Tockholes, England, United Kingdom
About Educational Printing Services Limited 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. The company made a move to bigger premises in 1993 with factory space of 32,000 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 around 3 million standard and bespoke exercise books a year. As well as 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. 2010 brought with it another move this time to Blackburn where the premises now boasts 48,000 sq. ft and Today, Educational Printing Services Limited promotes its 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.