Finance
Ten ways to cut your business costs
Print firms are no strangers to the discipline of cost reduction. For years, the industry has been caught between the internet, print management firms and increasingly severe recessions. Budgets have...
Stationers' Company to stage mergers and acquisitions event
The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers is holding a round table evening to explore avenues for injecting capital into business development strategies.
Brazilian deal boosts sales for Goss
Web offset manufacturer Goss has sealed a number of valuable deals at Drupa, including the first installation of its Sunday 3000 press in Brazil to commercial printer Posigraf.
Sector responds to gov't initiative that takes no prisoners
When Graham Baker, managing director of Scarbutts Printers, read in his local newspaper that the printshop at Maidstone Prison had won a multi-million-pound printing contract from the private sector,...
Printing in prison could help industry if properly placed
Four years ago I visited Maidstone prison - not at Her Majesty's pleasure, I hasten to add, but for a feature - and came away impressed by what they were trying to achieve. The print shop manager told...
BPIF Outlook Survey exposes overcapacity
The BPIF has dampened the optimism reported in the last edition of PrintWeek after the Q1 2012 Printing Outlook Survey showed mixed results.
Could postal deregulation bring about a two-tier service?
When TNT Post announced in 2009 that it was to undertake a small-scale trial providing an end-to-end (E2E) mailing service delivering directly to households and businesses in Liverpool, more than a...
Warming up for 'the Olympics of print': your guide to Drupa 2012
B2 or not B2? That is the question digital manufacturers have been asking themselves pre-Drupa and - for the most part - they have opted for the affirmative answer. So much so, in fact, that some are...
UK printers hail 'falling distress levels'
UK print has claimed signs of a recovery, with many businesses reporting a strong first quarter and increased confidence, despite the revelation that the economy as a whole shrank in Q1.
Print and packaging 'showing early signs of recovery'
The manufacturing sector has been hailed as leading the UK's race to recovery from recession as the number of companies reporting financial strain fell year-on-year, according to insolvency specialist...