Finance

Printing.com has signed an agreement to help deliver the government-backed Start-Up Loans scheme designed to help young people start a business.

Loans from Funding for Lending Scheme (FLS) users decreased by 2.4bn during the last quarter of 2012, despite 9.5bn withdrawals being made during the period.

Agfa Gevaert has prevailed in its patent infringement lawsuit in the Netherlands against Chinese plate manufacturer Chengdu Xingraphics Co.

Commercial printers that applied to the Enterprise Finance Guarantee (EFG) scheme have received an average of around 90,000 each in government-backed funding.

Pearson announced that it was to book a 150m restructuring expense for 2013 to push online growth as <i>Financial Times</i> digital subscriptions overtook print circulation for the first time.

A senior official at the Bank of England has admitted that the central bank's policies, such as QE and the Funding for Lending scheme (FLS), have not done enough to help small businesses.

The manufacturing sector has been the second biggest beneficiary of the Enterprise Finance Guarantee lending scheme since it was formed, according to BIS figures.

Arjowiggins Graphic is to implement a price increase across its woodfree coated papers from 1 April.

Communisis has announced the release of 20m worth of new shares to help fund growth and restructuring costs.

Metsa Group has said that it expects "no significant price changes" to its uncoated paper, liner and folding boxboard (FBB) expected in the coming months, while coated paper prices are expected to...