Educational Printing Services Limited, based in Blackburn, Lancashire, was established in 1975 by Fred Pickering, an ex-school teacher. With a single old style Platen Letterpress and two employees, Fred started a small commercial business in Blackburn’s Whalley Banks producing tickets for local shows and concerts. The company also used to print season tickets and programmes for the Blackburn Rovers Football Club and carry out various other works for Chelsea and Reading Football Clubs. In 1993, the company moved to bigger premises with factory space of 28,000 sq. ft in Great Harwood.

Later Fred and his colleagues started to tour education exhibitions where they had the idea for Exercise Books thus expanding the business. The company at present produces nearly 2 million standard and bespoke exercise books a year. Apart from exercise books, the company also produces other educational resources such as pupil booklets, pupil diaries & planners, school reports etc. that can be personalised to further enhance the school image.

In 2000, Educational Printing Services Limited started publishing for the education sector providing a wide range of teachers’ resources and pupil resources in almost every school subject from foundation to secondary schools.

At the start of 2010, Educational Printing Services Limited moved to new premises in Blackburn occupying 42,000 sq ft. It markets products and services to nearly 30,000 schools nationwide. Customers not only include schools but they also comprise of City Councils, School & Public Library Services, Buying Groups, Wholesalers and Retailers, International Publishers, Office Supply Companies & Stationers. During the past few years there has been a growth in sales through resellers and therefore Educational Printing Services Limited is actively pursuing growth this area.

What we can do for you:

Educational Printing Services Limited is looking to support resellers and help them explore the many benefits of dealing with a diverse product range. As a reseller you will receive a dedicated contact both in the field and at our offices, we now operate a separate team to deal with resellers and it is the team’s responsibility to assist you in providing the following services;

• Dedicated account management
• Training at our premises in Blackburn
• Product advice and know how
• Technical information and advice
• Samples both for yourself and for your customers
• Marketing support
• Quotations

Dealing with our product range has many advantages to your business, besides just being another product or service to add to your portfolio. We provide quality in both our services and in our products that your customers will love and want to re-order year after year. The strengths in our service and our products will ensure your customers keep coming back. To help us achieve this we only use quality materials and we quality control our production here in the UK. We also brand our products with your company details and logo’s to make certain your customers remember who they purchased their goods from.

As a business, you’re here to make a profit in order to stay in business, which is why we have geared our pricing structure to ensure you can make healthy revenue from our products, and with high volume sales, you’ll see it all makes sense.

The main benefits of dealing with us:

• Excellent revenue
• High Volume Sales
• Repeat business
• Your company branding on our products
• Minimal warehouse space required – no need to hold stock
• Delivery to anywhere in the UK, even direct to your customers in plain packaging