JOURNAL
OF THE
W O R S H I P F U L C O M PA N Y
OF
S TAT I O N E R S
AND
N E W S PA P E R M A K E R S
STATIONERN S’
EWS
NUMBER 116
Patron: The Archbishop of Canterbury
MARCH 2012
Master: Nigel Stapleton; Upper Warden: Kevin Dewey; Under Warden: Tom Hempenstall
ANCIENT
& MODERN:
Founded in the age of manuscripts, the
Stationers’ Company is pushing the
new frontiers of digital media
and beyond
INSIDE
➤ 21st century Trades of our Guild
➤ Our Foundation: mission to educate
➤ Dickens of a good time!
➤ Inter-livery ski championships
➤ Aladdin’s Cave of iconic images
➤ Inside the Wine Committee
Stationers’ News / Page One
The Trades of our Guild – in the 21st Century
The Industry Group
Founded in the 15th century, the Worshipful Company of
Stationers and (since 1933) Newspaper Makers survives
by keeping up with the times. It has adapted to every invention, from printing to the internet. It aims to provide a service to meet the changing professional needs of its members.
Court Assistant Ian Bennett explains how the Industry
Group helps to serve this purpose.
business opportunities and more efficient social services
This year the Lecture will be in April and will be given by
Sir Christopher Meyer. Sir Christopher is well known as a
very successful diplomat who finished his career as British
Ambassador to the United States – it does not get much bet-
A voice came out of the darkness and said, the Industry Group
– what on earth is that? Once known as the Trade and Industry
Forum, the Industry Group is one of the main committees of
the Stationers’ Company and like the others, it has terms of
reference. Most of what the Group does springs from those
terms. They are rather formal but will serve as a springboard
to greater discussion.
• To work with the Executive to organise and promote
Major Events which are of relevance to Individuals,
Companies and Organisations associated with the
Trades of the Guilds. In other words all Stationers and
their guests.
• To provide a framework to encourage and promote the
development of the Digital Media Group and any similar groups deemed by the Industry Group to be appropriate.
• To further develop the links between the Company and
the Trades of our Guild in the most effective and creative way possible.
All rather dull and “so what?” I hear you cry. Bear with me
as I take each in turn and try to put some explanation, relevance and life into each one.
Major Events. There are three events held each year in
the Hall that are organised and run by the Industry Group.
They are the Annual Lecture normally held in March, the
Summer Forum in June and the Autumn Forum in
November. Each is a major
occasion.
The Annual Lecture is an
opportunity to invite a major
public figure to come and
address the Company and its
guests on a topic of high relevance at that time. In recent
years we have been very fortunate to have people such
as Rupert Murdoch and Sir
Martin Sorrell, whilst in
2011 Martha Lane Fox of
Lastminute.com fame gave
the lecture.
Martha declared that
Britain can have a remarkably
successful digital future if
business, government and
the voluntary sector rise to
the challenge of new information technology. The
whole country would benefit
through cost savings, new
Stationers’ News / Page Two
ter than that. He then spent
six years until 2009 chairing
the
Press
Complaints
Commission before becoming a Liveryman of the
Company. Who better to
come and give the Annual
Lecture with all that is going
on in the Press at present?
The
Summer
and
Autumn Events also concentrate on subjects which
should be of interest to most
Stationers. In November
2011 the Autumn Event
examined the potential
impact in the short and long
term of the iPad and Tablets
and we had a panel of specialists to put their views.
Three of the panellists were
from a company that provides the software used by
media like the Sunday Times and Future magazine. There was,
What is the future of the Roundtables? The answer
as always, plenty of time for questions and comments.
lies very much in the hands of every active Stationer. We need
This year the Summer Forum is being held on Monday, Stationers who are passionate about any particular issue to
18 June and is all about an event of a lifetime – for Londoners in offer to turn that enthusiasm into chairing a Roundtable based
particular – “The London Olympics: The Real Thing or on that subject. The DMG would like to run eight such events
Fool’s Gold?”. The event is very special as it is the first time that a year, all of which will be called Roundtables but need not be
we have held an event jointly with the Worshipful Company of branded DMG. For example, last October Tony Mash ran a
Marketors and the Worshipful Company of Information very successful Procurement Seminar. This event was in the
Technologists. Together we can look at the event through the form of Roundtable discussion and featured senior business
eyes of Marketing, the Infrastructure specialists and of course leaders from companies in the print and publishing supply
ourselves, the owners of Content.
chain that have strong procureA full flyer will be released
ment backgrounds. The speaklater this month but the panel will
ers encompassed procurement
include Rory Sutherland from
in the Campaign Marketing,
Ogilvy who was a star turn at our
Publishing, Print Management,
meeting
last
September.
