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Cepac produces corrugated packaging and serves a raft of major clients. Image: Cepac

Cepac initiates redundancy consultation at Darlington as strike impacts

Cepac said ongoing strike action at its Darlington site has forced the business to begin a redundancy consultation, with the potential loss of up to 61 jobs as it accelerates its restructuring plan...

Mail continues to be an effective store footfall driver

Mail effectiveness reaches highest point in a year

JICMail, the joint industry currency for ad mail, has released its data for Q2 2023, which revealed that despite another challenging quarter for UK advertisers, the effectiveness of the mail channel...

Pacapime is based in Halle, Belgium

Saica acquires minority share in Belgian business

Saica Group has reached an agreement to acquire a minority share of Belgian corrugated cardboard company Pacapime.

Andrew Hewitson, CEO: Reproflex3 is looking to grow

Reproflex3 buys Durham platemaker

Reproflex3, the Northumberland pre-press, flexographic platemaker and FMCG packaging printer has acquired ANF, a flexo printing plate manufacturer in County Durham.

Juéry: SpeedSet 1060 will be the fastest printer in its category

Agfa grows inkjet sales in Q2

Sales at Agfa’s Digital Print & Chemicals wing were up nearly 6% in Q2, with the business gearing up for commercial availability of its SpeedSet B1 inkjet press next year.

The Paper division is at the centre of James Cropper’s transformation strategy

James Cropper reports revenue boost but profits fall

Cumbrian paper maker James Cropper has reported a strong recovery in sales in its full-year results, including revenue growth for its Paper division, although its pre-tax profit was down.

Atkinson: "Everything that has contributed to our first-half performance has been about implementing self-help programmes"

Macfarlane pleased with ‘resilient’ first-half

Macfarlane Group has reported on a strong start to the year, with increases in both its sales and pre-tax profit reported in its half-year results.

Mind the (tax) gap

With the cost-of-living crisis placing financial pressures on all of us, many individuals and businesses are looking to develop new sources of income or maximise the income that they already receive.

Striking at the heart of business

Strikes are in vogue and it seems that with every week comes either the threat or the call for strike action. The disputes of the last year or so are less than ideal, but the reality is that they’re...

Pattern generated by Prinfab AI using a prompt

AI is still in its infancy but has huge potential for print

As with any new or emerging technology that is being talked up as the second coming, it can be wise to proceed with caution in its early days, at least until its potential is somewhat proven.