Finance

RCS shuns pre-pack, enters Company Voluntary Arrangement

Trade and commercial printer RCS has entered into a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA), securing around 70 jobs, after its creditors approved the proposal in a meeting last Wednesday (6 August).

BPIF warns against handing HMRC direct debt recovery powers

The BPIF has warned that HMRC should not be given direct access to personal or corporate bank accounts as a consultation on the new powers closed last night.

The only way is up: will rate rise pile pressure on print?

A lot has happened since March 2009. Back then, Gordon Brown was still Prime Minister, 2012’s Olympic fever was still years away and the economic recovery we’re in the midst of seemed like a distant...

UK economy finally outstrips pre-recession peak

Printers are benefiting from a boom that has seen the UK economy grow 3.1% in the past 12 months, finally taking it past its pre-recession peak and putting the UK on track to be the fastest-growing...

Former Polestar owner Investcorp buys SPGPrints Group

Investcorp, the Bahrain-listed private equity group that owned Polestar from 1998 to 2006, has acquired Netherlands-based screen and digital printing equipment manufacturer SPGPrints Group.

Walstead acquires Global MP kit, explains aborted acquisition

Wyndeham Group owner Walstead Investments has confirmed that it has acquired the equipment from failed direct mail printer Global MP.

How to find funding for eco improvement projects

On a list of all the people you would expect to be clued up on green funding, the government should be top. It’s the government after all that provides much of that funding, and the government that...

Mergers and acquisitions return to pre-downturn levels

The past quarter brought such a flurry of global M&A activity that, with two weeks still to go, it had already reached a level not seen since 2007. In Europe, it was the busiest quarter for at least...

M&A jump is evidence of recovery

Over the past few weeks there seems to have been an unprecedented spike in the amount of print M&A activity taking place and, believe it not, I’m not just talking about distressed sales or worse, the...

Landa secures €100m investment and updates press roll out plan

Landa Digital Printing has received a €100m (£80m) investment from specialty chemicals company Altana, which will be used to complete the commercialisation of the firm’s nanographic presses.