Printing, Paper Merchanting and
Definitely a date to put into the
Paper industries and the meetdiary as it should be both very
ing was a great success. But it
interesting and great fun. Who
was clearly outside the normal
knows we might even stray into
remit of the DMG.
the garden if Jupiter is in a good
The Industry Group encourmood – or Zeus if you prefer
ages members to come up with
Greek gods!
other meaningful topics which
Digital Media Group. The
might appeal to the traditional
DMG, as it has now become A Seminar on Procurement
Stationers’ interests. So many
known, was launched in
businesses are in turmoil as a
September 2007 with the express
result of the Digital Revolution;
intention of trying to reach out to
we would like to offer opportuthose of our members and potennities where such issues can be
tial members who were involved
discussed in a format that
in Digital Media. The DMG startencourages debate and lends
ed by holding the occasional
itself to smaller numbers. The
meeting on fairly general subjects
average Roundtable attracts
but it quickly became clear that
between 35 and 50 attendees.
there were many topics, of interThe Environment is another
est to a smaller audience, which
area that concerns many
needed to be addressed. It also
Stationers. Court Assistant
became very clear that all
Michael Hancock is leading an
Stationers, not just those directly
initiative on this very important
involved in new digital-based
topic within the Industry Group
businesses, would be affected by A Roundtable on ‘Piracy in the Entertainment Industry’
– but aiming to include memthe ‘Digital Revolution’ and this
bers from every trade and intercalled for a different approach.
est. A meeting of this new Environment Group will be
So the DMG continued to have major meetings such as announced later this year.
Google coming to talk about digitising books and Hewlett
Are there other such topics that you feel passionate about?
Packard discussing the future for digital printing. Alongside these Subjects on which you would like to help lead your fellow
it has pioneered a series of Roundtables. This is a new concept Stationers and their friends towards a better understanding?
for the Stationers’ Company and has a simple mission – to The Industry Group would love to hear from you and work
address the myriad of issues that concern Stationers but which with you to run such an event, in a relaxed Roundtable style
are very specialist and only likely to appeal to a smaller group in with lots of discussion.
each case.
Trade Associations. Lastly we are very conscious of their
Each Roundtable is organised by the DMG but led by a importance and how their members complement so many of
Stationer who has a particular interest in that specific topic. The the interests of the Stationers. They form a very important link
meetings to date have been wide-ranging and have included between us and our industries. The Industry Group is workwebsite creation, social media, WikiLeaks, online liability, web ing actively to improve this relationship. A few weeks ago we
analytics and several legal meetings looking at the protection of held a special lunch attended by representatives of 19 other
intellectual property, piracy and privacy.
trade organisations. We want their members to know about
In addition we have held some social evenings with two vis- our events and encourage them to attend those in which they
its to the Hulton Archive (see page 8), a blind wine tasting and an have a specialist interest.
evening dedicated to networking. We used an outside profesThe Industry Group is very much alive and very
sional to take us through the process of working a large room active but its future success depends on Stationers. We
and learning to recognise a closed couple and an open three- really do need ideas for future events and, ideally, peosome and so on, and how to handle them. Many Stationers who ple willing to host a Roundtable. The Industry Group
recognise the value of networking, particularly at DMG events, will do all the organising – you just have to propose
really enjoyed the experience.
subjects that really matter to you.
Stationers’ News / Page Three
The Stationers’ Foundation
picks young winners
Report: Liveryman Robert Sanger
IN the summer of 2011, the Stationers’
Foundation offered bursaries to ten students to support their Masters degrees.
All these students are graduates and are
now working for their Masters qualifications in their chosen fields. They are all
involved with projects relevant to the
skills and trades that we have represented for over 600 years.
The ten successful recipients were
chosen from a large group of short-listed
applicants. They were interviewed by
members of the Foundation at
Stationers’ Hall. Each student’s Course
Director also sat on the interview panel,
providing useful additional insight into
the candidate’s performance. Liveryman
and Foundation Trustee Sue Pandit coordinated the entire selection process
with great care. Even so it was not an
easy choice. Finally the ten were chosen
and invited to return to Stationers’ Hall
– as winners.
