Its first taste of success was as a finalist in the "Nottinghamshire Small Business of the Year" in 1997 and then as runner up in Nottingham's "Lord Mayor's Award for Industry" in 2000 and 2001.

In 2002 and 2003, the Company was included in the Inner City 100, the annual index of the fastest growing companies in the UK's inner city areas, at an awards ceremony hosted each year by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Downing Street.

Also in 2003, the Company won PrintWeek's "Finishing Company of the Year" at an Oscar-style awards ceremony held at London's Grosvenor House, after being commended three times in the previous six years. The judges describing the Company as "a great business, in what is one of the toughest sectors in the industry".