Business Showcase : Quinns theprinters

By @SimonCocking

Describe the company – the elevator pitch …

Bradley Group was founded last year as a vehicle to expand Quinnstheprinters.com into a group of manufacturing and technology companies. Quinnstheprinters.com aims to connect thousands of print and design companies to millions of customers. Quinnsdevelopment is another aspect of the group, it allows our customers to sell online with a fully integrated ‘Job Management System’ and workflow that means all they have to concentrate on is sales and marketing. Now we can add Mannin Print to this mix, the largest commercial printers in the Isle of Man.

How are you different?

We are the largest seller of print online in Ireland with 100% of all of our orders orignating from our website. We have 95% pre-press and artwork handling automation from customer upload to hitting the press. We aim for the first time the print having human interaction to be when the printing operator takes the sheets off the back of the press. We are a technology business that does print rather than the other way round. We currently employ more software developers than we do printers.

Why will the company / product do well?

We offer market leading turnarounds due to our automation and with our multi-site model we are at the door of all of the UK and Ireland.. and the Isle of Man.

Where are you based?

We have facilities in Belfast, Liverpool, Isle of Man and an offshore team in Kaliningrad, Russia.

When was the company launched?

2009

What have been your biggest wins to date?

Increasing our Pre-Press automation from 0 to 95% in the last 24 months saving making our service lightening quick.

What type of people (market segment) are you trying to attract to your product?

We are most definitely in the printing market. Anyone that re-sells, sells, produces, creates, designs, brokers or manages print. Anything print we want to know.

Tell us about your team?

We have a team of 15 staff that cover everything from Software, Sales, Production, Customer Services and HR. We have 80 staff working on our production across the facilities with another 30 expected to join our Liverpool site in the next 3-6 months!

What are you long term plans for your product / company?

Continued expansion with our new factory in Liverpool, our target is for Group turnover of £20 million by end of 2018.

What are your favourite tech gadgets?

I wouldn’t be anywhere without my iPhone 7 Plus.

What tech gadgets do you wish you could use to help you?

We are using a touch screen panel to show customers our new site in Liverpool at our next trade show event, I would love it if this was a VR experience.

How do people get in touch with you?

Find us at quinnstheprinters.com, or Tweet us @Quinnsprint.

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