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Behind the scenes at 170-year-old greetings card company with fascinating history
The Star, Sheffield
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25/10/2024
We visited Loxleys in Sheffield to learn more about its remarkable history and meet the people working there.
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One of Sheffield's oldest companies, the printing firm Loxleys, has just celebrated its 170th
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anniversary. We visited the former roller skating rink, where it's based, to find out
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more about its fascinating history.
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So, Loxleys are a specialist greeting card manufacturer. We manufacture greetings cards
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here in Sheffield for various UK publishers, designers and retailers. We were established
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in 1854, and it was our 170th birthday last week.
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And what's your background with the company?
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So, my role nowadays is managing director. I started in the company in 1997 as a trainee
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sales rep, and I've sort of worked my way up through the company in sales, account management,
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marketing, and then sort of commercial positions, but I've always been very sort of forward-facing,
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customer-facing, and out and about visiting clients and things.
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And can you tell us a little bit about how many cards the company would make and where
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they would be stocked?
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Yeah, sure. So, we make around 100 million greetings cards a year. That's a combination
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of everyday cards, birthday cards, Christmas cards, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Father's
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Day, that sort of thing. We don't design our own cards, so we purely manufacture for
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designers and publishers and retailers. So, you'll never really see Loxleys' name on the
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back of the card, but you'll find cards that we've produced in supermarkets, you'll find
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these in card factories, and various retail cards, specialist card retailers.
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I started here in 91, so this is my 33rd year. I'm not the only one. There are quite
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a few of us here that have been here 30 years plus. The best word I would use to describe
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Loxleys is family. A lot of us that still work here, work here because of the people
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that we work with, and family is the biggest word that always springs to mind.
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