Print buying

Wyndeham Group owner Walstead has expanded onto the continent – and into gravure printing – with the acquisition of Be Printers' £100m turnover Spanish operations from Bertelsmann.

Digital agency Born Group has appointed Pureprint and Geoff Neal Litho to print and finish Sotheby’s catalogues after it won a multimillion-pound contract to handle the auction house’s catalogue...

GF Smith has put samples of its entire paper range into one book – The Collection – for the first time.

Crawley-based web-to-print and cross-media marketing software developer Infigo Software intends to expand in the UK and North America if it wins business funding from Sir Richard Branson.

Polestar has refinanced with new credit facilities from Barclays and a £90m senior secured loan from Swedish finance house Proventus Capital Partners.

The domino effect continues to ripple across Paperlinx’s European businesses – the group’s Austrian operation has now followed the UK and Benelux into administration.

Wyndeham Group has closed its Wyndeham Gait factory in Grimsby as part of a wider restructure of its sheetfed and web facilities that will involve significant expansion at one site.

It’s been a while since Overmatter has had a nice print-related cake to write about, so thanks goodness for Systematic Print Management, which has saved us from our slough of sponge-deprived despond.

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.