Packaging

Polestar is attempting to reassure customers about its future after reports about its parlous financial position appeared in the national press over the weekend.

Prinovis UK has vowed to help improve UK literacy rates by signing the Vision for Literacy Business Pledge 2016.

A folding carton manufacturer is celebrating its 75th anniversary by opening a £600,000 innovation centre packed with new machines.

Polestar has brought in Deloitte to advise on a new financial structure for the group in the face of downgraded forecasts for the performance of the business.

Packaging manufacturer Glossop Cartons has almost doubled the size of its business by acquiring Stockport-based Contact Print and Packaging for an undisclosed sum.

Cosmopolitan magazine has moved from web offset to gravure in its new midi-format, in a move that could have a far-reaching impact if the new size sets a publishing trend.

Bertelsmann is to create Europe’s biggest printing group by putting all its print operations under one umbrella.

Precision Printing has given a huge boost to automation of packaging for photobooks after installing a CMC CartonWrap 500 box-on-demand system.

Polestar owner Sun Capital Partners has put a further £10m into the group by way of new equity.

Brydian Cards expects to double its gift card output to 100 million a year and “put us nearer the big boys” after investing £800,000.