Briefing

No matter where your political loyalties lie, the General Election is a big deal for the print industry. While the potential business impact of the parties’ policies is outlined in our feature on page...

In July 2009, a former PrintWeek staffer made an astonishing prediction: “This time next year no one will be talking about Twitter”, positing the idea that, one year to the day, Twitter’s traffic...

Last week’s ransomware attack that forced the NHS to cancel operations and affected organisations as diverse as FedEx, Renault and the Russian interior ministry may have been unprecedented in scale,...

There was a buzz by the waterways of Hamburg earlier this month and it could only mean one thing, Hafengeburtstag was back!

Earlier this month the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) released its latest research into the UK’s Digital Economy, which highlighted the need for more digital and data skills among SMEs in the...

What do poultry farm business Bernard Matthews, bed manufacturer Silentnight and Polestar all have in common? They have all been the subject of controversial pre-packs, albeit with wildly differing...

It happened with a bit of a whimper in the end. After months and months of build-up, Theresa May’s courier delivered a six-page letter to European Council chief Donald Tusk, and with that the process...

It’s all change at Xeikon. As of next month the Belgian digital press manufacturer will have a new chief executive. And as of last month this long-time exponent of the merits of toner-based print...

With Article 50 set to be triggered imminently, on the face of it perhaps, one of the most glaring omissions of Philip Hammond’s first – and last – Spring Budget earlier this month was any mention of...

Over the past few years UV curing technology has become a major component in the sheetfed litho sector.

It is the bane of an SME’s life: late payments from a large customer can leave a smaller company in dire straits. For too long, it appears the government has sat back and allowed the big companies...

The print industry, like many others with room for consolidation, has a bustling M&A market, which in an ideal world would be characterised by honest, straightforward transactions where jobs are saved...

With the free world seemingly in freefall and the Brexit process under way, you could be forgiven for having missed the fact that print’s union Unite’s leadership election is just around the corner.

According to new research from Smithers Pira, the packaging sector is forecast to represent 56.6%, by value, of a European printing market worth €159.8bn (£139bn) in 2021. The sector represented 44.7%...

Last autumn, as the UK print industry began to settle down after the initial uncertainty of the post-EU referendum era, the first reports of impending paper price increases began to trickle though. By...