Print buying

Jo Francis wonders what will happen next in the latest saga involving UK web offset printers.

Lecta has reported big increases in revenue and EBITDA but a pre-tax loss from continuing operations in 2021.

A hybrid mail tender worth close to £1m is currently open via the government’s Find a Tender service, with a couple of other large print related tenders also live.

Flint Group’s Commercial Publication Web (CPW) division has announced that it is introducing a monthly surcharge for web offset printers worldwide due to “hyperinflation” of ink costs.

Arc-UK Technologies has moved manufacturing from London to a modern new facility in Dartford where it plans to expand and push forward its ambitions to be carbon neutral.

DS Smith is trading in line with management expectations during its second-half period.

Stora Enso has reported its highest quarterly EBIT in some 20 years and an all-time-high margin in its Q1 results.

A long-established UK label printer has gone into administration with supply issues caused by the strike at UPM cited as one of the reasons for its failure.

Nadine Dorries has said she could intervene on Newsquest’s acquisition of fellow publisher Archant.

UPM has revealed that the strike at its Finnish mills could cost the business as much as €220m (£185m), while its Communication Papers wing is back in the black after “significantly higher sales...