At the New Members’ Evening in
November we were delighted to be able
to welcome the new bursary recipients
to the Stationers’ Company, where they
were presented to the Master and
received their certificates. They have
also all been offered the chance of being
made free of the Company, when they
complete their Masters qualifications.
Some Trustees of the Foundation
have offered to act as mentors to the
bursary holders as they prepare their
projects. The mentors can offer objective assistance and direction with the
students’ research if requested, but no
2011 postgraduate bursary winners
with the Master
Annie Johnson receiving her certificate
from the Master
support can be given, of course, in the
actual projects. If later help is needed in
writing CVs or other assistance in career
direction, however, then the mentors
would be more than happy to offer their
experience in any ways which may be
beneficial.
DR Susan Tank Lesser, the head of
Trusts and Foundations at the
University of the Arts London, praised
the Stationers’ support in a recent letter to Sue Pandit:
“The Stationers’ Foundation
Bursaries play a very important role in
ensuring that talented students are
able to undertake postgraduate study
at our colleges. At a time when fees
are rising and virtually no government
funds are available at postgraduate
level, these Bursaries provide vital
support for students. Tutors are
delighted with the impact that the
bursaries have had for the first two
student recipients, and that, in an economic downturn, both students have
progressed immediately into employment in publishing. Camberwell’s
Conservation tutors are most grateful
for the support offered aspiring young
conservators. The University would
like to thank the Stationers’
Foundation not only for this essential
financial assistance but also for the
invaluable mentoring experiences and
the prestigious association with the
Worshipful Company of Stationers
and Newspaper Makers.”
THE Stationers’ Foundation supports educational awards and programmes at primary, secondary, undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as various welfare
causes. For more information – and to find out how you can help – please see the
‘Foundationer’ newsletter, recently distributed to members, or visit the website:
http://www.stationers.org/about-the-foundation.html
Change of Registrar
AFTER exactly 15 years of wonderful service to the
Company, Bert Abel will step down as Registrar
at the end of March this year, although he will
remain an employee of the Company until
the end of June. The Company hopes to
say goodbye to Bert in style at the
Members’ Lunch in June and we will cover
this in a subsequent edition of Stationers’
News. For now it the time to welcome
Bert’s replacement, Brian Pocknall.
A qualified Accountant, Brian joins the
Company from the Airline industry but has
experience from the ‘not-for-profit’ sector at
Great Ormond Street Hospital and the
Department of Health. He spent the first 19 years of
his career with BT, just across the way in Newgate Street, so,
geographically, joining the Stationers’ Company is like ‘com-
ing home’. Brian lives in Caterham, has two
teenage children and is a life-long cricket fan,
being a Surrey member for over 30 years.
Commenting on his new role, Brian
said, “I remember being taken to see the
Lord Mayor’s Show as a young child and
my parents explained the concept of
Livery Companies to me and I was fascinated by the pageantry and history. When
I worked for BT, I would sometimes take a
lunchtime stroll past Stationers’ Hall
and admire the building. To have the opportunity to work in such a magnificent and
historic setting is a great stroke of luck for me.”
And it’s a great stroke of luck for the
Company too.
William Alden, Clerk
Stationers’ News / Page Four
Inter-Livery Ski Championships 2012 (www.liveryskiing.com)
Skiing Stationers shine on the Slopes
Report: Liveryman Martin Woodhead
THE Stationers’ Company was able to
enter two teams of three apiece for this
year’s Inter-Livery Ski Championships
held in Morzine, France on 20 – 21
January, organised by the Ironmongers’
Company. Captained by Liveryman
Martin Woodhead for the second year
running, both teams put up a creditable
performance, coming 5th overall in the
rankings (subject to final confirmation
of the results) out of 10 companies competing, an improvement on last year’s
7th position. The overall winners were
the Leathersellers’ Company.
The A team comprised Trevor
Fenwick, Oliver Gadsby and Jessie
Woodhead (admitted to the Freedom
just in time for the competition). Jessie
was 3rd overall amongst the ladies
(again subject to confirmation) and our
fastest skier. The B team, comprising
Ian Locks, Rodney Mountford and
Martin Woodhead, won the prestigious
200+ prize, a teddy bear in a snow hat
and waistcoat, for the fastest team of
three clocking 200+ years between
them! Ian Locks both proposed the
prize and donated it and so it was appropriate to also win it. The teddy bear will
soon be proudly on display in the Hall,
and suggestions for names would be
warmly received (see page 12).
