Coronavirus

Home testing kits involve labels with unique barcodes

Paragon CC teams with Royal Mail on Covid testing

Paragon Customer Communications has scooped a huge contract to partner with Royal Mail on the delivery of Covid-19 home testing kits.

Düsseldorf will not be Drupa city again until 2024

Drupa 2021 cancelled: show to return in 2024

Drupa organiser Messe Düsseldorf has bowed to the inevitable and cancelled the physical expo planned for 2021 entirely, along with a raft of other events including Interpack.

Christmas stamps for 2020: prices going up in new year

Royal Mail hikes stamp prices as USO losses balloon

Royal Mail has announced an inflation-busting increase of nearly 12% on the price of a 1st Class stamp, citing the need to “ensure the sustainability of the one-price-goes-anywhere Universal Service”.

Virtual event aims to provide an “immersive browsing experience”

Printing Expo opens virtual doors

Online exhibition Printing Expo has gone live with its first tranche of exhibitors.

Reach: digital revenues are up, as is cross-promotion of national and regional titles

Reach updates on trading

Reach has described print circulations as “resilient” in a trading update ahead of its year-end results, but there’s no update on its print plant rationalisation plans as yet.

Daily deliveries could reduce

Ofcom: 'Universal Service could be reduced to five days'

Reducing the Royal Mail’s obligation to deliver post from six days a week to five would “still reflect postal users’ reasonable needs” according to Ofcom, in a new report published just as some DM...

Grafenia: web-to-print shops can be set up “in minutes not months”

Grafenia posts 'lockdown' results

Grafenia has described its half-year results as an “interim lockdown statement” with sales down, but three acquisitions made along with investment in services that it hopes will pay off in future.

Most of England falls under Tier 2

Spending Review and new tiers: reaction

A large UK paper and packaging group has called for the government to match German levels of ambition on sustainability following yesterday’s Spending Review, while BPIF CEO Charles Jarrold has warned...

The last Packaging Innovations event at the NEC took place in February

Packaging Innovations postponed to June 2021

Easyfairs’ flagship Birmingham Packaging Innovations event has been postponed to June 2021 as coronavirus-related restrictions continue to impact the events industry.

Banknotes: capacity is full in second half

De La Rue in "early discussions" on Covid certificates

Amid speculation that the UK government could bring in some sort of Covid-19 vaccination passport or certificate, De La Rue has confirmed that it is in “early discussions” with several countries over...