Business

CWU serves ballot legal notice

The Communication Workers' Union (CWU) has served formal legal notice to Royal Mail of its intention to ballot members for industrial action.

Ex Cromwell Press director sentenced

Former Cromwell Press director Andrew Hemmings was fined 1,000 at Swindon Crown Court last week (19 September) after admitting fraud.

2M Print boost digital output with MGI

Norwich-based printer 2M Print has invested in an MGI Meteor DP8700XL to meet growing demand for regular and out-of-format photobook printing.

NGS enters voluntary liquidation

NGS Print Finishing, which merged with Purfect Binding Company (PBC) in July, has been placed into creditors' voluntary liquidation.

Pureprint acquires Abstract for undisclosed sum

Pureprint has bought the assets and business of Annodata printing division, Abstract, after it fell into administration at the beginning of the month.

Royal Mail's PAF plans could threaten business survival

Royal Mail's plans to overhaul charges to its Postcode Address File (PAF) licence could ramp up costs from around 20,000 to 200,000 and put print and mail companies out of business, warn experts.

20 years of digital: the innovation that sparked a revolution

It is 1993. Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You has spent 10 weeks at the top of the charts and a pint of beer costs a mere £1.30. There is also the small matter of a revolution in global...

Business inspection: Catch some rays and cut energy costs

A desire to reduce its environmental impact lead this publisher down an unlikely path.

Don't fall victim to workplace hazards

Red tape. Definitely something that features prominently on printers' top-five-things-to-grumble-about lists. And yet seemingly overly prescriptive government legislation is often there for good...

'We see ourselves as growth hackers'

Lawrence Merritt was managing director of Photobox UK & Ireland from 2007 until 1 March this year when he side-stepped to head up his new 'incubator' arm of the business, Photobox Startups. Hannah...