Progress!
5th overall out of 10 companies –
up from 7th last year.
The competition consisted of two
runs down the steep Morzine slalom
slope on the Friday evening, followed by
plentiful vin chaud and snacks and a
team dinner. Because of very heavy snow
on Friday evening the grand slalom competition venue on Saturday morning was
changed to one long course and so only
one run was made instead of two. Luckily
neither team had any significant falls and
so respectable times were achieved. A
team is usually four people but only the
three fastest times count and so it was
preferable for all the Stationers to remain
upright, which was somewhat more difficult to achieve after the excellent postcompetition dinner, accompanied by
some rather splendid 2011 vintage
Fenwick sloe vodka.
Younger skiers,
step forward!
Commenting after the event,
Martin Woodhead said: “I would like
to thank my fellow skiers very much
for taking part in the event and for
putting up such a good performance
on behalf of the Company, but I also
take this opportunity to apologise for
the strenuous training programme
beforehand. Despite the weather, it
was again a hugely enjoyable event
and we were pleased to improve on
last year. However, we need some
younger and faster skiers if we are to
beat the Leathersellers, Vintners and
Ironmongers and so anyone keen to
take part next year, please step forward! But the main objective is having fun and we certainly aim to retain
the 200+ prize next year.”
Above: Team A on the left and
Team B on the right
Main photo: Team captain
Martin Woodhead rounding the
last slalom flag
Stationers’ News / Page Five
A CELEBRATION AT STATIONERS’ HALL OF
CHARLES DICKENS IN HIS BICENTENNIAL YEAR
BEYOND EXPECTATIONS
Report: Liveryman Albert Morgan
A Tale of One City: The Lord Mayor, David Wootton, is welcomed by our Master,
Nigel Stapleton, and his wife, Johanna
“IT IS most appropriate for Stationers’
Hall to celebrate Charles Dickens, for
this is the Livery Company most associated with the world of books and publishing for hundreds of years,” said the
Lord Mayor, Alderman David Wootton,
opening the evening’s Bicentenary
Banquet on February 7. Stationers were
honoured by the visit of the Lord Mayor,
sporting a Pickwick tie, while about to
dash down Cheapside to the Mansion
House, to host a reception that included
160 descendants of Charles Dickens.
Liveryman Deborah Akers, organiser for the Livery Committee, in welcoming the Lord Mayor, highlighted the
fact that he is Chairman of the Trustees
of the Charles Dickens Museum, and
hoped that everyone would have a
chance to see the Dickens exhibits on
display in the Ante Room. “The Dickens
Bowl is from our own archives, and
there is the Dickens Chair, the very one
he sat on when writing Pickwick
Papers,” added Deborah.
The formal invitation mentioned
Victorian dress in general but many went
one enthusiastic step further and turned
out as Dickensian characters. There were
bishop’s gaiters and cravats galore, crinolines too. There were more high hats
than you could throw a snowball at.
Mrs Peggotty was observed in deep
conversation with Mr Pickwick in one
corner. Mr Pickwick admitted to a problem in securing a wig from his Lombard
Street wigmaker, who had let him down
at the last minute. “Pray where did you
get your wire-framed spectacles?” asked
Mrs Peggotty. “Ahem,” confided Mr
Pickwick. “Got them on eBay, and the
lenses are perfect too.”
‘
…more high hats
than you could throw
a snowball at
Dress for the winning part: The Artful
Dodger (Liveryman Stuart Behn) and the
elegantly dressed Victorian Pauline
Mullender
Stationers’ News / Page Six
’
Three would-be Miss Havishams set
out to be belles of the ball. There was,
however, only one Pip in sight. Sam
Weller, high hat worn at a rakish angle,
looked resplendent. He claimed to be
the one and only Sam Weller in the Court
Room. But it was the Artful Dodger, gaily
decked out in colourful attire who was
the cock o’ the walk – aka Liveryman
Stuart Behn, who was later awarded the
champagne prize by the Master, Nigel
Stapleton. The prize for the ladies went
to the demurely Victorian dressed
Pauline Mullender. Her rival ladies
affected simpers to catch the eye of the
Master, but it was to no avail.
