Print buying
![Syktyvkar employs around 4,500 people](/media/jmpdtp55/mondi-syktyvkar-mill-image-mondi-group.png?width=525&height=525&bgcolor=White&v=1d9f21ed366a340)
Mondi agrees new deal to sell Russian Syktyvkar site
Three months after Mondi withdrew from the agreement to sell its biggest operation in Russia, Syktyvkar, to Augment Investments, the business has now agreed a new sale with a different investor.
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Nix claims colour management revolution with Spectro L
Nix Sensor has launched a “game-changing” spectrophotometer and densitometer it said will empower colour professionals everywhere to transform their colour workflows.
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Varied tender trio currently live
Three new tenders of interest to election printing specialists, magazine printers and paper suppliers, are now live.
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PCS director Louise Ray wins business award
Louise Ray of Precision Card Services (PCS) has been named Marketing and Communications Director of the Year by Acquisition International magazine in its eighth annual Influential Businesswoman...
![Freemans iconic 1,000pp catalogue's last print run was delivered to two million readers](/media/zhadkbl3/freemans-catalogue-photo.jpg?rxy=0.5,0.0&width=525&height=525&bgcolor=White&v=1d9e7235e641830)
Freemans drops printed catalogue after 118 years
After 118 years and over a billion copies printed, online retailer Freemans has stopped presses on its store catalogue.
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Keep track of changing EPR deadlines, printers warned
Deadlines for English packaging converters to submit Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) reports have been changed further, with the government now saying it will not enforce reporting until May...
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Wessex Labels set for liquidation
Food packaging specialist Wessex Labels, which formerly employed around 20 staff, hit trouble during Covid and was placed into administration by its directors in July this year.
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Smurfit Kappa and WestRock agree to merger
Smurfit Kappa and WestRock have now confirmed that they are going to combine to create Smurfit WestRock, a global packaging giant that is expected to deliver “attractive returns for shareholders of...
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Smurfit Kappa and WestRock in merger talks
Packaging giants Smurfit Kappa Group and WestRock, based in Ireland and the US respectively, are discussing a “potential combination” that could lead to the creation of Smurfit WestRock.
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Leeds firms move in to new site together following acquisition
Leeds-based print, direct and digital marketing agency Telescope has acquired local specialist communications agency Clearsilver Brand Marketing, with the two businesses now moving in together to new...