Retail

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

SPS Group was founded in 1968 by Ian Martin as a local screen printing business. The firm has developed into a POS and retail specialist employing 175 staff. It is run by Ian’s sons Toby (pictured)...

The Ryedale Group has been named overall winner of the Stationers' Company’s inaugural Innovation Excellence Awards, for developing a low-cost gas sensor with litho-printed electronics.

The Kunene is a remote, mountainous region of the southern African country Namibia, and home to the indigenous, semi-nomadic Himba people, distinctive for their reddish all-over body make-up.

Former Swan Packaging managing director Bill Stillman has returned to the industry full-time, joining forces with Milan-based takeaway packaging manufacturer Liner Italia as its UK sales and marketing...

Wine and print together are Overmatter’s idea of the perfect story. At a Tesco not far from PrintWeek Towers someone with an oenophilic turn of phrase that would put Jilly Goolden to shame has hacked...

Fujifilm is targeting volume sign and display printers with the launch of the high-volume flatbed UV Acuity F wide-format printer series, its OEM version of Canon’s latest Océ Arizona.

Octink has increased its print productivity up to ten fold with a £500,000 investment in two Durst wide-format printers and a Caldera workflow.

Gask & Hawley is making a sensational return to web printing with a new hybrid web offset/inkjet press that will be unique in the UK.

Notorious for wearing very little, and indeed nothing at all in her Wrecking Ball video, controversial pop singer Miley Cyrus was nevertheless prominently featured on a London Fashion Week window...