In the Hall the 182 Liverymen and
guests found a “Dickens For Dinner”
banquet menu awaiting them, selected
from Catherine Dickens’ own cookery
book. The evening’s entertainment was
both talented and varied. First to seal
Our mutual friends The Dickens’ Readers: Richard Morley, Jean Garbutt, Liveryman Keith Hutton
A GRACE FOR
DICKENS
by our Chaplain, the
Venerable David Meara
Two hundred years ago today
Upon a February morn
In Portsmouth, so historians say,
Our greatest novelist was born
Tonight we summon up the ghosts
Of Pickwick, Peggotty and Pip,
And raise our glasses in a toast
To Dickens’ matchless craftsmanship
Bless, Lord, this gastronomic treat,
The food, the wine, the recitation,
And then when we are all replete
A little vocal orchestration
On Dickens’ Bicentennial day
Before this dinner’s quite begun,
We echo Tiny Tim and say
God bless us, Stationers, every one!
No Hard Times
the evening’s theme came the readings
from Dickens’ novels, bringing to life in
our Hall the words of the great man,
delivered with animation, humour and
expression by Liveryman Keith Hutton,
Jean Garbutt and Richard Morley of
Shopfield Productions.
Victorian parlour songs filled the
Hall from members of the Guildhall
School of Music, Elizabeth Desbrulais,
Adam Sullivan and Louisa Lam (piano).
Perhaps the rendering of Come Into The
Garden, Maud from tenor Adam
Sullivan, was of particular nostalgic
delight. However everyone got the
chance to join in Home, Sweet Home.
Stationers’ News / Page Seven
Clearly the diners, including all the gloriously Dickensian-dressed characters,
had great expectations of a fine evening
at Stationers’ Hall.
They were not disappointed.
Pictures: Andrea Lestrange
Lighting: Terence Shapland
Treasure Trove of Iconic Images
Report: Liveryman Pádraig Belton
AN ‘Aladdin’s Cave in a back-street warehouse’ was how Upper Warden Kevin
Dewey described Getty Images’ Hulton
Archive in West London, which an expeditionary party organised by the Stationers’
Digital Media Group visited in midJanuary.
The Archive started life as the Hulton
Picture Library, repository for the iconic
photographs published from 1938 to 1957
in the weekly news magazine, Picture
Post. It was sold in 1957 to the BBC, and
(briefly by way of Brian Deutsch) in 1996
to Getty Images, to be renamed Hulton
Getty. By today it has accumulated 80 million images, picking up historic holdings
like the London Stereoscope Company
(in 1854, one of the world’s first photo
licensing companies). It is now both the
largest working commercial photographic
library in the world and the greatest historic record of the art or craft of photojournalism. Sir Edward Hulton, its
founder, commissioned the V&A’s Charles
Gibbs-Smith to catalogue it, yielding the
world’s first indexing system for images.
Past Master Richard Brewster likened
the library’s magic to the Stationers’ own
archives from earlier centuries, noting
that some 19th century photographs,
newly surfaced in the National Archives,
were first registered for copyright at
Stationers’ Hall. Court Assistant Ian
Bennett called it ‘Mecca in an innocent
looking warehouse’. For Freeman Nicola
Solomon, general secretary of the Society
of Authors, a favourite item was Julia
Margaret Cameron’s portrait of her
Society’s first president, Alfred, Lord
Tennyson. For the curator and that night’s
tour-guide Sarah McDonald, it was a set
of stereoscopic glass negatives from
Niagara Falls in 1859, rediscovered
amidst a new enthusiasm for 3D
technology.
Hosting the visit, Getty Vice President
Matthew Butson called it a ‘pleasure
and privilege’ to receive such an enthusiastic and engaged audience to their cavernous archive, the second of hopefully
many collaborations to come.
LIVERYMAN WITH
A FOOT IN BOTH CAMPS
Gerald Hill is the Livery Representative of the Stationers’ Company.
Here he outlines his role in linking the Court and its decisions and
activities with our members in general
BEING a Livery Representative is a two
way business.
I am an ex officio member of the
Livery Committee and sit on the Court,
feeding back to members of the Company
the deliberations of the Court and the
decisions taken by the Court. But the role
also involves reporting back to the Court
the suggestions and comments made by
our members.
My aim is to promote the role of the
Livery Representative through greater
personal contact with members at our
many meetings and functions throughout
the year. Using the Company website and
blog, I hope to encourage the communication between the Court and Livery. To
this end, I am planning to circulate a questionnaire shortly to all members, which I
would ask you please to fill in and return
to the office at your earliest convenience.
On that personal theme I also wish to
help members with queries they may have
in relation to their membership and the
traditions of the Company. I can then also
Gerald Hill, Livery Representative
convey their views and comments to the
Clerk, should they wish me to do so.
