Nick Steidl focuses on the future as master of The Stationers’ Company

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Nick Steidl has been elected master of the Stationers’ Company and his focus will be on creating a strong future for the livery. His term of office will see the archive moved to a location where it can better display its historical documents. This is just the start to the planned renovation of the hall, which could take two to ten years to fund and complete but it is deemed a vital investment, given the Company’s strategic objective of opening the hall for public access and as a centre of learning.

Education, too, will continue to be keenly promoted as Nick Steidl was instrumental in negotiating the partnership with the Stationers’ Crown Woods Academy, a secondary school which benefits from the time, money and expertise supplied by Liverymen and members of the Company.

‘Look beyond the horizon, not at it; that is great advice. We respect history and pageantry but our focus as a company needs to be on the future,’ said Nick. ‘The BBC called us a think tank and, although not strictly true, it is a good description. We link together people from several different business sectors including paper, print, packaging, digital and hard copy publishing and paper; it is a meeting point and information exchange centre for many key decision makers. The company remains relevant and proactive and I am passionate that this continues and that we have gender balance and represent the UK citizenship generally moving forward.’

Nick succeeds Ian Bennett, the founder and key moving force behind the Digital Media Group who has passionately worked to attract new blood and is close to achieving his target of 100 new members.

Nick’s background is in paper. From 1984 to 2008 he was chairman of Thameside Group, the parent of paper agent HH Pegg. He also holds the Paper Industry Gold Medal.

Nick has been a Liveryman in the Stationers’ Company for 27 years.