Business

Pulse Flexible Packaging pre-pack blocked

A potential pre-pack sale of Pulse Flexible Packaging, which fell into administration earlier this month, has been blocked due to the company’s pension scheme being a shareholder and secured creditor...

Over 150 redundancies at Pulse Flexible Packaging

Administrators of Pulse Flexible Packaging have said manufacturing has now restarted at the firm’s two sites, but that 152 staff have been made redundant.

Strikes threatened as Royal Mail announces pension scheme closure

Unions have threatened strike action after Royal Mail announced that its £7.4bn defined benefit pension scheme will close to future accrual in March 2018.

The positive effects of being neutral

Opting to go for carbon neutrality as a corporate goal is not to be taken lightly, says BrunelPrint commercial print director John Tugman. There is nothing neutral about such a move, demanding a...

Books take off as readers rekindle a love of print

It’s fair to say that the mood at the recent London Book Fair was pretty upbeat. Nielsen Book Research provided its latest findings on the eve of the show and its report made for positive reading –...

‘We want to be seen as number one in terms of quality’

With Fespa’s Global Expo just under a month away, chief executive Neil Felton talks about the organisation’s split personality, and how, despite representing different things to different people, its...

Wide-format sector holding firm in the face of Brexit fears

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...

Don’t drop prices if things go tits up

Sad news from Essex, with what looks like the imminent demise of the UK’s largest single-site commercial sheetfed printer, Anton Group.

Anton ‘rescue’ appears no longer viable

The current trading status of Anton Group is unclear, with a number of sources reporting that the business effectively ceased trading yesterday.

GI beefs up 4DM management team

GI Solutions Group has appointed a new managing director for the recently acquired Eclipse 4DM business, and is poised to roll out a digital re-equip at the site.