Briefing

Last month, the National Apprenticeship Service announced that up to 20,000 apprenticeships were available on its system, while the latest statistics from the Department for Business, Innovation and...

There's little doubt that Royal Mail bosses welcome the government's long-awaited pledge to privatise the group, but for some in the print industry, it's a poison pen letter, tainted with the threat...

Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) promised to end to all deforestation across Indonesia in a new Forest Conservation Policy (FCP) published to a surprised, if not sceptical, world on 5 February.

Office for National Statistics figures published this month show that our workforce is most definitely ageing. In fact this year, in the period between February and April, the number of people in...

If cyber crime is a term that has until now not pinged on your radar, things are about to change.

It was yet another weighty document relating to Kodak's Chapter 11 process, but among the hundreds of filings, this was the most significant to date.

Judging by the amount of mergers and acquisitions across the print and packaging industries over the past 18 months, we appear to be hitting a peak in M&A activity for the sector.

If government plans are realised, paper travel tickets will disappear, but this is not necessarily bad news for printers.

Historically, recording information on pulp and paper sources has been limited to merchants and manufacturers. New legislation will change that Words Pamela Mardle

Firms once solely regarded as manufacturers are branching out into services, with mergers and acquisitions often enabling the move. But is it wise?

The year started and ended with consolidation in the web offset sector, but in the intervening 12 months, print had much to cheer about

Sir John Madejski has been forced to accept defeat in his long battle to return Goodhead to profitability. So what now for the web offset sector?

Cashflow is the lifeblood of commerce, but despite the government's efforts, both the public and private sectors continue to pay their bills late

According to a new report, ever-increasing power prices are attributable to the UK's climate change policies and are likely to stymie recovery