Crown Estate Annual Report & Accounts

The Crown Estate is an independent commercial business, created by Act of Parliament. They invest in and manage some of the UK's most important assets and have a diverse portfolio of UK buildings, shoreline, seabed, forestry, agriculture and common land. The business generates valuable revenue for the government and over the last 10 years has contributed £2.6 billion.

This publication is the current Annual Report for the year 2018/19 and is designed by communication and corporate reporting specialists Radley Yeldar.

Size of the report is A4 (297x210mm) portrait and is section sewn. It has a 4pp cover and 120pp text and is printed on our new Creative Print, Diamond which is a 100% Recycled paper and board range, which we launched on World Environment Day last year.

The report is printed using 270gsm for the cover and 120gsm for the text. Creative Print has an antique, tactile surface and is completely uncoated. It has an excellent bulk and good opacity, the 120pp text makes a document with an 11mm spine, as you can see in the above image.

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The report makes excellent use of line illustrations and Creative Print looks great on these pages, with an engaging, tactile feel but printing the solid colours as you can see in the image below, is also no problem

The report is printed offset litho in CMYK plus a pantone special by Park Communications. The colour reproduction is bright and vibrant...

...as you can see in the detail image below

The report has a lovely use of space both for the report section and the accounts.

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The 120gsm text is bulky, so it has a light weight, yet is thick, but flows well and turns nicely in the hand.

Below image shows the beautifully bound section sewn sections...

Creative Print is manufactured by Euler in Germany, which is part of the Koehler Paper Group. The range carries the "Blue Angel" certification. Introduced in 1978, the Blue Angel scheme is the oldest ecolabel in the world, and it covers some 10,000 products in some 80 product categories. The scheme is rigorously policed and gives total credibility to any product that is awarded the label, which I'm sure is just one very good reason that this paper was chosen to print this report on. Below is the credit page which appears in the back of the report which references the Blue Angel accreditation. 

You can see the online version of the report here: 

https://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/en-gb/our-business/2019-annual-report/

The report is printed by Park Communications based in East London, which is one of the major Annual Report printers in the UK and has been a finalist and winner of the Printweek Awards R&A category many times in recent years. Account Director at Park is Suresh Dhul.

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Posted by Justin Hobson 18.05.2020