PG LIVE 2022

The Progressive Greetings Exhibition or "PG Live"as it's known, is now open at the Business Design Centre in Islington. Aimed at the greeting card industry, it's open on 7th & 8th June and here's the picture of our stand...

We have a modest stand of 3 metres x 2 metres and we're showing our boards that are especially suitable for greetings cards, including our new PaperWise.

If you are a designer or publisher of greeting cards, please do come along and we look forward to welcoming you - we're on stand 405.

https://www.progressivegreetingslive.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 08.06.2022

Progressive Greetings 2015

Yesterday, the Progressive Greetings Exhibition known as "PG Live" opened at the Business Design Centre in Islington. Aimed purely at the greeting card industry, it's open on 2nd and 3rd June only.

Our modest stand of 3 x 2 metres, displays our boards that are especially suitable for greetings cards and as you can see from the display shown on the stand, we now have quite a few! 

On the stand, we display a wide range of materials from our supplying mills including Cordenons, Reflex (Zanders) and Favini and Euler to name just a few...

We also have on display some sample cards printed on a variety of our materials, by Ricoh. These cards are printed on a Ricoh ProC1900, digital press and the results are excellent.  

Our stand is designed by Vincent Design, who I must thank for their considerable input. Fenner Paper is proud to have been the first paper company to be granted Associate Membership of the Greeting Card Association (GCA), in 2013.

If you are a designer or publisher of greeting cards, please do come along today and we look forward to welcoming you - we're on stand 506.
www.progressivegreetingslive.com

www.greetingcardassociation.org.uk

www.ricoh-europe.com

http://www.vincentdesign.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 03.06.2015

£500 of paper won by Timbergram!

Last week, I wrote about the exhibition stand that we had at PG Live, at the Business Design Centre in Islington. The exhibition is aimed firmly at the greeting card publishers and retail buyers and it was amazing to see over 200 exhibitors showing a diverse range of card designs.

On our stand we had a whole pallet of paper (Colorset, Spring Green) and we ran a competition to guess the number of sheets on the pallet with the closest guess winning £500 worth of paper! We simply asked people who came onto the stand to guess a figure, which they then wrote on the back of a business card and placed in our goldfish bowl. Well this week, we've been busy checking the number of sheets on the pallet - it was a mixture of 350gsm, 270gsm and some 120gsm, some of which was cut to SRA3. I can now reveal, the total number of sheets is 2,242.

Jack from Timbergram guessed the closest number at 2,253, with the next closest guess being 2,225.

Timbergram is a really interesting greetings concept as they are postcards actually printed on wood (cutting out the papermaking process completely!) Manufactured from 3mm birch, the wood cards are screen-printed or engraved and are available in over 500 shops nationwide, including Selfridges, Oliver Bonas, The Conran Shop, together with many small boutique shops and museums and art galleries. They can also be ordered online and be produced with custom messages. http://timbergram.com/

The Timbergram was inspired by the original wooden postcards of the early 1900′s and is as much of a gift as a greetings card. They use sustainably sourced wood from forests in Eastern Europe and the timber is FSC certified. The range covers all occasions, and is designed and produced in the UK.

Maybe with his recent win, Jack will have to move things on a little further and start using some paper! Congratulations to Jack.

http://timbergram.com/
www.progressivegreetingslive.com

www.greetingcardassociation.org.uk

Posted by Justin Hobson 23.05.2014

Greetings on Rib-Tone

Last week, I wrote about the Fenner Paper stand at PG Live (Progressive Greetings Exhibition) which gave us an opportunity to show our range of boards to the greeting card industry.

During the exhibition, I had a wander round and visited the 'Springboard' section; this is where first time exhibitors and up and coming publishers show their designs. I was walking through and spotted some lovely cards on a brown ribbed material. I stopped and had a nice chat with Vanessa Bowerman who is the person behind the publishing imprint 'Your Lifetile'

Sure enough, I was delighted to discover that her Mantastic range is all printed on our Rib-Tone [2 sided] 340gsm! Vanessa runs her own design company in Cardiff and started creating framed gifts and handmade cards a few years ago in her spare time.

Vanessa now publishes a range of cards and this was her first 'trade' show and she was very happy with the response from the retail card buyers visiting the show.

The cards are digitally printed on an HP Indigo Press by specialist greeting card printers, The Imaging Centre.

...and with Father's Day coming up on June 15th, what better time is there than to look at a manly range such as this!

http://www.yourlifetile.com/shop?category=Mantastic
www.yourlifetile.com
www.theimagingcentre.co.uk
www.progressivegreetingslive.com

Posted by Justin Hobson 20.05.2014

Progressive Greetings 2014

Today, the Progressive Greetings Exhibition or "PG Live",as it's known, opens at the Business Design Centre in Islington. Aimed at the greeting card industry, it's open on 13th &14th May and here's the picture of our stand...

Our modest stand of 3 x 2 metres, features a whole pallet of paper and displays our boards that are especially suitable for greetings cards and as you can see from the display below, we now have quite a few!  Fenner Paper is proud to have been the first paper company to be granted Associate Membership of the Greeting Card Association (GCA), in 2013.

Our stand is designed by Vincent Design and also features a 'guess the number of sheets on the pallet' competition with the closest guess winning £500 worth of paper!

 

If you are a designer or publisher of greeting cards, please do come along and we look forward to welcoming you - we're on stand 506.

www.progressivegreetingslive.com

www.greetingcardassociation.org.uk
http://www.vincentdesign.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 13.05.2014

Progressive Greetings 2013

Here's some pretty exciting news from Fenner Paper - we're exhibiting at our first 'trade show' at an exhibition called Progressive Greetings or "PG Live" as it's known. It's a show aimed at the greeting card industry and is is being held at the Business Design Centre in Islington on the 14th &15th May and here's the picture of our stand which I was helping to set up today.

 

We have a modest little stand of 3metres x 2 metres and we're showing our boards that are especially suitable for greetings cards and as you can see from the display below, we now have quite a few!

 

...as well as an AV presentation showing the way that our paper is stored, packed and blank cards are converted, we also took along a whole pallet of paper (...one of our new ranges, but more about that some other time!).

Our stand is designed by Vincent Design and thanks to Nick and Claire for all their help and support. If you are a designer or publisher of greeting cards, please do come along and we look forward to welcoming you - we're on stand 663.

www.progressivegreetingslive.com
http://www.vincentdesign.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 13.05.2013