Companies & suppliers

CVC Capital Partners sells Flint Group to Goldman Sachs and Koch Industries
Flint Group has been sold by its private equity owner, CVC Capital Partners, to a joint venture between Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division (GSMBD) and Koch Equity Development (a subsidiary of...

IFS announced as exclusive UK supplier of Tecnau and LasermaxRoll
Intelligent Finishing Systems (IFS) has been announced as the new exclusive UK supplier of Tecnau and LasermaxRoll equipment, taking over from Friedheim International.

Spandex appointed as master distributor for 3M architectural products
3M has appointed sign and display trade supplier Spandex as sole UK master distributor of its architectural substrates.

Interview: ‘Sell the big idea and then work out how to produce it’
It’s fair to say that Inc Direct isn’t your traditional print business. In fact, according to chief executive Noel Warner, it’s not a print business at all, traditional or otherwise, and to be fair,...

Going viral: using video to highlight your star quality
Dogs chasing deer, David after the dentist and sneezing baby pandas – it doesn’t take a digital genius to realise online video is now (with the latter alone garnering over 190m hits) just a bit...

How to take one for the team
Staff dribbling basketballs, Morris dancing and firing crossbows. Not, you might think, the most conducive activities to getting work done.

Lincolnshire printer rises from the ashes
One year on from a devastating fire that gutted its Lincolnshire factory, Mono-Poly Printers has risen from the ashes of disaster and is now stronger than ever.

Glossop Cartons teams with Nth Degree for AR packaging service
Glossop Cartons has launched an Augmented Reality (AR) service for its packaging customers after teaming up with Hertfordshire-based Nth Degree Imaging.

Partnerships remain popular in 2014
All the rage last year, strategic partnerships between vendors continue to be de rigueur in 2014, it seems.

Canon expands wide-format range with entry-level machines
Canon has expanded its imagePrograf family of large-format printers with two new stripped-down models targeted at inplant and entry-level commercial and franchise print poster applications.