Print buying
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Significant increases in mail engagement and effectiveness in Q3
JICMail, the joint industry currency for ad mail, has released its data for Q3 2022, which found there has been a significant increase in the amount of mail UK consumers are reading and looking at and...
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HH sales top £1.5bn
Sales at HH Global have soared past the £1.5bn mark on the back of its string of acquisitions, and profitability at the group is also vastly improved.
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"We’re Europe’s most cost-effective high-volume printer"
Craig Hall, who heads Em De Jong’s UK office, details how the high-volume printer offers the biggest range of formats, produced on the most up-to-date printing presses in the market.
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Labour frontbencher calls for Royal Mail inquiry; strike impact laid bare
Shadow secretary of state for Business and Industrial Strategy Jonathan Reynolds has written to secretary of state for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Grant Shapps to address his “extreme...
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Some eras end while others are reborn in November’s listicle
The month’s list of Printweek’s most read stories is top ‘n’ tailed by a major player calling it a day at its UK operation while another leading light welcomes a new era as it changes hands.
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Premier expands with specialist packaging buy
Premier Paper Group has acquired a specialist packaging and retail display supplier that began life with a £5,000 loan from the Prince’s Trust and now has sales of nearly £20m.
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ESP Group acquired in MBO deal
ESP Group has been acquired in a management buyout (MBO) deal and has ambitious growth plans to be achieved both organically and through acquisition.
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Prinovis news shifts supplier landscape
Continental printers are hoping to pick up work as a result of next year’s closure of Prinovis UK – while Walstead Group expects that many of the products currently printed gravure will transition to...
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Guyenne pushes plastic packaging alternative
Guyenne Papier has teamed up with Sealester to advance the use of its SuniBarrier alternative to plastic packaging.
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Specialist corrugated and cartonboard show to return in 2023
The sixth international exhibition for the corrugated and folding carton industry is set to return in March.