April Fool’s Day was no joke for Paperlinx. On 1 April, administrators for the the Australia-based group closed the majority of its UK operations, with the loss of almost 700 jobs. Deloitte sought buyers for the business and its assets, including the packaging operations, Parkside Packaging, 1st Class Packaging and Donington Packaging Supplies, which were not included in the administration...
Johnston Press won a five-year contract to print Express Newspapers’ four major print titles – Daily Express, Daily Star, Sunday Express and Daily Star Sunday – from July...
Interprint spent around £500,000 on its digital print capabilities with the purchase of two new Ricoh Pro C9110 printers, a Pro C901 and some internal building works...
Inspired Thinking Group was awarded a print management contract by Intu, a FTSE 100 company that owns and operates 15 UK shopping centres including the Intu Trafford Centre, Intu Metro Centre and Intu Lakeside...
Jack Rosen, the former owner of London screen printer Bovince, died aged 98...
Watermill Press installed 750 solar panels covering almost the entire 3000sqm roof of its premises, in what it believes is the biggest solar panel scheme in Bradford...
Adare chief executive Robert Whiteside described the £60m MBO at the business as “truly a watershed moment”. The secondary MBO was backed by Leeds-based private equity firm Endless LLP...
A restructure at CPI Group’s UK business saw it split into two divisions: Trade book printing and STMA and Commercial printing...
Document Management Solutions defeated a legal action brought by Everseal Stationery Products on 27 November 2013 for infringement of its ‘hand seal’ patent...
In yet another blow to the paper sector, Tullis Russell Papermakers fell into administration, after racking up losses of £18.5m over five years, resulting in the immediate loss of 325 jobs...
Polestar changed its capital structure in a move that enabled it to pay its first dividend since its inception in 1998. The company subsequently refinanced with a new £25m revolving credit facility from Barclays and a £90m, six-year senior secured loan from Swedish finance house Proventus Capital Partners...
Marstan Press boosted its digital quality and capacity by investing nearly £500,000 in two new Xerox presses: an iGen 150 XXL and a Versant 2100...
Webmart chief executive Simon Biltcliffe completed the Marathon des Sables, a six-day ultra-marathon in the Sahara desert billed as the “toughest race on Earth”, to raise money for Yorkshire Cancer Research...
Paperlinx UK administrators at Deloitte laid off another 70 staff. Meanwhile the group’s Benelux operations were also put into administration and the rest of its European operations described as being in a sale or “realisations process”...
Pureprint set up a new sales and customer service office in Leeds, headed-up by former Duffield Printers managing director Phil Jones...
Kolorcraft installed the first Bickers Tapejet outside of Germany and France – ahead of the machine’s official launch at Fespa 2015 – as part of a £2.2m capex programme...
DS Smith was set to become the world’s first user of the HP T1100 PageWide digital preprint engine for the corrugated packaging industry...
Label Apeel moved to a new factory, invested in a new HP Indigo WS6800 label press and unveiled a new website in an investment that totalled around £2m...
Bielomatik, which makes, among other things, Heidelberg’s CutStar sheeter, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection...
Wyndeham Group closed its historic Gait factory in Grimsby, with the loss of 34 jobs. Separately, Wyndeham was expanding capacity at its Roche facility in St Austell...
Two Paperlinx UK businesses were bought out of administration, saving almost 100 jobs: Vink Holdings bought the assets of Paperlinx’s wide-format operation, Visual Technology Solutions, while Premier Paper is taking on at least 30 former Paperlinx employees after agreeing a deal to acquire its reel paper operations...
The Scottish government and Fife Council set up a joint taskforce to help mitigate the impact of job losses at Tullis Russell Papermakers after it fell into administration...
De La Rue finally put a figure on the likely payout to the Bank of India as a result of paper production issues in the past. The total cost to the group had reached £43.2m...
Software developer Infigo Software was hoping to secure £1m from Virgin owner Sir Richard Branson’s ‘Pitch to Rich’ competition to help it expand in the UK and North America...
Print businesses including Banner Managed Communication, Capita Business Services, CFH, Critiqom and GI Solutions Group were among 37 suppliers to a mammoth new pan-government postal goods and services framework...
44 British printers were among 5,025 leaders of SMEs who have signed an open letter in support of the Conservative Party less than two weeks before the General Election...
Five print-related businesses were celebrating Queen’s Award for Enterprise accolades: Contra Vision, Tamper Technologies and Heraeus Noblelight all received Queen’s Awards for Innovation, while Pulse Roll Label Products and Fraser Anti-Static Techniques won International Trade awards...
Kent-based printer Printwells, which had been about to celebrate 25 years in business, closed its doors on 30 April...
