Trade print
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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 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.
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.
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”.
Arden achieves green accreditation
Arden Dies and Arden Engraving, both part of the Arden Group, have become the first die-making and engraving companies in the UK to achieve ISO 14001 accreditation.
Former-Mark Andy director launches consultancy firm
A print industry veteran has established an engineering and consultancy firm to help UK packaging printers and converters.