News - December 2009

125th anniversary

In recognition of our 125 year anniversary in 2009, the British Print Industry Federation (BPIF) published the following ’60-second interview’ with David Hobbs in their November InPrint magazine. Click here for the full article.

 

Click here for a few fun ‘out takes’ from a celebration evening for staff who have served the company for 25 years or more…

News - July 2009

Wessex Heartbeat winners’ visit (28 July 2009).

We were thrilled to host a visit from Wessex Heartbeat and their 2009 Christmas Card design winners. The eight ‘designers’ were able to see their cards being printed and to take away the souvenir cards ‘hot off the press’. Look out for these cards, which you will find soon on Heartbeat’s website (www.heartbeat.co.uk), as all sales will support the invaluable work that this charity does in supporting the Wessex Cardiac Unit at the Southampton General Hospital.

Tim Richardson and 4-year-old Harley Gibbs with their winning cards Harley Gibbs and Colin Richardson, Hobbs’ Customer Service Manager

Tim Richardson and 4-year-old Harley Gibbs with their winning cards

Harley Gibbs and Colin Richardson (no relation to Tim), Hobbs’ Customer Service Manager

News - February 2009

The investment in people and plant continues….

Staff training and development

We continue to invest heavily in our existing team. In 2008 eight members of staff achieved NVQ level 2 qualifications in Team Leading. We now have another group working towards NVQ level 2 in Performing Manufacturing Operations. We have also run a very successful Key Skills programme and numerous members of staff have either qualified for or are working towards their ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence).

         

Plant and Equipment

January has been an exciting time at Hobbs . At a time when many businesses have been cutting back on investment, we have installed a new SM102 2-colour perfector press from Heidelberg and a second HP Indigo 5000 digital colour press. These two machines provide significant growth in our capacity in both conventional litho and digital colour production.

 

The Heidelberg press was formally started by Bob Heasman and Chris Rooke from The Open University. Our relationship with The Open University goes back to 1988; we have been producing mono and two colour books for them throughout that time.

 

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