Business
20 lessons learned during lockdown for prospering amid the new normal
While some print firms were shuttered during lockdown, others have kept going throughout. Dr Adrian Steele, managing director at Staffordshire-based Mercian Labels shares some of the changed workplace...
Covid crisis should stimulate a better deal for UK makers
Just as the coronavirus situation has kept us all apart, it’s also served to bring people and organisations together.
Aztec rises to Covid challenges and invests for growth
Aztec Label is set to invest a significant six-figure sum in an additional factory unit to boost its footprint by 25% as part of an ambitious post-Covid growth plan.
UK issues £90m facemask contract
German-headquartered medical and safety technology business Dräger has won a €100m (£89.6m) contract from the UK government for facemasks and will expand its UK facility as a result.
WTTB claims online automated split delivery first
Where The Trade Buys has laid claim to a UK first by automating split deliveries, enabling its customers to more closely mirror commercial print services while simultaneously benefiting from bulk...
Sunak's summer splurge: reaction
There has been a mixed reaction to chancellor Rishi Sunak’s £30bn package of additional measures intended to stave off a spike in unemployment, boost training and provide a fillip to the hospitality...
Power of Print goes online
This year’s annual Power of Print seminar is to embrace the power of digital and be hosted online to ensure it’s not impacted by the Coronavirus restrictions.
Forecast beating Macfarlane to repay furlough cash
Macfarlane Group has promised to repay the furlough cash it has received from the government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme after reporting that lockdown and the Covid crisis hadn’t impacted sales...
BPIF: slow pace of recovery has implications for print
BPIF chief executive Charles Jarrold has detailed current industry sentiment across the regions as businesses reach ‘stage three’ of the Covid crisis.
BPIF creates Covid-secure workplace guide
The BPIF has published a handy guide to help print firms become Covid-secure amid a mass of government guidance.