Print buying

Buying print is not easy. Even with a working knowledge of the complexities of putting ink on paper, there are always going to be trip wires hidden in the shadows.

Falkland Press has expanded its post-press facilities with new die-cutting and folding kit.

Premier Paper is taking on at least 30 former Paperlinx employees after agreeing a deal to acquire its reel paper operations.

Print businesses including Banner Managed Communication, Capita Business Services and Critiqom (formerly Document Outsourcing) are among 37 suppliers to a mammoth new pan-government postal goods and...

Administrators at Deloitte have laid off a further 70 employees at the stricken Paperlinx UK operations.

Adare chief executive Robert Whiteside has described the £60m management buy-out at the business as “truly a watershed moment” for the group, which is back on the acquisition trail.

Paperlinx is exiting Europe altogether. Its Benelux operations have been put into administration with the rest of its European operations described as being in a sale or “realisations process”.

Polestar has changed its capital structure in a move that will allow the group to pay its first dividend since its inception in 1998.

Webmart chief executive Simon Biltcliffe has completed the Marathon des Sables, a six-day ultra-marathon in the Sahara desert billed as the "toughest race on Earth".

One paper manufacturer has already set aside a multimillion-pound provision to cover its likely bad debt with Paperlinx UK.