Client Spotlight: Holywell helps prepare high spec Hangar8 brochure for take off!

We don’t have a company jet at Holywell, but if we did (well we can dream!), we know who we’d task with looking after it for us. Headquartered at Oxford Airport, just around the corner from our own offices, our client Hangar8 specialises in chartering, managing and maintaining executive jets, and supplying pilots and air crew to a discerning, international customer base.

With more than thirty jet aircraft based around the world, Hangar 8 is the largest aircraft operator in the UK, one of the top five in Europe, and the only publicly listed business jet operator on the London Stock Exchange.

Hangar8 delivers exceptional levels of service to demanding clientele who have high expectations, and the superior quality of their offering is reflected in all of the businesses online and offline marketing collateral. When they needed to create a corporate brochure for use at an international aviation exhibition, it was essential to carry this through and create an outstanding print piece.


When they approached us, our client already had a stylish design - incorporating beautiful full colour photographic imagery, but needed help and advice on the all-important refinements, materials and finishing touches that would make certain the end result would deliver their corporate message with real impact.


To ensure a truly dramatic first impression, and emphasise the premium nature of the brand, we produced the cover of the A5 brochure on a high quality, 350gsm uncoated material called Colorplan black and foil-blocked the Hangar 8 logo onto it in two colours. The visual effect is simple and striking, conveying far more about the brand than words could ever do.

For the main pages of the brochure, we selected a 200gsm silk card, and in order to really show off the iconic images to their full effect, applied a matt varnish throughout.

To complete the elegant look and feel, the brochure was Perfect Bound in-house on our BQ270 binder; this also enabled the text to be 10 pages - a saddle-stitched brochure would have to be multiples, of 4 pages or include a fold-out leaf.

We also printed business cards for staff representing Hangar8 at the show. In keeping with the understated theme, the business cards also featured a foil-blocked logo, and a selection of the brochure images were reproduced on the reverse.

All in all, this was an Executive Class project if we do say so ourselves!

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