Introduction

Imagine a time when life was so certain that when you built a building for your business you were confident enough in the future that you put the name of the business into the very fabric of the building.

This is not a time of mergers and takeovers of globalisation and restructure, this is when life was more local and certain.

There are a number of such buildings around and so this blog is an attempt to record some of them and more importantly a bit of the history of the business which by and large are no longer with us.

If you know something about any of these business please add a comment. You can do this without having to sign up for anything and can be anonomous if you prefer.



Thursday, September 2, 2010

Progress Printing

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This is 118 Albany Street

And that is about all I can tell you about this one. There is a company registered as Progress Print operating in Dunedin trading under the name of Speed Print, which sounds promising except that it was only registered in 1996.
Sadly the print industry is littered with companys that have gone into liquidation and so potentially this slightly altered version of the name is the pheonix that rose from Progress Printing (with the ing) ashes.

The other mention of  Progress Printing I have found is related to a Wellington company but this company also seems to have been a short lived affair before it changed its name, so it seem unlikely it was around long enough to acquire a Dunedin operation much less put its name on a building.

So without some help from you out there this will remain a mystry for now.

The bar that inhabits the building now is very popular with staff and students alike from the university across the road.
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