Print buying

Direct mail suppliers to charities and financial services businesses could face crippling backdated VAT bills according to the DMA, which has warned that many printers could be sitting on a "VAT...

Print and document management specialist Paragon Group UK has appointed Simon Whitaker as its new UK sales manager to support its plans for continued growth and increasing market presence.

The Delta Group has installed two new Durst wide-format machines, significantly boosting it’s roll-to-roll capacity and enabling it to bring soft-signage production inhouse for the first time.

Acquisitive packaging group Coveris has bought its second UK firm in three months with a deal for £20m turnover Learoyd Packaging.

Print sales are up at Tangent Communications but the group has issued a profit warning on the back of a poor performance at its agency operation, causing a near-20% drop in its share price.

Average net magazine circulation in the UK increased by 1.2% to 33.4m in the first six months of 2014, despite a mixed performance by some of publishing's biggest brands.

A major consolidation play is underway in the business supplies sector, which will affect the ownership of one of the UK’s biggest print managers.

Hobs Reprographics’ dedicated bid and proposal team, TeamTender, was instrumental in last month’s launch of Hitachi’s AT100 and AT200 electric commuter trains.

Brunel Promotions will install a Motioncutter laser finishing system later this year.

Falling print prices arising from intense competition for new business were the number one concern in Q2 2014, according to an otherwise largely upbeat report on the industry from the BPIF.