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(L-R) Jill Every, Jacky Sidebottom-Every, Wayne Fitzpatrick, Brian Sidebottom and Vicky Every

MBO at Glossop Cartons

The former sales director of packaging manufacturer Glossop Cartons has led a management buyout at the business.

The HP Latex 1500 was installed at Scot Signs in November

Scot Signs launches new businesses

Scot Signs has launched two new businesses focusing on banner printing and wallpaper production after investing in an HP Latex 1500.

Reporting data is made accessible via Stannp.com’s web interface or via API webhooks

Stannp.com launches real-time mail tracking in UK and US

Direct mail platform Stannp.com has launched a new service that offers its customers full real-time visibility of mail pieces as they pass through the UK and US mail networks.

Busted: 10 myths in employment law

There is a lot of scope for confusion on the rights and obligations of employers, so Printweek asked two employment lawyers to list the five top misconceptions.

All dressed up with somewhere to go

There’s a lot of tax law regarding work uniforms – not least of all, what exactly constitutes a uniform. If your staff wear one, you need to know where you stand.

Reward and prosper

Incentive programmes are common practice for improving performance, but how successful they are will depend on how much thought goes into their setup.

The UK’s exit from the EU is proving a boon for some, a bane for others

What has been the initial impact of Brexit on the UK’s printing industry?

Printweek editor, Darryl Danielli

Magic money tree has propped us up, but it is due to be felled soon

Back in September, a consortium of printing industry trade bodies gloomily wrote to the chancellor Rishi Sunak warning him that 3,000 print business would be at risk of sinking without a trace if...

February favours long overdue good news

February may be the shortest month, but as our rundown illustrates there was no shortage of big stories and top of the pile by a country mile was some welcome news.

Atkinson: "GWP is a company that we have admired for quite a long time"

Macfarlane acquires protective packaging specialist GWP

Packaging giant Macfarlane Group has acquired GWP Holdings Ltd, the owner of protective packaging manufacturing and distribution business GWP Group.