Print buying

Tesco plans to send out Clubcard statements by email rather than post from next month “to help save paper” – although there is an option for customers to opt back in to printed communications.

There was a 19% increase in the number of companies in critical financial distress in the first quarter of 2022, according to new research.

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.

Lecta will increase prices on all of its specialty paper grades by 8% to 10% from next month.

Avery Dennison is making a substantial investment in its European manufacturing capacity with programmes involving a €60m (£50.4m) spend underway.

Smurfit Kappa UK (SKUK) has acquired corrugated packaging provider Atlas Packaging.

Walstead Group has acquired most of the assets of YM Group’s shuttered web offset businesses in administration – and could reboot one of the factories if customer support makes it viable.

Events at troubled YM Group took a dramatic turn over the bank holiday weekend when the landlord repossessed Lettershop’s Leeds site.

Former YM Group sales director Norman Revill has struck out on his own with a new print consultancy.

A fourth member of an organised crime group has been jailed for conspiring to supply more than £12m of counterfeit banknotes.