The Sheffield-based printing company has produced 100 pop-up banners promoting Yorkshire’s involvement in the next Tour – ‘The Grand Départ’ takes place on 5-6 July 2014 when stages one and two of the tour will follow routes that visit Leeds, Skipton, Harrogate, York and Ripon, finishing in Sheffield. The banners have been rolled out to tourist information centres across the county, timed to capitalise on the high level of awareness of the event following Chris Froome’s victory in the 2013 outing. They were produced on Evolution’s HP Designjet printer on Innotech banner material. Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme made a flying visit to the UK to launch the campaign with Gary Verity, chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire. Verity said: “Working with Evolution Print and our tourist information centre partners, we can help ensure that visitors right across Yorkshire will be aware of this massive event happening right here next year.” Evolution director Julie Rice described the project as “incredibly exciting”. “As we get closer, more and more people are started to realise how big this will be for Yorkshire and to play a part in its promotion is fantastic for us all at Evolution.” The 2014 Tour will mark the first time the event has visited the north of England. Millions of fans are expected at the roadside, with more than three billion people watching the tour on television worldwide. Evolution director Graham Congreve added: “Stage two finishes about 300 yards from our factory, it’s going to be absolutely fantastic. We’ve all got a passion for cycling here – out of 35 staff at least 20 have bikes and are in the cycle to work scheme.” Stage three of the 2014 Tour will also be in the UK, with the peloton travelling from Cambridge to London. Picture shows, left to right: Verity, Congreve, Rice and Prudhomme....

The Sheffield-based printing company has produced 100 pop-up banners promoting Yorkshire’s involvement in the next Tour – ‘The Grand Départ’ takes place on 5-6 July 2014 when stages one and two of the tour will follow routes that visit Leeds, Skipton, Harrogate, York and Ripon, finishing in Sheffield. The banners have been rolled out to tourist information centres across the county, timed to capitalise on the high level of awareness of the event following Chris Froome’s victory in the 2013 outing. They were produced on Evolution’s HP Designjet printer on Innotech banner material. Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme made a flying visit to the UK to launch the campaign with Gary Verity, chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire. Verity said: “Working with Evolution Print and our tourist information centre partners, we can help ensure that visitors right across Yorkshire will be aware of this massive event happening right here next year.” Evolution director Julie Rice described the project as “incredibly exciting”. “As we get closer, more and more people are started to realise how big this will be for Yorkshire and to play a part in its promotion is fantastic for us all at Evolution.” The 2014 Tour will mark the first time the event has visited the north of England. Millions of fans are expected at the roadside, with more than three billion people watching the tour on television worldwide. Evolution director Graham Congreve added: “Stage two finishes about 300 yards from our factory, it’s going to be absolutely fantastic. We’ve all got a passion for cycling here – out of 35 staff at least 20 have bikes and are in the cycle to work scheme.” Stage three of the 2014 Tour will also be in the UK, with the peloton travelling from Cambridge to London. Picture shows, left to right: Verity, Congreve, Rice and Prudhomme....

It is the Cambridge-based inkjet manufacturer’s sixth year supporting the scheme, which promotes print to students. Xaar director of marketing, Mark Alexander, said: “For the industry to thrive it is vital to attract fresh talent to sustain the relevance of print as a powerful, cost-effective communication medium and industrial manufacturing process.” Richard Moore, programme director for Proskills, the standards-setting body behind PrintIT!, said the initiative was the largest schools-into-industry programme in the UK, but could not rest on its laurels. “The most important thing is for PrintIT! to remain self-funding as there is no government money. Without input from the industry in cash, time and prizes there won’t be a programme. “I don’t think there is another vehicle for doing what this does. Despite being the fifth or sixth largest industry in the country print does not feature heavily with schools and is not at the top of lists in job centres,” added Moore. Yet, he said, more than 140,000 students from nearly 2,000 schools had taken part in PrintIT! since its launch in 2005. This year’s programme prompted 4,000 students from 100 schools to register. He added: “I would like to develop the initiative so it links all the way through to apprenticeships, work placements and university graphic design courses, and where we could follow them on social media like Facebook. “It would be fantastic if we could form partnerships with local printers, who would take on these young people in a mentoring way and stay in touch and help guide them into training and careers.”...

It is the Cambridge-based inkjet manufacturer’s sixth year supporting the scheme, which promotes print to students. Xaar director of marketing, Mark Alexander, said: “For the industry to thrive it is vital to attract fresh talent to sustain the relevance of print as a powerful, cost-effective communication medium and industrial manufacturing process.” Richard Moore, programme director for Proskills, the standards-setting body behind PrintIT!, said the initiative was the largest schools-into-industry programme in the UK, but could not rest on its laurels. “The most important thing is for PrintIT! to remain self-funding as there is no government money. Without input from the industry in cash, time and prizes there won’t be a programme. “I don’t think there is another vehicle for doing what this does. Despite being the fifth or sixth largest industry in the country print does not feature heavily with schools and is not at the top of lists in job centres,” added Moore. Yet, he said, more than 140,000 students from nearly 2,000 schools had taken part in PrintIT! since its launch in 2005. This year’s programme prompted 4,000 students from 100 schools to register. He added: “I would like to develop the initiative so it links all the way through to apprenticeships, work placements and university graphic design courses, and where we could follow them on social media like Facebook. “It would be fantastic if we could form partnerships with local printers, who would take on these young people in a mentoring way and stay in touch and help guide them into training and careers.”...

Andrew Hemmings was director of Trowbridge, Wiltshire-based Cromwell Press from its founding in 1991 until it fell into administration for the first time in 2009. The academic book and journal printer was bought out of administration and renamed Baldwin, where Hemmings took a managerial role, but the business failed again in September 2010. Shortly afterwards, in April 2011 Hemmings was charged with fraud, including obtaining money by deception and false representation, following a police investigation. After a protracted legal process, the former director entered a not guilty plea at Swindon Crown Court in April this year. However last week (22 July) the case was brought back before the court after Hemmings changed his plea and admitted falsifying invoices to the tune of £81,983 on two occasions. The invoices were fraudulently created from Ken Biggs Construction from April 2005 and March 2006. Following the hearing Hemmings was released on bail and the case was adjourned for sentencing on 30 August....