INDUSTRY NEWS

Introducing your Sector Champion - Packaging Liveryman Roy Dixon

15 JANUARY 2025

Roy has spent most of his career in packaging and print. He originally trained as an industrial artist, Roy grew a beard and worked as a technical illustrator for an aircraft manufacturer. Next, he joined Gillette Industries and became a packaging and product designer before moving, now very clean-shaven, to the magic world of Marks & Spencer.

Introducing your Sector Champion - Office Products and Supplies, Court Assistant Mike James

15 JANUARY 2025

Mike James has spent almost 45 years in the Office Products Industry in various roles and since 2008 as a Non Executive Director and Consultant. He joined The Stationers Company over 20 years ago and has been a Court Assistant since 2013, and remains passionate about not only The Company but the future of the OP sector. He received The BOSS ( Trade Association) highest honour “The outstanding achievement “award in 2017.

Introducing your Sector Champion - Education Court Assistant Sue Pandit

14 JANUARY 2025

Sue retired in 2010 after working in higher education for 24 years. She was the Dean of the School of Printing and Publishing at the London College of Communication (University of the Arts, London) and previously the Head of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies at Oxford Brookes University.

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.

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.

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.

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 12^th 2025. Writing Military Memoirs | National Army Museum

Introducing your Sector Champion - National and Regional Newspapers Past Master Moira Sleight

8 JANUARY 2025

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.

Letter from the Editor, Rob Wilding - Young Stationers' Newsletter

2 JANUARY 2025

Please see link to the latest edition of The Stationer 

https://thestationer.substack.com/

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.

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