Receivership & administration

All the business news, from acquisitions to liquidations, investments to divestments, from a year in the industry.

Hampshire-based commercial printer LPC Printing has fallen into administration and ceased to trade.

Pureprint has established a Bristol office following the recruitment of four staff from EPC Direct, which closed its doors earlier this month.

Unsecured creditors of Advent Colour are expected to receive 5p-10p per £1 of debt from the failed Andover printer, according to the administrators' six-month progress report.

Millnet Document Solutions, the joint venture between Yolanda Noble and document management specialist Millnet, has been placed into administration after a key client significantly reduced its work...

Manroland Sheetfed-owner Langley Holdings is set to acquire the German print chemicals group DruckChemie out of administration.

Self-adhesive label stock manufacturer Tenza Technologies has fallen into administration, resulting in the loss of around 70 jobs.

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HPM & Addo has fallen into administration and is understood to have been sold to one of its directors, Keiran Bayley, in a pre-pack deal.

It’s a depressing list, and a depressingly long one. The list (below) featuring a roll-call of more than 25 web offset printers that have closed since the year 2000 includes some of the industry’s...