Two Leamington companies have amalgamated, streamlining the label business for horticultural and other industries in the region.
Caxton Mark and MGI have joined forces to offer "end-to-end" solutions from label design, in-house label manufacturing and providing label applicator equipment. "Instead of companies buying labels from lots of places and they don't work very well on the machinery we're now able to put the equipment and the label and design a whole solution," says Caxton Mark General Manager John Stubbs.
Stubbs says the merger will enable them to better support their customers and grow the business. "We're going to take the concept that we are putting together here locally and apply that to customers further afield. We've got a big presence right around the globe and the same solutions will apply," says Stubbs.
The company has doubled its workforce since talks of the merger began. Currently there are around 60 employees at the Leamington plant. There are also five vacancies in the company and they hope to expand to 100 employees within a year. "We're training up young people. We have a three-year apprenticeship program for print skills and we're giving people careers, not just jobs," says Stubbs. "It's skilled flex-printing pressmen that we're talking about. It's a highly skilled trade. It takes time to learn the trade."
