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Historic printing works to be auctioned
Wyndeham Group’s former Grimsby site Wyndeham Gait goes under the hammer this week, with a guide price of £250,000 to £300,000.

Label Printer of the Year 2015: Label Apeel
Award-winning label makers, according to judges, must “tick a number of boxes”. Label Apeel has done exactly that for the past three years to secure a hat-trick of category wins. Labels for King’s...

Fine Art Printer of the Year 2015: Push Print
“Fantastic, vibrant and beautiful to behold – a superb body of work and I love every one of these books,” said one of the judges. A Strong, Sweet Smell of Incense – A Portrait of Robert Fraser was one...

Newspaper Printer of the Year 2015: Trinity Mirror Printing (Watford)
The Daily Mirror remains Trinity’s core business, while Trinity is core to this category – its various sites having won it four times. With a nightly print order of around 500,000 copies, requiring at...

FMCG Packaging Printer of the Year 2015: The Sherwood Group
They are short in shelf-life and lower in unit cost, but FMCG goods make complex demands on the likes of Sherwood Group. Print for such goods calls for fast turnarounds and product consistency across...

Cross-media Company of the Year 2015: Cyan Group
Cyan Group supported SPMSD for a Flu Patient Support campaign with a difference: rather than a one-size-fits-all approach to printed materials such as posters, each surgery could choose and...

Social Stationery Printer of the Year 2015: Woodmansterne Publications
“Even we were surprised we could do it that well,” reads the category entry from Woodmansterne Publications, which may or may not suggest surprise from a company that seemingly came from nowhere to...

Out-of-home Printer of the Year 2015: Octink
Eager for the redevelopment of the Battersea Power Station to stand out during construction, the development company turned to Octink to bring to life concepts for the exterior hoarding, signage and...

Report & Accounts Printer of the Year 2015: Park Communications
Annual reports, like the PrintWeek Awards, come around once a year. And, like last year, Park Communications walked away the winner of this category. Was it the complexity of incorporating six...

Marketing Campaign of the Year 2015: DST
DST’s campaign asked customers six key questions, from ‘How can I make my communication stand out?’ to ‘How can I handle all responses effectively?’ to focus on the benefits of integrated...

Industrial Digital Printer of the Year 2015: Gask & Hawley
Gask & Hawley prints and distributes more than 3.8 million bespoke leaflets every three weeks in various formats for one of its clients. The judges were looking for stunning examples of long-run...

Point-of-purchase Printer of the Year 2015: Augustus Martin
While all that glisters is not gold, it definitely was for Augustus Martin, which struck the yellow stuff with entries including L’Oreal Maybelline Glitter, a display for a new product launch for...

Direct Mail Printer of the Year 2015: Geoff Neal Group
This was anything but junk mail. John Lewis tasked Geoff Neal to develop a concept for a joint promotion with Le Creuset for a new Cool Mint range. The mailing, to deliver a promotional magnet,...

Book Printer of the Year 2015: Pureprint Group
Book ‘em. It’s almost criminal, this is the fourth year running Pureprint has scooped a category that to the outside world has little to celebrate. The book sector has been through the mill in recent...

Post-press Company of the Year 2015: Screaming Colour
While entrants to this category may sit at the end of the line, their finishing processes can make all the difference to a print product, adding immeasurable value. London-based Screaming Colour has...