Business

Tangent profits boosted by strong growth from Printed.com

Strong revenue growth from Printed.com and sister site Goodprint helped boost parent company Tangent Communications ‘H1 pre-tax profits by almost 50%, the company said.

UPM named apprenticeship trailblazer

UPM Shotton has been selected as one of a group of ‘trailblazer’ businesses across the UK to lead the development of a new style of national apprenticeships.

Are print’s brokers an endangered species?

There is a perception in some quarters of the print industry that the battle with print management – that bogeyman of the printer – has now been won and those operators that once drove prices down to...

Offset vendors seek inroads to digital

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.

Price hikes are real threat to SMEs and could derail recovery

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...

Print order volumes highest since 2010, survey shows

Volume and output increased in Q3 of 2013 and confidence is strong for the fourth quarter, according to the latest Printing Outlook survey.

Media Impression brings VPS online paper trading platform to the UK

Media Impression, owner of the German paper trading platform Virtual Paper Stock (VPS), is working with the BPIF on a UK version.

Hippoprint installs UK's first Mimaki JV400-160SUV

Wakefield-based printer Hippoprint has invested around £25,000 in the UK's first Mimaki JV400-160SUV as part of a rolling kit investment programme.

Essentra acquires Dakota Packaging

Global packaging giant Essentra Plc has acquired Dublin-based Dakota Packaging for an undisclosed cash sum.

York Mailing strengthens board with two appointments

York Mailing has expanded its board with the appointed of a new chairman and non-executive director to assist with its ongoing growth plans.