Finance

Mixed picture for St Ives half-year results
Operating profits from St Ives’ Strategic Marketing business have now grown to 56% of the group’s underlying profit. However costs associated with its string of acquisitions, along with restructuring...

Acquisitions and organic sales growth boost Macfarlane Group revenues
Packaging firm Macfarlane Group has reported a 10% revenue increase in its preliminary full-year results announcement yesterday, citing good organic sales growth and the contribution from recent...

BPIF Outlook reports positive Q4 and Q1 confidence
The BPIF has released its latest Printing Outlook study of the health of the industry, highlighting that output and orders exceeded expectations in Q4 2015 and there is a positive forecast for Q1 2016...

Monitor vital signs to stay fighting fit
Picture the scene. Mrs Print Boss has just opened her copy of PrintWeek’s annual Top 500 survey. She notes her own company’s performance with quiet satisfaction, then realises that a peer and – worse...

Manroland Sheetfed now "efficient business" as improved fortunes continue
Manroland Sheetfed has seen improved results for the fourth consecutive year after owner Langley Holdings transformed it from a “lumbering leviathan” into an “efficient business”.

Xerox split 'optimal' as company sees sales decline
Xerox’s split into two companies is the “optimal path forward” for the company, according to its chief executive, as the company promised “a number of exciting production printing announcements” at...

Flint Group plans Dundee plant closure; 117 jobs at risk
Flint Group is planning to close its Dundee plant and move all manufacturing to the US in response to the "irreversible decline" in printed publications.

Xaar sales 'in line with expectations'
Year-end sales at Xaar are anticipated to be in line with expectations, although its operating margin is likely to fall to around 20%.

Cautious welcome for Apprenticeship Levy
Print professionals have welcomed the Chancellor’s Apprenticeship Levy – so long as it delivers as promised.

Apprenticeship Levy fixed in Autumn Statement
George Osborne plans to raise £3bn per year from the Apprenticeship Levy and has fixed the level at 0.5% of an employer's pay bill.