INDUSTRY NEWS
April 2025
Monisha Shah Announced as New PLS Chair
10 APRIL 2025
Publishers’ Licensing Services is delighted to announce that Monisha Shah will become the next PLS Chair, succeeding Rosie Glazebrook, whose term comes to an end on 31 May.
Monisha has extensive experience of chair and board level roles within the creative industries, tech, and legal sectors. She is currently Council Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of UK Research and Innovation, Board Director and Council Member at the Advertising Standards Authority, Chair of the King’s Counsel Appointments Board, and Chair of Wikimedia UK. She is also currently a trustee of the Art Fund and Royal Collection Trust.
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Upcoming Exhibition: The Edwardians: Age of Elegance
8 APRIL 2025
Explore the opulence and glamour of the Edwardian age – the period between the Victorian era and the First World War.
Visitors will learn about the lives and tastes of two of Britain’s most fashionable royal couples – King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, and King George V and Queen Mary – from their family lives and personal collecting to their glittering social circles and spectacular royal events.
More than 300 objects from the Royal Collection will be on display – almost half for the first time – including works by the most renowned contemporary artists of the period, including Carl Fabergé, Frederic Leighton, Edward Burne-Jones, Laurits Tuxen, John Singer Sargent and William Morris. The Edwardians: Age of Elegance: The King's Gallery, Buckingham Palace,
Lost manuscript of Merlin and King Arthur legend read for the first time after centuries hidden inside another book
7 APRIL 2025
An intriguing sequel to the tale of Merlin has sat unseen within the bindings of an Elizabethan deeds register for nearly 400 years. Researchers have finally been able to reveal it with cutting-edge techniques.
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Updates from Leigh Stationers' Academy
4 APRIL 2025
Items this week include:
- A Message from the Principal
- British Science Week: Animal Encounters and Evolutionary Insights
- Young Enterprise Group “Tag a Tail” Advances to London Finals
- Year 9 Options Process: Key Events and Next Steps
- Reminder: Year 11 & 13 Easter Intervention Schedule
- Supporting Year 11 and Year 13 Wellbeing During Exam Season
- Silver Award Reward Trips: Oxygen at the O2
- Caxton College Students Meet the Alpacas
- Dance Extravaganza 2025 Showcases Talent Across Schools
- Weekly Sports Fixtures
- Bexley Music Easter Courses 2025: Orchestral & Keyboard Opportunities
- PSHE Update: Supporting Personal Development Across Years 7-10
- Year 11 Career Opportunities and Post-16 Guidance
FESPA Global Print Expo 2025
3 APRIL 2025
Preparations for the return of FESPA Global Print Expo 2025, European Sign Expo and Personalisation Experience are well underway. We’re thrilled to be back in Berlin for this year’s event with our new strapline ‘Where Visionaries Meet’, which shines a spotlight on our forward-thinking FESPA community.
From the 6 – 9 May 2025, at Messe Berlin, Germany, the co-located events will be a pivotal meeting point for forward thinking Visionaries in the print sector to connect and share their thoughts on the future of the industry; explore current trends; and see an array of new technologies, solutions, media and consumables across specialty print and signage.
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Authors Guild Launches “Human Authored” Certification to Preserve Authenticity in Literature
1 APRIL 2025
AI-generated books are flooding online marketplaces and increasingly look like, and sometimes even read like, human-authored books. The reader may have no way of knowing if a book they come across is AI-generated or authored by a human. The Authors Guild believes that readers have the right to know if a text was written by AI or a human, and that writers should have the ability to distinguish their work in increasingly AI-saturated markets.
Today, the Authors Guild unveils “Human Authored”—a first-of-its-kind official certification system that writers and publishers will be able to use in their books and in marketing to indicate if the text of a book was human-written.
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LOTF Conference – Final Speaker Lineup Announced
1 APRIL 2025
BOSS is delighted to announce the full speaker lineup for the Leaders of the Future Conference on Conflict Resolution and Emotional Intelligence which takes place on the 10th of April at Fellowes Brands in Doncaster. The keynote Nick Saunders will run a dynamic morning session titled 'Connection, Collaboration, Conflict Resolution: Turning Relationships into Results', followed by an afternoon hosted by industry leaders. First delegates will hear from 2024 BOSS Awards Professional of Year Linsey Adams, Reckitt Pro Solutions who will share her career journey to date. Then all will have the chance to partake in workshop sessions run by Leanne Gregg, evo Group, Jonathan Smith, Avery and Darryl Brunt, Fellowes Brands.
