Offering services to the whole printing supply chain, e-com2 is about to hit the printing scene, and with Tyrone Spence at the wheel it is bound to make an impression.
Mr Spence is currently the joint managing director of BCQ, formed seven years ago by the merger of his company Colour Quest with Richard Knowles’ Buckingham Colour. The two met through the BPIF and when Colour Quest’s operation was hit by the Buncefield gas explosion, they exploited the synergy of the two businesses.
‘I am selling back my shareholding in BCQ to Richard Knowles. I now want to set up an advisory and training service to the entire supply chain, including print management companies and other buyers, printers and equipment providers. I am entrepreneurial and feel I need a new challenge and the chance to share my experience and my passion for print as a critical element in a multi media and cross-media business. There is a genuine need for this communication chain to bring understanding between different sectors of our trade,’ said Mr Spence.
Richard Knowles said, ‘The business case for the merger came from the differences between the operations in terms of our equipment, customer base and even management styles. Together we have created a £10m+ and 110 staff business, diversified further into digital and wide format, multimedia, fulfilment and warehousing and have survived the recession in good shape. Just recently we added two new Speedmaster XL presses and additional wide format capacity. Tyrone now recognises that the company needs to move forward under one direction. We all wish him success in his new venture.’
Mr Spence has been in print since leaving school and has been at the helm of the two print businesses for 25 years, he concluded, ‘Print will be a smaller, tidier industry in future and will be dominated by highly industrial and very productive businesses who focus on makeready times, productivity and unit cost. Print management is here to stay because for many companies print buying is a hassle and bringing it back in-house is not cost justifiable. Print will remain important in the multimedia mix although there will be challenges. To get to a meeting I use Google maps, to look up an address my directory is online. But there is a need, and thirst, for print still in many areas and that will remain.’
