Category: Talking Point

It Has To Be Brilliant calls itself
a ‘pioneering cross-media
production agency’ that does
everything from web design,
digital campaigns, bespoke
photography, illustration and
graphic design through to print
and installation of ‘creative
environments and exhibitions’ as
well as packaging, direct mail,
promotional goods.., oh, and
now it sells cakes…and houses
and… other stuff. Sounds like
diversification gone mad? I put
that exact question directly to
founder and MD Simon Tabelin.

By Lesley Simpson

News of an MBO at North-East-based Simpsons Group came in February. The move saw well-known chairman Mark Simpson and his shareholding brother and sister exit the business formed in 1972 by Bill Simpson. Bill McNally (MD) and John Quinn (finance director) have stayed on to “lead the new management team through a period of transition” but in August the new management team takes over. So how will an MBO affect what was a family business? I asked new commercial director Mark Jerrard.

By Lesley Simpson

The first Pure Digital event will take place in Amsterdam in April. Organised by former Fespa men and InPrint founders Frazer Chesterman and Marcus Timson of FM Brooks, it aims to ‘excite the European creative industry with truly innovative digitally printed applications.’ Great idea, but will it work, and should you be involved? Here’s what Chesterman had to say…

By Lesley Simpson

Are PSPs in the large-format sector likely to flourish in 2018? That very question is being asked in our annual Widthwise poll, but being impatient to provide you with a grassroots point of view going into the new year I asked Signbox MD Mark Bartlett for his take on the situation.

By Lesley Simpson

As a company specialising in all kinds of portable displays, including banner stands, exhibition stands and fabric displays, PrintDesigns knows a thing or two about how important offline marketing remains to companies and to consumers – despite the digital revolution. But co-founder Mark Thompson also expects more integration between the two as he outlines here.