During the coming months, with the
support of Deborah Akers, Livery
Committee Chairman, and Members of
that Committee, we will be encouraging
more Liverymen to participate in the work
of the Company and to contribute to a
‘Members’ Feedback Report’ to be submitted to the Clerk for inclusion in the
Stationers’ News / Page Eight
papers of the Master and Wardens’
Committee and of the Court.
The Company is particularly conscious of the need to attract younger
members, although it is appreciated that
the pressures of today’s business world
bring limitations on the leisure time needed in contributing to our activities and
committee work.
Should anyone wish to contact me,
my details can be found in the Livery List,
on the Company website or obtained
from Mandi Moore, Office and
Membership Manager.
Gerald Hill
Profile: Gerald Hill was Chairman and
Managing Director of Simpson Drewett,
a Magazine Printing Company based in
Richmond, Surrey, until his retirement in
2005. Admitted to the Freedom of the
Company in January 2004 and to the
Livery in June of that year, he was
Honorary Almoner from 2007 to 2010
and appointed Livery Representative
July 2011.
INSIDE THE WINE COMMITTEE
“…another 1,000 bottles of
Champagne before Christmas, please!”
Report: Immediate Past Master Christopher McKane
THE sommelier is hovering. You’ve barely glanced at the wine list, a formidable
tome, but now is the moment of truth.
Everything, particularly the wines you
actually recognise, seems to be tremendously expensive. One of your guests is
having sea bass, another venison stew.
“We’ll have a bottle of house red and one
of white,” you hear yourself saying. But is
there actually a house wine category? If
not, why not? I judge restaurants, and
wine merchants, by the reasonably-priced
wines they seek out, often from less familiar countries and regions, and are confident enough to sell in bulk for what some
of them call “mid-week suppers”.
At Stationers’ Hall we drink a lot of
such wines, but I don’t consider a “house
wine event” to be any less important than
the Civic Dinner. Rather than complicate
the house wine section of the cellar, we
aim to hold a sauvignon and a
chardonnay,
a Bordeaux
and a Burgundy. And we have stuck with
Canard-Duchêne non-vintage as our
house Champagne, and Taylor’s Late
Bottled Vintage as our house Port, both
from Majestic, for several years.
In October the Wine Committee –
Past Master Michael Pelham, Court
Assistants Stephen Enthoven, Ian Bennett
and Liveryman Piers Russell-Cobb – held
a house wine tasting. We weren’t unhappy with any of the current house wines,
but after 18 months or so, it’s nice to ring
the changes a bit. So we set to in the committee room. It wasn’t quite as demanding as the previous tasting, when the
Clerk, then Brigadier Denzil Sharp,
dropped out after the white section (a
mere 32 wines). But it is surprising how
many merchants can send in several
decent wines with a £6 price ceiling.
The new house whites are Gran
Hacienda Sauvignon, from Santa Rita in
Chile, and Les Templiers Chardonnay,
from the Côtes de Thongue, an upand-coming
appellation
in
Languedoc (both supplied by
The Company’s wine cellar
Stationers’ News / Page Nine
Berkmann). The reds are a Burgundy by
Labouré-Roi from Majestic, which is actually the same wine that we have followed
through several vintages and is in a valuefor-money class of its own; and the claret
is Grangeneuve from Charles Taylor.
You should be able to buy them all at
around £6 (we don’t pay VAT) apart from
the Bordeaux, because Taylor is tradeonly. The Canard-Duchêne is a real bargain – Majestic had it before Christmas for
£15 inc VAT.
Last year we drank about 1,000 bottles of Champagne; 996 of house sauvignon, 413 of chardonnay, 1,112 of
Burgundy and 467 of claret – an awful lot
of corks or screwcaps.
Of course it’s great fun being on the
wine committee (there will be a vacancy
next July) and few things give me more
simple pleasure than ringing the corporate sales team at Majestic and saying:
“It’s Christopher McKane from the
Stationers. I think we could manage
another 1,000 bottles of Champagne
before Christmas, please!”
