Print buying

Premier Paper is taking on at least 30 former Paperlinx employees after agreeing a deal to acquire its reel paper operations.

Print businesses including Banner Managed Communication, Capita Business Services and Critiqom (formerly Document Outsourcing) are among 37 suppliers to a mammoth new pan-government postal goods and...

Administrators at Deloitte have laid off a further 70 employees at the stricken Paperlinx UK operations.

Adare chief executive Robert Whiteside has described the £60m management buy-out at the business as “truly a watershed moment” for the group, which is back on the acquisition trail.

Paperlinx is exiting Europe altogether. Its Benelux operations have been put into administration with the rest of its European operations described as being in a sale or “realisations process”.

Polestar has changed its capital structure in a move that will allow the group to pay its first dividend since its inception in 1998.

Webmart chief executive Simon Biltcliffe has completed the Marathon des Sables, a six-day ultra-marathon in the Sahara desert billed as the "toughest race on Earth".

One paper manufacturer has already set aside a multimillion-pound provision to cover its likely bad debt with Paperlinx UK.

A restructure of CPI Group’s UK operations has resulted in the departure of two senior executives and two high-profile returnees to the book printer’s revamped management team.

Major merchants and mills are enacting contingency plans as they attempt to minimise disruption after yesterday’s abrupt shutdown of most of Paperlinx UK – although one senior paper executive has...