News and Views from Mackman

  • Staff Focus: Maria Kelly

    Maria Kelly – Senior Designer Maria joined the graphic design team as senior designer in 2012. She is a highly qualified graphic designer with an innovative background in packaging and print based design. She has a passion for typography, and specialises in branding, packaging and brochures. Her role includes project management, creating and implementing design…

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  • SEO: What’s it all about?

    SEO, or Search Engine Optimisation, is the process of improving the visibility of a website in the organic search results that are returned by a search engine. It’s a constantly evolving process that has to be responsive to all technological advancements set down by search engines. When developed correctly, it can be very rewarding. The…

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  • Internet search data ‘can predict markets’

    Today’s issue of the East Anglian Daily Times reports how Internet search data can be used to predict markets. According to the University of East Anglia and the University of Essex, investors can predict market movements by looking at the frequency of internet keyword searches. According to the paper, researchers have analysed Google search frequency…

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  • Sudbury ‘best place in world’ for family business

    What began as an idea, sparked by the childrens’ arrival home from school over 15 years ago, has now grown into a multi-national successful business. Mackman client, The Sticker Factory, with offices on Walnut Tree Lane in the market town of Sudbury, specialises in the design and selling of motivation products for both the national…

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  • Local family firm celebrates past and future

    On the 26th April, 1962, a fifteen year old boy turned up for his first day at work, with no idea that he would be retiring from the same company, on the same date, fifty years later. Halstead-based precision castings manufacturer, Maycast-Nokes Precision Engineering Ltd, is celebrating this month as a well-respected employee marks a…

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  • Mackman makes the final!

    The team at Mackman is celebrating this week as we’ve made it to the finals of Business In The Community’s (BITC) Pro-Bono Company of the Year 2012 Awards. The winner will be announced at the BITC East of England Awards Gala Dinner on the 19th of June at Hengrave Hall, near Bury St Edmunds. We’re…

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  • Young Citizen honour goes to…

    Stephen Fourie and 18 fellow students from Sudbury Upper School & Arts College took top honours in the fourth annual Sudbury Rotary Young Citizen of the Year Awards. Nominated for the individual awards by Sixth Form Tutor Kathryn Townend, 19-year-old Stephen received the Young Citizen Challenge trophy from last year’s winner, Holly Watson, during the…

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  • Staff Focus: Emil Pitts

    Emil Pitts joined Mackman’s technical team in October 2011. His expertise as a designer and web developer mean that he’s perfectly placed to support the rest of the team in their work designing and implementing digital projects. What’s your working background? Having studied Digital Media at Southampton Solent University, I soon began work with a…

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  • Merry Christmas from all at Mackman

    Dear all, With one week to go until we break for the festive season, I wanted to take the opportunity to wish all our clients, new and old, prospects, and friends a very Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous new year. We’d like to thank all the customers we’ve worked with throughout 2011. The…

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  • Sudbury Christmas Tree Festival now open!

    The popularity of Sudbury’s Christmas Tree Festival just keeps growing. This year a bumper 89 exhibitors have decorated trees for the ninth Festival at St Peter’s Church on Sudbury’s Market Hill. Among those taking part in the festival are 22 local schools, nurseries and playgroups, eight church groups, as well as numerous youth organisations, charities,…

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