We’re proud to announce that the Arden Group has been shortlisted in two categories at this year’s Stockport Business Awards. We’ve been named as a finalist is both the ‘Family Business of the Year’ and the ‘Medium Business of Year’ categories. This recognition comes during a milestone year for the Arden Group, as we mark our 60th anniversary - a...
The Arden Group, which was first launched by two brothers in the cellar of their family home, is celebrating its 60th anniversary. Brothers Frank and Philip Poynter first set up a die-making workshop with just one saw and a workbench in the 10ft-square cellar of their mother’s semi-detached house in Bredbury, Stockport, in 1964. Philip would clock off from a...
The rising stars of the Arden Group have been honoured by the British Print Industry Federation (BPIF) at a prestigious awards ceremony. Six outstanding employees from across our Marple and Redditch sites were recognised at the annual BPIF Summer Event and Awards evening, held in Derby on July 9. The event brings together the brightest talents from across the print...
Arden has once again been recognised for our excellence and innovation, winning two prestigious awards at the Family Business of the Year Awards. We were crowned Manufacturing Family Business of the Year and Family Business of the Year for the North of England and Northern Ireland at the prestigious awards event in London, which celebrate the achievements of family-owned businesses from across the UK...
The Arden Group has been recognised for our commitment to digital innovation. We won the Digital Transformation Award in the North West Family Business Awards, which celebrate the success and accomplishments of family-owned businesses across the region from all industries and sectors. This recognition comes as we celebrate our 60-year anniversary, marking six decades of excellence and innovation in the...
The Arden Group has announced the acquisition of Lasercomb Dies, cementing our position as the largest die-maker in the UK. Lasercomb Dies, which has a die-making and engraving arm, has a manufacturing site in Redditch with a team of around 80 employees, and operations will continue as normal following the take-over. Martin Poynter, Managing Director of the Arden Group, said:...
The Arden Group has been shortlisted in four categories of the North West Family Business Awards. We’ve been named as a finalist in the Digital Transformation, Environmental Sustainability – The Green Award, and Manufacturing categories. Meanwhile our Maintenance Manager Josh Wheeler has been shortlisted in the Employee Excellence category, which recognises individual employees who go the extra mile in their dedication and commitment The North West...
The Arden Group is in the running for a prestigious award after being named as a finalist in the Family Business of the Year Awards. We’ve been shortlisted in the People’s Choice category, and it’s up to the public to vote for their winner. Organised by Family Business United (FBU), the awards celebrate the achievements of family business across the...
Arden Group Managing Director Martin Poynter has been named amongst the prestigious Manufacturer Top 100 roll of honour. The Manufacturer Top 100 list, run by The Manufacturer Magazine, recognises the most dynamic leaders and innovators in the manufacturing sector, representing the very best talent in the industry. Joe Bush, Editor of The Manufacturer and The Manufacturer Top 100 publication said: “It’s been a...
The Arden Group has been shortlisted in two categories of the North West Family Business Awards. We’re in the running for the Manufacturing category, and our very own Leanne Allen, who works in our Customer Service Team, has been announced as a finalist in the Employee of the Year category. The North West Family Business Awards celebrate family businesses across...
The Arden Group is celebrating the success of our apprenticeship programme to mark World Youth Skills Day. Friday, July 15 is World Youth Skills Day – an international campaign from the United Nations to celebrate the importance of equipping young people with the right skills for employment and entrepreneurship. Arden runs a successful apprenticeship programme, particularly within our die-making division, where apprentices...
Arden’s longest serving employee has clocked off for the final time. Tony Hinchcliffe started work at our sister company Arden Dies back in 1971 and after 50 years and 10 months with the company, he’s now embarking on his well-earned retirement. Tony joined Arden aged 15 as a die-making apprentice, back in the early days of the company when our...
Arden is the star of a new advertising campaign to increase technology adoption among businesses in our region. The ‘For The Makers’ campaign has been launched by the Made Smarter Adoption Programme in the North West, which works with small and medium-sized (SME) manufacturers to help adopt Industry 4.0 technologies and digital skills to help boost productivity, drive sustainable growth and create...
The Arden Group is continuing our commitment to green manufacturing after launching a new rubber recycling initiative. We’ve recently introduced a new eco-project in our Rubbering department to re-use off-cuts of rubber sheets that are generated during our die-making manufacturing process. Sarah Poynter, operations manager at Arden Engraving, said: “We’re often asked by customers for rubber to carry out repairs...
