Receivership & administration

Callprint’s Liverpool-based operation has been mothballed as the administrator manages the pre-pack sale of the bulk of the business to Hobs Group.

Callprint’s trade and assets have been bought in a pre-pack by Hobs Group and are set to be rolled into its reprographics business.

Callprint Group's former managing director Steve Cheek has taken control of its Dubai business, and also has a fresh involvement in a UK trade printer.

Callprint is understood to be courting buyers as a notice of intention to appoint administrators at the London-headquartered group was posted at the High Court.

Four Way Print and its subsidiary Blue Sky Design & Print have gone into administration three months after their acquisition by an industry newcomer, whose past business dealings are now under...

STM Packaging Group has fallen into administration after becoming another victim of the ‘Blue Planet effect’.

ESP Colour has acquired Totnes, Devon-based commercial printer Kingfisher Print & Design out of administration, pushing its turnover up to around £20m.

Finishing specialist Alchemy Coatings has been placed into administration but its sister company Silk Hat Greetings has adopted the trading name and will continue trading the business.

SP Group has been placed into administration by its new owner just four months after the business was purchased from St Ives.

Pureprint has taken on four members of staff and 15 post-press machines following the collapse of Chessington-based Barwell Print Finishers.