Print buying

Grafenia’s share price fell to an all-time low after the PLC warned on its prospects for the full year, despite successfully growing its Brand Partner offering.

Walstead has appointed the former CEO of CirclePrinters as the new head of its Spanish business.

Smurfit Kappa UK has acquired Lowestoft, Suffolk-based Saxon Packaging, for an undisclosed sum.

Web-to-print giant Cimpress will not be increasing the prices of the products it imports to the UK market because of the weak pound – yet.

Stora Enso has appointed Annica Bresky, the current president of Sweden-based manufacturer Iggesund Paperboard, as executive vice-president of its consumer board division.

Latest data for UK advertising shows digital, online and mobile formats have driven record first-half spending, while traditional print remains steady despite decline.

St Ives Clays is already reprinting the Man Booker prize winning book, which for the second year running has been published by independent publisher Oneworld Publications.

An old Farley letterpress proofing press has fetched an astonishing price of more than £4,000 after a bidding war between two buyers on eBay.

Writtle’s interim results have been boosted by the sale of Creo Retail Marketing, and the group now has more than £6m in cash to aid its expansion plans.