The Arden Group is backing National Careers Week by encouraging young people to consider a career in the packaging sector. This week (March 7 – 12) is National Careers Week – an opportunity for young people to consider their future career paths. We’re flying the flag for the packaging industry and promoting the benefits of manufacturing, engineering and technology careers...
The Arden Group has pledged our commitment to the GM Good Employment Charter. We’ve signed up as a supporter of the Charter, which aims to improve wages and employment standards across Greater Manchester. The Charter sets out seven characteristics of good employment, such as secure work and flexible working, and strives to develop diverse, equal and inclusive working conditions for...
Arden Engraving has joined forces with another leading European Engraving firm in a bid to expand our operations across Europe. We've entered into a new partnership with Polish-based Stamp Systems. Arden Engraving, which is part of the Arden Group of companies founded in 1964, manufactures embossing and hot foil stamping tools to some of the largest carton and label manufacturers....
The Arden Group is amongst 60 digital leaders in the North West who now have the vision and the skills to pursue smarter manufacturing through Made Smarter’s innovative Leadership Programme. Five cohorts of managers and directors at SME manufacturing companies, including Arden, have now completed the Made Smarter Leadership Programme through the Lancaster University Management School (LUMS), the University of...
The Arden Group has gone plastic-free – banning plastic in all our external packaging. In our Dies and Engraving divisions, we have completely removed all plastic in our tooling shipments to customers. We've replaced our plastic shipping containers with cardboard and switched from bubble-wrap to card-wrap as part of the organisation’s ongoing commitment to cut our carbon footprint and help...
A talented member of Team Arden has been using his song-writing skills to raise money for charity. Our Production Manager Julian Homer has written and released a charity single in aid of suicide prevention charity Papyrus. Julian has worked at Arden Engraving for more than 20 years, but when he’s not working he can often be found penning and performing...
The Arden Group is advancing its digitalisation journey with the support of four interns from Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). Arden is taking part in the Digital Technology Internship Scheme organised by Made Smarter – a Government funded scheme to support SME manufacturers in the North West to adopt digital technology to drive growth. The four Masters students are working on live projects...
The Arden Group has pledged to support the homeless community in Greater Manchester by donating our old laptops and tablets. We’ve just made our first donation to the Mustard Tree – a poverty and homelessness charity which supports people experiencing homelessness to get their lives back on track. The charity runs a series of creative classes and activities for the...
The Arden Group is once again backing this year’s National Apprenticeship Week amid two apprentice success stories amongst our workforce. This week is National Apprenticeship Week, which runs from February 8-14, and the theme for this year’s event is ‘Build The Future’ which encourages people to consider how apprenticeships can help young people to develop the skills and knowledge required for...
Arden Engraving is backing this year’s Rising Star Awards programme, which is now open for applications. The Rising Star Awards, organised by The Printing Charity, offer grants of up to £1500 to fund training courses or equipment to help support the personal and workplace development of young people working in the UK printing, packaging, paper, publishing and graphic arts sectors....
Manufacturing businesses across the North West have the chance to learn from industry giants in a programme designed to boost productivity across the sector – an initiative the Arden Group have taken part in. ‘Productivity through People’ (PtP), a 10-month programme designed by Lancaster University Management School academics in partnership with industry experts from BAE Systems, Siemens and Rolls-Royce, aims to...
Team Arden have been getting into the festive spirit to raise money for charity. Staff across our Engraving, Dies and Software divisions donned their finest festive knitwear and cheesiest Christmas clobber to take part in our best Christmas outfit competition. We also organised a raffle to help boost the coffers and raised an amazing £576 for The Christie and Cancer...
Arden Engraving is celebrating another landmark moment after achieving a coveted accreditation in recognition of our quality management operations. Arden Engraving Germany has been awarded the ISO 9001:2015 certification, which is an international standard that recognises organisations which have an effective and successful quality management system in place. Our German Engraving division was launched in 2018, and last year relocated...
Arden Engraving has been unveiled as a finalist in the prestigious Solutions Awards 2020. We’re in the running for the ‘Best of the Best’ category in recognition of our science-themed sample pack. The Solutions Awards 2020 are organised by leading media and publishing company Earth Island to recognise the most innovative and creative projects in print and graphic design. Judges...
