Category: Talking Point

At the start of the year Fespa UK embarked on a series of Next Generation Networking Days for the print industry’s 18-30-year-olds, and subsequently formed a youth committee. So what are the expected ramifications for the sector’s youth, their employers and the industry at large?

If you don’t know Olga Munroe it’s time you did. She became chair of the BPIF POS Display Group this autumn, where she is likely to make a real impact given her various professional guises, not least as head of the Retail Institute. So, what is she bringing to the table, and what does she hope you’ll put on it?

At the World Out of Home Organization’s Global Congress in Toronto earlier this year, a speaker told delegates this could be a new golden age for classic (print) out-of-home (OOH) advertising. So, what does the association’s president think of the claim?

This summer Solopress took on Phil Foster as head of business development, a new role for the £32m turnover company (estimated sales for 2022), which expects to further expand its payroll, kit list and business premises within the year. I asked MD Simon Cooper about the decision to create this new role, and whether we’re likely to see many more PSPs follow suit as they continue to diversify.

Earlier this year British Business Investments announced an additional £15m commitment to Compass Business Finance, taking its total commitment to £30m – the intention being to increase the flow of funding for asset finance products into UK-based smaller businesses operating in the print, packaging and manufacturing sectors. So who is asking for the money, are they getting it, and is this conversation more, or less, likely to make you apply too?