Toplis is set to take up a role in a company outside the printing industry.
I feel I have achieved all we set out to do in my eight and a half years with the company, he said.

He will be replaced by former Great Northern Envelopes general manager Phil Muller, who is currently on a meet and greet of franchise operations around the UK with Toplis.

In my time we created a number of different opportunities for the business, and formed ODC, said Toplis. Im looking forward to a new challenge where I will have the opportunity to do something similar.

The new opportunity presented itself two to three months ago, he said. He will complete a four- to six-week handover with Muller before he departs.

Toplis said the company he was joining was another franchise organisation in a non-competing business, and that it handled promotional products and business marketing tools.