Receivership & administration

Livingstone-based litho and digital print business Ink on Paper has been sold in a pre-pack deal to a fellow Scottish print operation.

Retail display specialist Kesslers International, part of the Hexcite Group, has gone into administration due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the retail sector and cost inflation.

The business and assets of a London bookbinding business – including various items of specialist equipment – will go under the hammer at auction later this month.

The owner of a fulfilment firm has been banned from acting as a director for seven years after taking out a Bounce Back Loan despite knowing his business was already insolvent.

Part of the Office Depot business that was not purchased by Paragon subsidiary OT Group earlier this year is poised to go into liquidation with trade creditors to the company owed circa-£1m.

A long-standing Yorkshire-based large-format printing business has gone into administration, with its assets subsequently sold to a fellow Yorkshire print company.

Acquisitive PFI Group has acquired Cestrian Imaging as part of its ongoing expansion drive.

A paper recycling company has been fined £75,000 after a worker sustained multiple injuries after falling through a moving conveyor.

The administration of Callprint has entered its fourth year as administrators work to resolve still-outstanding claims around transactions that took place prior to its administration.

While for the second month in a row YM Group, albeit indirectly this time, topped our most read listicle, M&A was clearly the overarching theme – despite a dodgy director and a dangerous die-cutter...