COMPANY NEWS
Honorary Liveryman
and Freeman
18 DECEMBER 2011
PROFESSOR HANS RAUSING KBE
(see page 11)
Cloathed in the Livery
TUESDAY 31 JANUARY 2012
JENNIFER AMANDA BUTCHER
Commercial Partnerships Executive
for Channel 5
Left to right – back row: Alan Ball, Mark Broadbent, Philip Ellaway, Sir Bruce McIntosh,
Andrew Riddoch, Dr Alun Harris, Andrew Fletcher, Jessica Woodhead
Front row: Kate Banks, Elizabeth Davis (Bursary) and Reverend Gregory Platten
MONDAY 16 JANUARY 2012
ALAN BALL
Managing Director
UK & Ireland, Spicers Limited
KATHERINE GAIL BANKS
National Account Manager, Bisilque Visual
Communications Products Ltd
MARK DAVID BROADBENT
Director, Universal Office Products Limited
ELIZABETH CATHERINE DAVIS
Student (Bursary Award Winner)
Jenny Butcher
Admitted to the Freedom
PHILIP THOMAS ELLAWAY
Group Strategy Director,
Vocational Education, City and Guilds
ELIZABETH VIOLET MOSELEY
Senior Vice President, ACCO Brands
ANDREW PETER FLETCHER
Commercial Director,
Chartered Accountants,
Minor Entertainments Limited
PHILLIP EDWARD POWELL
National Archivist
DR ALUN RHYS HARRIS
Journalist/Analyst/Film Maker
ANTHONY THOMAS SMITH
Retired (Machine Manager)
SIR BRUCE WILLIAM MCINTOSH BT
Creative Services Client Director
ROBERT CURTIS HENRY VALE
President, Staples Europe
THE REVEREND GREGORY AUSTIN DAVID PLATTEN
Chaplain, Lincoln College
MONDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2012
ANDREW GEOFFREY WALLACE RIDDOCH
Commissioning Editor,
Wildy & Sons Limited
JESSICA LILY WOODHEAD
Trainee Solicitor, Michael Simkins LLP
FUTURE EVENTS
MARCH 2012
5 Livery Luncheon
19 Freemen’s Association AGM and
Luncheon
19 New Members’ Evening
APRIL
16 Annual Lecture ‘Feral Beasts’ by
Sir Christopher Meyer KCMG
23 Archive Evening – The
Stationers’ Registers Reunited
27 Freemen’s Association
Spectacular Dinner
MAY
2 Charter Dinner
14 Typography & Type Design
Exhibition
18 Livery Committee visit to SS
Great Britain
21 Digital Media Group Event (tbc)
28 Company Golf Day – Woking
Golf Club
JUNE
12 Richard Johnson Service and
Members Luncheon
18 Industry Group Summer Forum
25 Common Hall, Election of
Sheriffs
HAPPY EVENT!
Left to right: Rob Vale, Liz Moseley, Phillip Powell and Tony Smith
Stationers’ News / Page Ten
Giles Fagan, Events Manager in the
Stationers’ Office, and his wife,
Imogen, are celebrating the birth of
their first child, a son called Freddie.
Congratulations!
CONGRATULATIONS!
Stationers’ Honour for
Swedish Packaging Innovator
PROFESSOR Hans Rausing KBE has
been appointed an Honorary Freeman
and Liveryman of the Stationers’
Company in recognition of his development of the Tetra Pak, hailed as the
most important invention in modern
food packaging.
Presenting the award last November
at Professor Rausing’s home in Sussex,
the Master, Nigel Stapleton, cited his
“magnificent contribution to positive
change in the world” – the innovation in
his native Sweden of aseptic containers
that enabled milk and other consumable liquids to have a longer and more
hygienic shelf-life.
Thanking the Master and the
Professor Rausing (L) with the Master
Company for the award, Professor
Rausing said his proudest moments had
been when children in southern Italy
were able to drink fresh milk for the first
time in their lives and when it was discovered that children in Japan had
grown measurably taller after they had
access to fresh milk in Tetra Paks.
The badge of Honorary Freedom
and Livery is the Company’s highest
honour. Other recipients have included
the current Prince
of Wales, Rudyard
Kipling, Prime
Minister Harold
Macmillan and
the original
W H Smith.
Royal Seal of Approval for Liverymen Printers
BARNARD & Westwood, Fine Printers
and Bookbinders, have been awarded
their second Royal Warrant. The first, 25
years ago, was from Her Majesty the
Queen. The new one, announced on
January 1st, is from HRH The Prince of
Wales.
“This is a significant honour for a
niche market firm,” said Chairman and
Liveryman Tom Pindar. “We are proud
to say that, since the first Warrant, we
have consistently served Her Majesty and
other members of the Royal Family
households.”
