Smith & Ouzman and two of its directors – chairman Christopher Smith and sales and marketing director Nicholas Smith – were found guilty of making corrupt payments to secure print contracts in Kenya and Mauritania, following an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office...
Pureprint acquired a majority shareholding in Imprint Group, for an undisclosed sum...
The UK data protection watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office was “looking into” an alleged vulnerability in greetings card printer Moonpig’s Android app...
Former Global MP and Prospect Mailing Services owner Kevin Dunstall became a director at Chichester-based Limefresh Media...
Communisis acquired shopper marketing agency Life Marketing Consultancy in a deal that could reach £23.3m over three years...
Five envelope manufacturers, Tompla, GPV, Hamelin, Mayer-Kuvert and Bong, were fined a total of €19.5m (£15.2m) by the European Commission for breaching antitrust rules...
Xaar announced the appointment of former Kodak stalwart Doug Edwards as its new chief executive...
Paperlinx, which would go on to feature heavily in the pages of PrintWeek over the next 12 months (for all the wrong reasons), initiated a strategic review of its European, Asian and Canadian operations to look at potential acquistions, disposals and mergers...
Imprima was split into two businesses with an MBO team, headed by former sales director Tim Black and former operations director Chris Callow...
Ukip blamed a campaign mix-up in which a woman’s phone number was mistakenly included on one of its mobile billboards on “an unfortunate printing error”...
Ashford Colour Press spent around £2m on a second digital book production line, comprising HP and Hunkeler technology, just two years after ordering its first...
Waste management specialist J&G Environmental launched a pressroom consumables range...
Kodak chief executive Jeff Clarke revealed that he had been on the hunt for potential high-tech acquisitions in Israel...
Charterhouse PM acquired the £10m-turnover Bristol-based customer engagement agency Indicia for an undisclosed amount...
Quad/Graphics revealed an investment plan that included the installation of “20 or more” HP inkjet web presses in the next three-years to transform its book printing capability...
The BPIF became the first trade association to operate its own law firm, following legal changes that allowed the move to happen...
Gardiner Colours was fined £66,000 over health and safety failings after a worker died when he was crushed by a varnish silo...
Williams Press (Berks) fell into administration, resulting in the loss of 62 jobs...
Micropress invested £2.3m in new kit including a Xerox iGen 150 and a five-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106...
Hartgraph spent around £2m on a new five-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 75 with coater and newly purchased premises...
Greenhouse Graphics invested around £500,000 in a Komori Lithrone S429 with H-UV curing to boost its production efficiencies and green credentials...
St Ives Clays was set to become the sole UK supplier of mono books to publishing giant Penguin Random House after the publisher’s existing contracts with CPI UK expired this year...
As a result, CPI was planning to shut one factory and cut around 10% of its UK workforce...
Consumables and mailroom manufacturer and supplier Totalpost Services acquired mailroom automation and insertion systems manufacturer Mailing & Mechanisation UK. Totalpost also became the exclusive UK and Ireland distributor of Muller flexible paper handling devices...
