite biscuit?

Any biscuit that lasts longer than five minutes after opening!