INDUSTRY NEWS
January 2025
Introducing your Sector Champion - Stationery and Greeting Cards and Liveryman Elect Annie Couldrey
9 JANUARY 2025
After leaving school Annie meandered her way through the world of print & marketing for about a decade before starting work for retail stationery stalwart Esmonde Publishing, where she was lucky enough to learn the ropes from Past Master Helen Esmonde, designing and managing own brand ranges for the likes of Liberty, Waterstones & Foyles.
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Highlands Announces Partnership with UPM Raflatac
9 JANUARY 2025
London, UK (8 January 2024) – Highlands is pleased to announce it has been appointed by UPM Raflatac to enhance their sales presence in the UK office products market. This partnership enables Highlands to support UPM Raflatac in delivering their high-quality and innovative office solutions to a broader range of consumers.
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Freeman Christy Burdock launches new exhibition
8 JANUARY 2025
Christy Burdock captures contemporary stories within small communities in Britain, making the mundane and commonplace a source of beauty and interest.
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Event: Alison Baverstock offers a a full day featuring personal experience, professional guidance and publishing know how.
8 JANUARY 2025
Writing a book is apparently the second most common new year’s resolution. And a memoir is high on many people’s list. Here is help. We offer a full day featuring personal experience, professional guidance and publishing know how. Particularly relevant for those with a Forces background/family, but valuable for all. Led by Stationer and publisher Professor Alison Baverstock. Do join us on February 12th 2025. Writing Military Memoirs | National Army Museum
Introducing your Sector Champion - National and Regional Newspapers Past Master Moira Sleight
8 JANUARY 2025
She is a member of the Board of the Society of Editors and of the Board of the London Press Club.
Introducing your Sector Champion - Digital Media & Software Liveryman Neil Barrett
7 JANUARY 2025
Neil has run Enbecom, an IT firm specialising in web technology, for over 20 years. He has also worked extensively with law enforcement in the UK and abroad, particularly in the fields of volunteering and road safety, including spending well over a decade with the European Roads Policing Network. He is also involved with a number of in-person and virtual events, in both presenting and producing roles, having chaired national and international conferences - as well as formal ceremonies - for twenty years, whilst directing live-streamed webcasts on a number of topics.
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Letter from the Editor, Rob Wilding - Young Stationers' Newsletter
2 JANUARY 2025
Please see link to the latest edition of The Stationer
December 2024
SILVER GRAVITY ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES PIONEERING STORYTELLING EXCELLENCE AWARDS FOR 2025
25 DECEMBER 2024
Industry Leader Rose Sandy Launches Ground-Breaking Awards to Celebrate Representative Voices and Inclusive Storytelling Across All Media
LONDON, UK - A transformative initiative in storytelling recognition is set to launch in October 2025 with the inaugural Silver Gravity Story Excellence Awards. Founded by Rose Sandy, former HarperCollins Publishers publisher and international thriller author, these awards will celebrate outstanding achievements in representative storytelling across all formats and platforms.
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2024 marked the 25th anniversary of CityArk, the Medway Council online archives catalogue
23 DECEMBER 2024
2024 marked the 25th anniversary of CityArk, the Medway Council online archives catalogue (cityark.medway.gov.uk) significant as the first UK public sector (and possibly the first UK) piece-level, hierarchical archives catalogue to be published online, preceding the National Archives ProCat (now Discovery) and Essex Record Office’s Seax (now Essex Archives Online).
We look at the 2km of historical documents in Medways Archives
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Liveryman Murray Sale's Company, Hensal is awarded Highly commended in Print Management Company of the Year at IPIA Awards
18 DECEMBER 2024
The IPIA is well known for the high-quality of our conferences, business networking sessions and social events. They were very proud that on December 3rd, at the Crowne Plaza, Stratford-Upon-Avon, they held their Recognising Excellence Awards. It was a day-time Expo and Networking Lunch, followed by their celebrated Gala Dinner and Awards night.
Herbert Walkers invests in the greeting card packaging sector with new Speedmaster XL 106-7+L
11 DECEMBER 2024
With an investment in a new Speedmaster XL 106-7+L, Herbert Walkers has made a further significant step forward in the greeting card and packaging sector. The new machine will improve production and reduce energy consumption, enhancing the company’s green credentials. Herbert Walkers currently have three high-performing HEIDELBERG Speedmaster presses in operation, though they are starting to age. The team recognised that lithographic printing technologies has developed significantly over the last decade, and knew they needed to invest in this new technology.
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