Receivership & administration

Hatch Print's website is unchanged

Hatch Print trading situation unclear

The UK’s first official vegan print business, Hatch Print, is in liquidation according to Companies House, although a new business is trading under the same name with website and contact details...

RR Flexo had entered a CVA in October 2020. Image: Google Maps

Print businesses sold in pre-pack deals

The pandemic fall out continues to impact the industry as two more print businesses hit the buffers and pre-pack to survive.

WirralCo closed at the end of March. Image: Google Maps

WirralCo in liquidation

Merseyside trade printer WirralCo has gone into liquidation and shut its doors after becoming the latest victim of the pandemic.

Stephen Goodman (right) with former YM group managing director Peter Greaves

Deja vu as YM accounts overdue

YM Group’s accounts are, once again, flagged as overdue at Companies House.

YM fallout continues to dominate headlines in May

Unsurprisingly, this month’s ranking of most read articles was heavily dominated by the fallout from the collapse of the various YM Group companies. And while there was some good news, for example in...

YM Group's accounts should be filed tomorrow

Creditors owed millions by failed YM firms

YM Group owed Pricoa £51m when its three web offset businesses collapsed into administration in March, and while YM’s directors are yet to provide a statement of affairs the initial estimates from...

Gooder would like to find a home for the machines

Italian Job rescue for historic Italian printhouse's presses

Seven antique print machines have been saved from scrap by a print novice after the collapse of an artisanal Tuscan printhouse that included Jodie Foster among its clients.

Pindar Scarborough: five web presses and a big bindery

Industry awaits Walstead decision on what's next for YM web kit

Walstead’s deal to buy at least seven web offset presses from the collapsed YM web division has resulted in feverish industry speculation about what happens next.

Despairing duopoly dominates April’s headlines

You could be forgiven for having a strong sense of Déjà vu when checking out April’s listicle of our most-read stories, although Paragon thankfully managed to shoulder its way into our top 10 to break...

Some of the products produced by Parkers

Label printer goes bust in wake of UPM supply crisis

A long-established UK label printer has gone into administration with supply issues caused by the strike at UPM cited as one of the reasons for its failure.