More web offset watching
Another intriguing week in the wicky wacky world of web offset. The two most-read stories on printweek.com over the past seven days relate to the sector, and those tectonic plates I was musing about at...
View ArticleIs this the tipping point for UK web offset?
So. This could be it then. The long-anticipated and much-speculated-about tipping point that triggers a further wave of consolidation that will shape the future of UK Web Offset plc. Now that IPC has...
View ArticleFormidable operator
This industry is sometimes a bit like a merry-go-round. Once people are on they either stay on the ride for life, or they get off for a bit and then get back on again. Some people get on, feel a bit...
View ArticleIntriguing change in banking sentiment
One of the many noteworthy aspects of last week’s Walstead/St Ives web deal is that Walstead is now being financed by Royal Bank of Scotland. Prior to this Walstead’s activities had been funded by the...
View ArticleWelcome words
Take it from me, from a journalist’s point-of-view it can be extremely tricky writing stories about one’s own employer. So. At the risk of putting myself in line for one of Private Eye’s infamous...
View ArticleWeb offset triple-whammy
For a fully-paid up member of the web offset watcher’s society, last week’s deluge of news was really something. The dust has barely begun to settle on the swathe of announcements from the ‘big three’...
View ArticlePower of print tops media podium
Well thank goodness for that. Was beginning to have a high-anxiety feeling that Royal Mail’s next-day stamp printing setup to commemorate Team GB gold medal winners wouldn’t actually be required. The...
View ArticleThis. Really. Is. It.
Right. This. Really. Is. It. Surely we have now definitely reached the tipping point in the UK web offset market. Sir John Madejski has thrown in the towel, after watching circa £100m go down the...
View ArticleSomething old, something new…
What’s the best investment strategy? Buy new kit or make the most of what you’ve got? I noticed with interest that a lively debate on this topic had broken out in the comment trail on our story about...
View ArticleSkin in the game
It is one thing to spend someone else’s money, it’s something else entirely to spend one’s own. Famed investor Warren Buffett is said to have coined the phrase “skin in the game” meaning that a...
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