Print buying

Packaging expert Lee Carpenter has joined Dayfold Group in a newly-created role.

Documents filed by the administrators of Complete Business Solutions (CBS), which was acquired in a pre-pack deal last month, have revealed the huge sums owed to creditors.

Packaging printer Simply Cartons has used the Packaging Innovations show to reveal it has invested in two new presses from Koenig & Bauer.

Print and paper advocacy group Two Sides has revealed KPM Group as its latest member.

Direct mail specialist Propack has secured a trio of new client wins in the charity sector.

Paper and materials merchant Premier has opened a new stock holding branch in Wellingborough.

Gecko Direct has gone into administration, with its business and assets subsequently acquired by Charlesworth Press.

Elliott Baxter & Company (EBB) has become the exclusive UK stockist for Sappi’s latest paper innovation, Raw, a coated paper that mimics the look and feel of uncoated stocks.

DC Thomson is closing ALL of the Aceville Publications print titles it acquired just four-and-a-half years ago, as part of drastic cutbacks that will see hundreds of jobs go.

Fero has become the newest Certified B Corporation in the UK print sector and claims it is the first in the UK POS industry.