Trainee of the Year: Stephen Dando, Dayfold

Ten minutes after handing his CV in at its base in Dorset, and Dayfold Print was in touch. Two years later PrintWeek Awards judges are in touch. Stephen started on the cylinder, cutting and creasing,...

Marketing Campaign of the Year: Gemini Print Group

“That’s what marketing is all about,” reckoned the judges. “Fantastic ROI that delivers on the brief.” The Shoreham-by-Sea company wanted to increase the digital printing side of its business by £1m...

Environmental Company of the Year: Nationwide Print

Much changes in this ever-evolving category and Nationwide Print, in St Austell, Cornwall, is pioneering many of those changes. Nationwide has gone from powering its presses with renewable energy and...

Luxury Packaging Printer of the Year: Boss Print

Boss by name, boss by nature: the west London printer lays on the luxury like no other, notching up another impressive performance in this category. “Loved some of the materials choices, and simply...

High-volume Magazine Printer of the Year: Wyndeham Roche

This reconfigured category was won for the first time last year by this year’s winner. Once again Wyndeham Roche produced “a web offset printing masterclass”, according to the judges. Boat...

Brochure Printer of the Year: Pureprint Group

If a picture paints a thousand words, then the highest-quality brochure must speak volumes - the production values on show here are among the highest in print, said the judges.

Direct Mail Printer of the Year: Geoff Neal Group

Our judges have a beef about this one: “All too often direct mail is slurred with the ‘junk mail’ label, yet it can show the true marketing potential of print.” Geoff Neal Group proved it with “a...

Consumers want retailers to address overpacking

Nearly a quarter (24%) of consumers are still opening goods ordered online that are overpacked, according to new research by Macfarlane Packaging.

Custos ups Johnston Press stake to block possible sale

Johnston Press’s largest shareholder has increased its stake in the publishing company from around 20% to more than 25% to “ensure some of the more insane board or adviser actions can be blocked”.

Premier Paper named among 1,000 SMEs 'to inspire Europe'

Premier Paper Group is among 1,000 European SMEs deemed to be “inspirational” for businesses across the continent in a new report from the London Stock Exchange (LSE).

Spandex expands vehicle wrap portfolio

Spandex has rolled out its first chrome film launch as one of four new colours and effects from its 3M 1080 wrap film series of colour-change wrapping vinyls.

Witherbys in for second Speedmaster XL 75

One of the country's oldest printers is taking delivery of its second Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 75 to take advantage of the latest technology in areas such as colour control.