Daren Booth

CPI UK

CPI Group (UK) Ltd is one of the country's leading print groups, employing 900 people across six locations. It manufactures around 160 million books every year, as well as countless journals and commercial print products. The company is a full service provider to the publishing industry, offering design/typesetting, ebook conversion, paper supply, warehousing and distribution. CPI UK comprises two divisions: Trade Books (CPI Books and CPI Books Croydon) and STMA/Colour (CPI Colour, CPI Connect, CPI William Clowes and CPI Antony Rowe). The Trade division produces hardback and paperback books, from one to one million copies, for Trade publishing houses and self-publishers. The STMA/Colour division provides typesetting, printing and distribution services for scientific, technical, medical, academic and journal publishers. Its commercial printing company, CPI Colour, prints brochures, reports and marketing materials for the corporate, design agency and luxury retail markets. CPI Connect specialises in point-of-purchase. CPI UK is part of CPI Group, the largest black and white book printer in Europe with the capacity to manufacture 700 million books each year and employing 3,500 people across 17 plants in six different countries (France, United Kingdom, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain and Czech Republic). The group prints 500 million pages every day and handles 45,000 orders each month. CPI Group includes many of Europe's longest established book manufacturing companies, such as Firmin-Didot in France, Clausen &Bosse in Germany and CPI Books (formerly Mackays) in the UK. CPI works with more than 2,000 publishers across Europe.