12 December 2016

Regional Board meet to discuss Priorities for Print

The November regional board meeting was held at Precision Printing in Barking. 

BOARD ATTENDEES
Robin Sumner: Romax - Chairman.
Andy Skarpellis: Precision Printing
David Hobbs: Hobbs the Printers
Neil Longridge: Longridge Print
Roger Severn: Aquatint BSC
Steve Hallett: Collyer Repropoint
Vince Brearey: Offset Print and Packaging.

BPIF ATTENDEES
Charles Jarrold, CEO
Bob Davies, Regional Director
Carys Davis, BPIF Public Affairs Advisor
Steve Lee, Membership Development Manager

Bob Davies reported membership in the region had been encouraging in the last three months and that the region was now ahead of the membership income target. Steve Lee discussed the regional and national new member recruitment campaign and confirmed a healthy pipeline for the New Year in the south east. Top HR activities were, long term sickness, TUPE and larger scale redundancy issues.

Carys Davis asked the group to identify the key influencing areas up to the 2020 election. Both EU and domestic priorities were identified:

• BPIF should be the leader in more awareness of renewable energy
• Enforce payment terms
• Pre packs
• VAT
• Legislate against "no fee no win" companies.
• Business rates

The meeting was followed by a tour of Precision Printing.