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Updates from Leigh Stationer's Academy
28 MARCH 2025
Updates from Leigh Stationer's Academy are now available on the Latest News page of the Academy's website.
Items this week include:
- A Message from the Principal
- LSA Students Uncover Centuries of History at Stationers' Hall
- 2lt Heine Receives Prestigious Lord Lieutenant's Commendation for Outstanding Service
- Year 7 Students Explore Tropical Wonders at Butterfly Gardens
- Year 9 Parents' Evening a Resounding Success
- Year 9 Options Process: Key Events and Next Steps
- Reminder: Year 11 & 13 Easter Intervention Schedule
- LSA Dance Extravaganza 2025: A Showcase for Talent
- Year 10 Maths Feast: LSA Students Achieve 7th Place
- Weekly Sports Fixtures: Year 8 & 9 Netball
- Leigh Stationers' Academy to Host Strive2Score Spring Talent ID Event
- PSHE Update: Supporting Personal Development Across Years 7-10
- Year 11 Career Opportunities and Post-16 Support
- Knowledge Assessments Scheduled for Module 4, Week 6
Warrant 2025 New The Stamford Notebook Company
27 MARCH 2025
Stamford's range of Notebooks, Journals, Diaries and Lifestyle Books have been developed, showcasing traditional skills in quality printing and bookbinding. We print in-house and bind by hand which allows us to offer a complete flexible service to a large appreciating cusstomer base. It has been clear to us that much production for similar products has drifted abroad by brands and publishers seeking lower and lower costs. We insist in using the best quality materials that we can source as locally as possible. Out paper is milled by James Cropper to our specification.
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Warrant 2025 New Contact Originators
26 MARCH 2025
Contact originators were awarded three Warrants for Optimus, Print HQ and Magnaforma.
Optimus™ is a groundbreaking flexographic printing plate technology developed by Contact Originators, designed to optimise ink usage and improve print quality within the corrugated packaging sector. This patent-pending technology integrates advanced studio techniques with tailored plate surface patterns, different plate types, and LED exposures. This combination yields precise and efficient ink laydown with up to 20% savings on ink usage and 10% on ink formulation.
PrintHQ is a transformative digital shim printing technology for the corrugated printing sector, developed by Contact Originators in partnership with AV Flexologic. Recognising inefficiencies in the traditional manual processes of shim mounting and skew checking, Contact Originators designed PrintHQ to address accuracy, traceability, and workflow integration challenges that flexographic printers face.
MagnaForma™ is a groundbreaking innovation by Contact Originators, featuring a world-first design and manufacture of a 2.8m wide mounted multi-piece photopolymer flexographic plate for the corrugated printing industry. This technology was developed to address the longstanding challenge faced by corrugated printers, who have been limited to utilising only 1.9m of their press width, unable to fully capitalise on their equipment’s capabilities.
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Warrant 2025 New Flashes and Flames
25 MARCH 2025
Flashes & Flames is a weekly newsletter for CEOs and senior executives of media companies, primarily in the UK and US. It is different to almost all other media for this audience because it is longform analysis with many of the features being 2-3k words. It has almost 2,000 subscribers. I attach testimonials from some of my readers. The domain is www.flashesandflames.com. It is paywalled but judges can get access by going to the subscription page on the site. Use the coupon code premier to get full acccess free of charge.
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Warrant 2025 New PDQ Print Hub by Haybrooke
24 MARCH 2025
PDQ Print Hub by Haybrooke was developed in response to the evolving needs of the printing industry, where traditional print providers often struggle to compete with online giants. The platform leverages automated pricing technology to streamline print procurement, aiming to empower traditional printers with a modern, competitive solution. PDQ Print Hub enables greater efficiency, transparency, and flexibility, bridging the gap between traditional print providers and the demands of today’s print buying market.
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