Arden Engraving is celebrating another success story amongst our workforce after a member of the team was selected for a prestigious Print Futures Award. Jordan Saunders, our Assistant Production Manager, is one of the recipients of the coveted 2020 Print Futures Awards, which aim to support the next generation of talent in the industry. The Print Futures Awards, organised by...
The Arden Group has become the first die-making and engraving company in the UK to achieve a coveted accreditation in recognition of our eco-friendly operations. Arden Dies and Arden Engraving have made history after being certified as an ISO 14001 company. The coveted ISO 14001 accreditation, is an international standard which recognises organisations that have a successful environmental management system...
The Arden Group has demonstrated our support to tackling the Covid-19 crisis by signing the C-19 Business Pledge. The global campaign encourages businesses to join the Coronavirus relief effort by pledging to support their employees, customers and communities through the crisis. More than 250 organisations representing almost three million employees and students have already signed up to the pledge. The...
The Arden Group is playing our part to keep essential businesses within the packaging sector operating during the Covid-19 pandemic. A number of Arden customers across our Dies, Engraving and Software divisions are playing an essential role in the response to the Coronavirus outbreak, so it’s vital we remain operational for those customers. We’ve initiated a series of measures to...
Following the recent developments regarding the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak, the Arden Group would like to reassure all our customers, partners and stakeholders that we are still operational. We have a robust contingency plan in place and will endeavour to continue to provide an effective level of service to customers as the situation develops. The safety and wellbeing of our customers,...
A skilled craftswoman has made history by becoming the first female die-maker at our sister company - Arden Dies. Georgina Daniel, aged 20, is helping to shift the gender balance in the male-dominated manufacturing sector after becoming our first ever female die-maker. Arden Dies manufactures dies and tooling for the packaging sector from our purpose-built factory site in Marple, but...
The Arden Group is backing this year’s National Apprenticeship Week by encouraging more young people to consider a career in the packaging sector. We’re promoting the benefits of manufacturing, engineering and technology careers within the sustainable packaging industry. We’re currently recruiting for apprentices in a range of manufacturing disciplines within our Dies division, and would urge young people to think...
Arden Engraving has unveiled an innovative new product for the luxury label industry. As a leading manufacturer of complex tools and dies for the packaging and label sectors, we’re now proud to be the first in the UK to produce the tooling for 3D Microfoil in a rotary format. Traditionally, 3D Microfoil designs are produced using flatbed tooling, but Arden...
Arden Engraving has produced the dies for an award-winning label used on a luxury rum brand. Label manufacturer The Label Makers have scooped the Label of the Year title at the recent UK Packaging Awards, as well as the Special Effects in Labels and Packaging gong in the Digital Printer Awards 2019, in recognition of their intricately embellished label on...
Twin sisters have proved two heads are better than one after both securing an apprenticeship with Arden. Bethany and Lucy Williams, from Marple Bridge, Stockport, went head to head to apply for a single apprenticeship position at our company headquarters in Marple. But the 17-year-olds both proved to be the perfect match for the office administrator apprentice role and have...
Arden Engraving is hoping to spark the creativity of the luxury packaging market with our new science-themed swatch book. As a leading manufacturer of complex tools and dies for the packaging industry, we have unveiled our brand new sample booklet showcasing our expertise in embossing and hot foil stamping tooling targeted at the carton and label sectors. The sample pack...
Arden Engraving is marking 20 years in the packaging industry with a brand new look. We first launched in 1999 as a manufacturer of complex tools and dies for the packaging sector and now we’ve undergone a major rebrand with a fresh, modern look and a new website. Our formerly green logo has been refreshed in blue and our new...
Arden Engraving has been making an impression on the label sector. As a leading manufacturer of complex tools and dies for the packaging sector, we have supplied embossing and hot foiling stamping tools to the carton industry for two decades. Now we have expanded into the label market - offering advanced rotary and flatbed tooling solutions to some of the...
Arden Engraving has been running some recent foiling tests with Royston Labels, who have been trying out our unique 3D sculptured refraction tooling. We applied extremely high tolerance machining techniques onto flat foil stamping tools to achieve some amazing results for their gin and vodka labels. We also used our lenticular hot foil effects, which allows for the foiled area...
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