Trade print

Scheffer: UK market is the most challenging due to virus and Brexit

Helloprint "back on track", makes pricing pledge

Helloprint CEO Hans Scheffer has said the business is “back on track” after securing fresh funding and having “fought day and night to survive” over the past few months.

Signage and point-of-sale have been reasonably resilient

Mixed bag for Grafenia

Grafenia has reported an uptick in trading but has warned that the usually busy September to December period will be hit by Covid-19 restrictions.

Judge David McFarland heard the case at Belfast Crown Court. Image: Google Maps

Sales manager’s fraud results in jail sentence

A former sales manager at a UK trade printer has been jailed after being found guilty of a six-figure fraud.

Government surgical mask contract is worth more than £64m

Bluetree wins mega mask contract

Bluetree Group has won a massive government contract for hundreds of millions of surgical masks, and is taking on new employees at its Mask Box business as a result.

Tolley, Peeling and Bailey: more M&A could be on the cards

Precision, Prime and Proco merge and unveil £100m target

Precision Printing, Prime Group and ProCo have joined forces to create a £45m, 360 staff multisite commercial and online print group with ambitions to nudge £100m sales in three years.

The new Canva section of Tradeprint's site is now live

Tradeprint teams up with Canva for self-service design platform

Tradeprint has joined forces with online design platform Canva to roll out what Canva claims is a “first of its kind design-to-print solution for UK businesses”.

Gunning: praise for what group's teams were able to achieve

Grafenia gains CBILS loan to help ride out crisis

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has stymied Grafenia’s hopes of achieving breakeven EBITDA in the second half of its financial year, with sales down and losses increasing, in part due to one-off...

Trade printers are taking stock of new operating landscape

Trade printers adjust to new world order

A number of UK trade printers are among the latest industry firms to reshape their businesses as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Winkler with the firm's new HP Indigo 100K

Onlineprinters installs world's first HP Indigo 100K

Solopress parent Onlineprinters has become the first business to go public with its purchase of HP’s new flagship Indigo 100K.

IPIA and BAPC: building a stronger organisation that supports the business of print

BAPC merges with IPIA

Two industry trade associations have merged as part of a “shared mission to raise the tide for print in the long-term”.