Services

• Book Production

  Competitive and high quality production services for the widest range of conventional and novelty bookwork.

• Outsourcing Solutions

  Outsourcing to Imago allows you to tap into 25 years of knowledge and experience without the associated overheads.

• Product Sourcing

  A dedicated team to source the right components and materials, project manage and monitor quality and safety.

• Training & Consultancy

  Imago host a broad range of courses developed specifically for publishing staff, run by industry experts.

• Colour Reproduction

  Access to cutting edge pre-press services including high quality digital and CTP wet proofing from two of Asia’s leading repro houses.

• Product Development

  We work together with you to transform your ideas into reality and offer creative solutions to production challenges.

• Freight Management

  Global freight services, co-ordinating the timely collection and safe delivery of your goods to any port or warehouse.

Ethics & Values

Imago is committed to ensuring that the items we produce are manufactured in factories which operate ethically and responsibly, and in 2003 was the prime mover in setting up the prelims initiative (Publishers Resolution for Ethical International Manufacturing Standards).

The companies involved in prelims work to promote and implement a common internationally-recognised social accountability standard, to which they themselves and their suppliers must adhere. The standard covers all areas relating to working conditions, including health and safety issues, adequate remuneration, working hours, and the prohibition of the use of child or forced labour. Called the CARE Process, it is the standard used by the global toy industry and is managed by their industry body, the International Council of Toy Industries (ICTI).

Companies signing the prelims resolution are pledged to require that their suppliers achieve the standards necessary to be awarded the CARE Process Seal of Approval, and then demonstrate that they are maintaining that standard through a system of regular independent audits carried out by international audit companies. Prelims is endorsed by the Publishers Association, and signatories include Anova, Bloomsbury, Chronicle, Dorling Kindersley, Egmont, Faber & Faber, HarperCollins, Hodder Headline, Imago, Oxford University Press, Pan Macmillan, Pearson, Penguin, Random House, Templar, Simon & Schuster UK, Usborne, Walker Books and Watts.

For more information on the prelims initiative and the (ICTI) CARE process go to:

• Prelims »
• Toy-icti »

 

Ethical Paper Sourcing - PREPS

 
Imago is a founding member of PREPS - a joint initiative from ten of the UK's leading publishers to capture information about the papers they are using . Together these companies have set up a database to hold technical specifications and details of the pulps and forest sources for each of the papers.

Based on this information each paper is awarded a grade of 1-5 stars using the Egmont Grading System ©. This considers whether material has been legally harvested (or recycled) and how the forest sources have been managed.

The PREPS secretariat, run by the Corporate Responsibility Consultancy Acona Ltd, approaches paper mills directly to gather the information on behalf of the members.   PREPS members are able to share this information with each other and use it to help aid their buying decisions.

For more information about PREPS go to :

• Preps »

To view Imago's Social Accountability and Paper Sourcing policies please go to :

• Imago's Social Accountability & Paper Sourcing Policies »

   

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