Receivership & administration

Former employees of failed point-of-sale printer SP Group have been successful in a legal claim that the firm breached employment law when it shut down last year.

Cirencester Print Finishers has gone into liquidation, with the loss of seven jobs.

An MBO team has acquired the business and assets of the Arjowiggins Fine Papers and Arjowiggins Chartham businesses, securing 559 jobs.

Unite the Union in Ireland is taking legal action against Nicholson & Bass over its treatment of employees who were affected by restructuring at the Belfast business last month.

The mooted management buyout of Arjowiggins’ Stoneywood mill in Aberdeen is expected to be finalised “in the coming days” according to local newspaper the Evening Express.

It appears that Quinns Belfast (2009) and Nicholson & Bass will be going into liquidation, although the formalities are yet to be enacted.

Vision On Display has confirmed the appointment of a liquidator after the display printer closed its doors in July.

An Essex-based printer that went into administration last month has now closed its doors, with the loss of all seven jobs.

Calderprint’s remaining kit is now up for private treaty sale after a number of machines did not realise their target price at auction.

The administrators for the Arjowiggins UK companies that remain in administration have updated on their progress.