Hadley to leave print at month’s end

Hadley has been a Heidelberg man throughout his forty year career in print, starting off as an engineer with Seligson & Clare in Sydney when they had the Heidelberg agency.

He moved into sales in 1979, transferring to Perth, and rose through the ranks to become Heidelberg ANZ sales director in 2004.

He says, “Print has changed tremendously over the years, but never more so than in the last two years, with the onset of the digital media age. However there are still plenty of great opportunities in print for go-ahead businesses.”

Hadley is known for his encyclopaedic knowledge of presses, and his ready wit. With Heidelberg ANZ managing director Andy vels Jensen he formed an irrepressible partnership.

Hadley started in the same year the Heidelberg GTO was launched, he says, “The GTO was the best thing since sliced bread for Australian printers, who took it up in huge numbers, there are still around 1600 operating in the country today.”

On his future Hadley says he will not be involved in commercial print, but has ‘a few irons in a few fires’.

Heidelberg will not replace Hadley, his role will be absorbed by vels Jensen.

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