Briefing

Just over a year on from Asia Pulp & Paper’s (APP) announcement of the implementation of its forest conservation policy (FCP), which centres on a moratorium on all natural forest clearance activities...

With the government continuing to pump money into the Regional Growth Fund (RGF) faster than it can be spent by either the BIS or the intermediaries through which the vast majority of funds are...

Packaging has been pinpointed by many in the trade as one of the most robust areas of print production when it comes to current and future growth, not least because packaging – whether it’s...

Earlier this month Amazon launched an app update that has been described as a major threat to traditional retailers. However, not everyone is running scared as the opportunities may be significant.

A row between Paperlinx and Sappi intensified last month when Sappi claimed a complaint lodged against it by the paper merchant for unfair competition had been dismissed.

All the rage last year, strategic partnerships between vendors continue to be de rigueur in 2014, it seems.

On the government’s ongoing plans to reform apprenticeships, training guru Jonathan Ledger has cautionary words for printers toying with training: “Be careful what you wish for.”

We look back at a year that, although tough, has towards the end seen green shoots of recovery emerge.

Going abroad for Christmas has become commonplace, and not just for holidays. Much of the printing of charity cards for the festive season takes place in the UK, but more and more customers are being...

The government says 1.25m businesses and charities will see their National Insurance contributions (NICs) cut by up to £2,000 each when the new Employment Allowance is introduced next year. Business...

Call it what you will, the strategic coming together of vendors in the hope of becoming more than the sum of their parts is the topic du jour in print.

Energy firms “overcharge by £3.7bn a year”, ran one recent newspaper headline. Virtually every national newspaper, in fact, has reported accusations that the UK’s biggest energy companies have...

Late-paying customers have long been the bane of SME business owners, all the more since the credit crunch began in 2007 leading to full-blown financial armageddon in 2008.

Infinity Finishing was one of the lucky ones, but just how lucky only time will tell. The business started in mid October, but unlike many would-be start-ups, this one was made possible with a loan...

It is 2009 and St Ives' chief executive Patrick Martell, who joined the group as an apprentice in 1980, is giving his first major interview since taking the reins in April of the worst year in the...