Business

Plain tobacco packaging one step closer

The government is set to introduce regulations that will pave the way for a ban on branded tobacco packaging in the UK.

Tradeprint.co.uk orders first KBA as part of £4m spend

Tradeprint.co.uk has ordered a KBA Rapida 106 as part of a £4m spend that will also include a range of post-press and "added-value finishing" equipment, some of which was sourced at Ipex 2014.

Banner secures £2m Provident Financial contract

Print management firm Banner Managed Communication (BMC) has secured a £2m deal, following a competitive tender, to provide credit finance firm Provident Financial with a range of print and document...

Vistaprint acquires Pixartprinting in €127m deal

Vistaprint will acquire a 97% stake in Italian web-to-print business Pixartprinting for a base price of €127m (£105m) while the company's founder Matteo Rigamonti will retain a 3% stake.

EFI's Gecht urges printers to up commitment to expos

EFI chief executive Guy Gecht has issued a rallying call to European printers to engage with events like Ipex and ensure that they don’t get left behind.

DC-rider: driving innovation

In years to come, when we’re getting from A to B in Back to the Future-style floating cars, 2014 may well be remembered fondly as the year that the electric vehicle finally came of age.

Killer app: LinkedIn UK marks 15m users with print freebies

What boasts 66 rocket scientists, 12,530 journalists, 59 body builders and five mermaids? Not a joke, but a few interesting facts on professional networking site LinkedIn’s UK membership.

Re-energise your firm with W2P

Exploiting the full potential of W2P helped bring an old-fashioned firm bang up to date.

Going viral: using video to highlight your star quality

Dogs chasing deer, David after the dentist and sneezing baby pandas – it doesn’t take a digital genius to realise online video is now (with the latter alone garnering over 190m hits) just a bit...

Effective absence policies build better businesses

We Brits are famous for talking about the weather. In recent months, though, our obsession with clouds, wind and temperature has been easier to justify than usual.