Industry News

November 2024

Victor Stationery Continues to Expand The UK Trade Team

18 NOVEMBER 2024

Victor Stationery is excited to announce the appointment of Anthony Gouldthrop as the new National Account Manager within the UK Trade Team. With an impressive background and a respected reputation in the office products and education sectors, Anthony joins the team from Spicers, to help drive forward the success of Victor Stationery and its range of educational and commercial products.

The BPIF has published its latest Printing Outlook report

14 NOVEMBER 2024

GROWTH IN OUTPUT AND ORDERS RAMPED UP IN Q3 ALONGSIDE BOOST IN CONFIDENCE – STRONGER GROWTH FORECAST TO HOLD IN Q4

The pace of growth in output and orders picked up in Q3 as the UK’s printing and printed packaging industry benefitted from a previously delayed boost in confidence materialising in the third quarter of 2024.

HEIDELBERG develops the AI-controlled print shop of tomorrow

13 NOVEMBER 2024

20 years of applied digitalization and 5 years of experience with AI
• HEIDELBERG has been networking machines and systems in print shops since 2004
• 13,000 units worldwide are connected to the HEIDELBERG Cloud
• Three-digit million euro amount for digital processes, products and services

Winner - Start-Ups - Perlego

12 NOVEMBER 2024

Perlego is an online subscription library offering learners access to over a million professional and academic titles. Our model is the first and only in the publishing industry to aggregate the majority of global publishers, including renowned names such as Wiley, Taylor & Francis, and Cambridge University Press, under an unlimited, 'all-you-can-read' subscription. This helps break down barriers to affordability, geography, and availability often associated with traditional publishing.

Winner - Product Design - Kolbus Uk Ltd

11 NOVEMBER 2024

The Kolbus AutoBox BX Motion is a next generation, ultimate quick set, short run corrugated box making machine capable of producing digitally printed, inline glued boxes from lightweight to extreme heavy duty corrugated board with optional die cut enhancements

Winner - Education Technology - UCAS

8 NOVEMBER 2024

UCAS, independent charity and the UK’s shared admissions service for higher education, has a core mission to help inspire and empower people to make aspirational choices about their future. Students exploring their options through UCAS now have the ability to virtually experience university and the world of work, via a new strategic collaboration with careers education platform, Springpod.

Winner - Customer Experience - Metaverse Learning Ltd

7 NOVEMBER 2024

Providing an innovative approach to creating new immersive learning content, Metaverse Learning (MVL) is a global leader in the transformation of education, learning and assessment using Extended Reality (ER). This includes Virtual Reality (VR), Virtual Environments (VE) and Augmented Reality (AR).

Demonstrating the potential of print

7 NOVEMBER 2024

This year’s Power of Print seminar focused on the many interesting creative developments in the industry as well as the highly important environmental factors still at play

Winner - Communications including Marketing - Barley Communications

6 NOVEMBER 2024

Barley is an award-winning social purpose communications agency. As of 2022 we have been an employee-owned business, a decision that we made to protect our defining features of flexible and remote working over the long-term.

Winner Business Process Innovation Excellence Awards 2024 - Epic Print for Cuprounds

5 NOVEMBER 2024

The Cupround Project seeks to recover single use cups that are delivered or migrate to home. The aim is to provide a lasting initiative that enables single use cups to be returned to a chain of custody.

NORTHERN STATIONERS YORK VISIT - 1 NOVEMBER 2024

4 NOVEMBER 2024

One of the highlights of the Northern Stationers’ visit to York Minster Palace was a private viewing of the so-called Wicked Bible printed in1631 by the former Master Stationer Robert Barker.

British Journalism Awards shortlist announced