November 2007 • Vol 3 • Issue 11
4 From the Top
8 Upfront
Questions, answers and statistics from around the world of print
12 Books
BPIF's Marcus Clifford opens the pages of the business book he recommends everyone should read
13 Supply chain
How KHL, a small publisher, is deriving big benefits from Garnet Dickinson's investment in Agfa's Delano Technology
16 Finance
The time to prepare for a sale of your business is when its doing well, not when its too late
THREE OF A KIND
18 Local authority print
The inplant operation is dead. Instead inhouse print for councils is being supplied by an increasingly sophisticated range of businesses going beyond ink and paper
COVER STORY
24 The last newspaper plant
Ian McDonald has led the planning for a
£650 million investment in newspaper printing facilities for News International.
It could be the last investment of this size, he says
30 Second time around
Michael Johnson has committed himself to another term leading the BPIF and on the agenda is creation of a world printing industries federation
HIGH STREET PRINT
32 High street printers move out
Whatever happened to the friendly printer who was a fixture of every town? We look at what's happening on or off the high street
33 Alphagraphics
The changing face of the traditional franchise operation
34 The ink shop
The Scots company that is looking south through the franchise route
36 Printing.com
The franchise print model where the shops have no presses
38 Vistaprint
The US invader is an internet only business that is expanding fast
40 Prontaprint
How print is just one of the business services on offer
42 Small is beautiful and is effective
How Healeys has built a strong business by staying focused on B3 print
44 Well placed for growth
Howard Hunt is a web offset business where innovation and location have provided the draw for customers
48 No standing still in Wales
Stephens & George has this year been fine tuning its offer to customers with good effect
52 Future looks up for Dutch giant
After a year waiting to be taken over the RotoSmeets web and gravure group is taking its fate in its own hands
56 Winning business with sponsorship
A growing number of companies are using sports sponsorship to create an image and a powerful and effective marketing tool
62 Future is in envelopes
Earlier this year the future looked bleak for BABS, but a takeover by mailing equipment specialist PFE is breathing new life into the company
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