Opinion
What will be the next big deal?
M&A has always played a significant role in the commercial print market – used as a strategy to build scale, increase geographical coverage, broaden capabilities or to deliver growth, delivery...
The industry must encourage the next generation of print bosses
It’s well documented that print, like many manufacturing industries, is facing a ticking time-bomb of an ageing workforce and needs to do more to attract younger workers to the sector.
Make the most of social media but don’t forget your IRL connections
Social media is an incredibly polarising topic.
The sector’s evolution continues and we must keep moving forward
As peak season draws to a close for many of you, and you start to reflect on 2024, it’s safe to say it’s been another eventful year for the industry.
Pre-pack sales are here to stay and done right, can be a force for good
It seems insolvency practitioners are trying to give the term ‘pre-pack’ a makeover, instead preferring the wordier ‘SIP 16-compliant sale’ because, funnily enough they think the shorter variant has...
Accentuate the positive and have faith in your ability to succeed
Confidence is critical to the success of any business. But as with so many things in life there are the ‘nice to haves’ we have little influence over and ‘must haves’ we like to think we have absolute...
If you’re buying a new business for Christmas, beware of overindulging
If you’re wondering what the discerning print boss wants for Christmas this year, then reading this issue’s News Digest implies what they really, really want is another print business.
Now is the perfect time to ponder a production-boosting investment
It seems the Drupa excitement is starting to build, certainly among the manufacturer community at least.
Putting people first could remedy print’s age-old issue with old age
For more years than I care to remember we’ve talked about the print industry’s ageing workforce as a ‘ticking time bomb’ that will be our undoing.
It’s time to get a fresh perspective now we’ve got rid of the zombies
If you were to skim through this issue’s news digest, you could be forgiven for thinking the industry is on its last legs – with so many references to insolvencies, cut-backs, overreaches, and a whole...
You can’t please everyone, so focus on what your people want
I suspect becoming embroiled in what many people would dub a ‘woke war’ is not exactly at the top of most print business leaders’ list of things that keep them awake at night. Not with everything else...
U-turn if you need to – there’s no sense sticking with a flawed plan
I’m a little cautious about making references to politics, because, well, as recent calamitous events have proven a lot can happen in a very short space of time.
When times are this tough, it’s important to look after each other
It’s official, the world is, seemingly unstoppably, going to hell in a handcart.
It’s time to focus on the opportunities that lie ahead
Not for the first time, our sideways look at Printweeks past, From the Archive, has got me thinking about the rapid pace of change in our industry.