Barnard & Westwood is a Londonbased family business, founded 90 years
ago. It offers a variety of skills and technology from letterpress and die stamping
to digital printing. “We are the suppliers
of choice for ‘event printing’ and for specialist one-off short-run binding and presentation case-making,” Tom Pindar
explains.
Both the Chairman and the Managing
Director, Austen Kopley, are Liverymen.
The Kopley family have a long connection
with the Stationers’ Company. And it was
Austen’s father, also called Austen, who
secured the firm’s first Royal Warrant.
The 200+ Club – Generous Gesture
Freeman Michael Passmore won the
200+ Club’s first special extra prize of
£1,000 – and promptly donated half his
winnings to the educational work of the
Stationers’ Foundation. The draw took
place at the Freemen’s Association
Christmas Lunch in December.
The 200+ Club aims to give out 51%
of its funds in prizes. The balance is
used to pay for items of long-term benefit to the Company. The Club funded
the stained glass window on the Crush
Landing, the elegant staircase from the
Court Room to the garden and a new
audio-visual system for Company
Congratulations to all
the recent winners:
December 2011
Michael Passmore
Austen Kopley
James Ryman
Maureen Hodgson
Ian Mote
John Dunston
events. Most recently it has added two
extra speakers and an amplifier for the
back of the Hall.
Stationers’ News / Page Eleven
January 2012
Mark Allen
Alexander Boden
Peter Wynn
Robert Bourne
Duncan Spence
February 2012
Alexander Jakes
Noel Osborne
Mandi Moore
Dave Metcalf
Pauline Smith
A MESSAGE FROM
Liveryman Richard Model
– the Company’s City of London Champion
AS a Liveryman of the Stationers’ Company, you are a member
of one of the most prestigious Liveries of the City of London.
You have become a part of the long history of this fine City,
your name recorded in the Archives of the Company and
those of the Guildhall.
As a member, you have shown an interest in the traditions
that go to make up our heritage, the very things that have maintained London as a major world centre for many centuries.
The idea of having a Stationers’ City Champion is to assist
you in developing your interest and opening a wonderful
experience of getting to know your City and helping you enjoy
your membership all the more.
Firstly, it is important to attend the City Briefings and to
take advantage of the many facilities and events that are constantly taking place, from the fun of inter-livery sporting com-
petitions to the splendour of the Lord Mayor’s procession.
Many attractions are either free or of very moderate cost.
There are also clubs and specialist groups for which you are
eligible, which will appeal to almost all interests. When you
take your clients as guests there is much that will impress
them, particularly those from abroad, and that will enhance
your professional prestige in their eyes.
There is also a great deal that you can do for Charity, one
of the main aspects of the Livery movement. Which often
means you can have fun whilst helping others.
For more information either contact me, Richard Model
on e-mail ‘[email protected]’ or the Stationers’ Office
where we will be pleased to advise and help. And do look for
the details of the Briefings and other events in the mailings
that you receive from the Company.
‘Bubbles’ on the Web
A FITTING scoop for the “Journalists’ Church” – The Choir
of St Bride’s Church is proud to be the first adult professional choir, and also the first London church choir, to offer
webcasting of services. With its strong media links, the
Church is appropriately using new broadcast technology to
bring the distinctive and exciting sound of its choir to a
wider audience.
As many of our readers will know from the Stationers’
annual ‘Bubble Service’, St Bride’s Choir is famed for its
versatility. The Anglican choral tradition remains at the
heart of its repertoire, but the singers are equally at home
in operatic excerpts and popular arrangements such as
‘I’m for ever blowing bubbles’. The podcasts are free to
listen to but there is a ‘Donate Now’ button for anyone
who wants to support the work of St Bride’s. You can
listen to the latest services on the website at
www.stbrides.com/webcast
Any Bridge Players?
Please give me a name!
(see Inter-Livery Ski Report – page 5)
IF any Stationers would be interested in playing an occasional
or regular game of Rubber or Chicago Bridge at the Hall,
please do let me know. I feel that this could offer something
new to the Company and the Livery, and perhaps in time we
could expand this to offer regular Duplicate Bridge sessions
open to outsiders as well. Maybe, if the interest is apparent,
we could even offer Bridge classes for beginners.
Whatever your standard, if you would like to be involved,
please do contact me, and I will take this to the next stage.
Liveryman Robert Sanger ([email protected])
S T AT I O N E R S ’ N E W S
H ONORARY E DITOR : Stephen Somerville
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