Print buying

A specialist supplier of card and envelopes set up by a former web offset printer is celebrating after being awarded FSC registration.

HH Global has posted record financial results once more, with its full-year profits up by 11.7% and revenues up by 12.2%.

Kingswood iOptus has been acquired out of administration by Paragon Group after the 23-year-old business hit cashflow problems.

Walstead Group is set to further expand its continental footprint with the acquisition of Austrian printer NP Druck, while separately there are changes afoot at one of the group’s UK sites.

It has been estimated that this weekend’s royal wedding could result in a £1bn boost to the economy – with printers among those cashing in.

Announcing its full year results, Royal Mail Group has said it anticipates a drop-off in letter volume as the new data protection rules stoke business uncertainty.

The Delta Group has gone big – very big – with its first order with EFI, and will begin installing the UK’s first Nozomi C18000 single-pass LED corrugated printer next month.

InnerWorkings, the US-based print management and marketing giant that has a UK subsidiary, is facing legal action from investors once again over alleged financial misreporting.

GD Web Offset and sister company EWO Media have switched to 24/7 working in order to absorb the work previously done on GD’s fire-damaged M4000, and the business has also secured fresh investment.