Finance

Xaar has raised nearly 93% of the gross proceeds required to fund the further expansion of its Huntingdon factory after it received valid acceptances for 8,158,762 new ordinary shares from qualifying...

When chancellor George Osborne put half a million public sector jobs on the line in his Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), he was betting the farm on a recovery.

One of the few positives to have emerged from the recession has been the beneficial impact on UK print of the devalued pound.

Depending on who you talk to, the government's Comprehensive Spending Review, due for publication this week, will either rescue or devastate the UK economy.

Last week's arrival of a new and potentially major supplier of funding in the form of the Rothschild-owned Five Arrows Leasing Group (FALG) could not have come at a better time.

Credit-starved SME printers could be thrown a lifeline following the arrival of a new lender ready to fill the gap between the banks and the sub-prime lenders.

It's never been harder for printers to get finance. If your business is well established, profitable, strong and liquid then you might have an outside chance. But few companies can tick all of those...

Digital print is the future and litho has had its day." If there was ever a statement likely to provoke a fight among readers of this magazine, that would surely be high on the list.

Printers face many hurdles when it comes to accessing capital in the current economic climate, says Jo Francis, but there are banks still lending and ways to improve your business's chances

Ramu Ramanathan investigates into how print companies estimate their costs - and tries to find out if these companies can see a rise in profits with a common sense module