Mifair Publishing was founded by Michael Fairley, formerly managing director of the Cowise International Publishing Group ̶ a specialised trade magazine and conference group ̶ prior to its acquisition by Tarsus plc in 1998. Following the acquisition he continued as a consultant to Tarsus in the role of director, strategic development, and subsequently founded the Label Academy, a dedicated technical education and training resource for the label industry.
Managing director and senior editor of Mifair Publishing, Michael Fairley has been writing books, publishing and editing magazines and contributing to international encyclopaedias for almost 40 years. During this period he founded some six international trade magazines and was instrumental in helping to create and build a major key exhibition, conference and publishing group.
Prior to founding the Cowise Group, Michael Fairley worked as a further education lecturer, as deputy head of training at Pira, the Paper, Printing and Packaging Industry Research Association, and as Head of Information Services at the Paper and Paper Products Industry Training Board. He is well known as an international speaker at conferences, seminars, workshops and summits worldwide.
Today, Mifair Publishing publishes or helps to market publications and support services for a number of niche businesses that are involved in education and training publications, trade magazines, the production of specialist encyclopedias, biographical and historical books, strategic and technical consultancy.
An associate company of Mifair Publishing is Labels & Labelling Consultancy which, through Michael Fairley, has been undertaking specialised market and technical strategy projects, writing reports and studies, and contributing to trade magazines worldwide since the early 1980s.
Now semi-retired he works on writing or contributing to encylopedias, education and training publications, as well as researching, writing and publishing books of particular biographical, historical and technical interest.
