Print buying
YRG Group acquires Spera to drive growth
Packaging and design specialist YRG Group has acquired Spera and Spera Global to accelerate its growth.
First published hybrid hemp paper book gets London debut
A hybrid hemp paper that is suitable for book publishing and HP Indigo printing is being shown in a published book for the first time at this week’s London Book Fair.
Antalis acquires German packaging group
Antalis has signed an agreement to acquire BB Pack Group in Germany, a packaging distributor specialised in the e-commerce sector.
Paragon buys Williams Lea CCM wing
Paragon Customer Communications has further expanded its offering after snapping up Williams Lea’s three CCM sites in the UK.
Kornit opens a world of possibilities
More than 3D, Kornit’s XDi technology takes creativity, simplicity and business to a new dimension and opens a world of possibilities for print firms.
The surprisingly easy path towards print shop digitisation
For print shops, digitisation can bring major efficiency gains. Done right, it can counteract the increasingly tilted ratio of preparation versus production in print jobs. In procurement, there already...
Smurfit Kappa to exit Russia
Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG) has decided to exit the Russian market.
EDWPS gears up for expansion with new hires
Eight Days a Week Print Solutions (EDWPS) has expanded its team with the appointment of two senior sales leaders who formerly worked at YM Group.
DMG brings Weekend in-house
DMG Media has started printing Weekend in-house after the collapse of YM Group’s web division forced the media group to pull forward its plans to produce the title on its own presses.
March headlines overtaken by YM and paper woes
One topic unsurprisingly dominates March’s round-up of the most-read articles on printweek.com: the lead up to and subsequent administration of YM Group’s web division businesses. A month of bad news...