Print buying
Disqualified packaging boss sentenced for breaching ban
A disqualified company director has been sentenced after he performed key management roles in two packaging companies and formed another, despite being banned.
API Foils bought out of admin
API Group’s foils division has been bought out of administration by Australian company Aldus.
DS Smith completes plastics division sale
DS Smith has completed the sale of its plastics division to Stamford, Connecticut-based Olympus Partners and its affiliate, flexible packaging specialist Liqui-Box.
NTF rolls out sheetfed paper wrapping
Nottingham Trade Finishers (NTF) aims to capitalise on the growing trend for paper wrapping with a new niche service that allows printers to provide their own pre-printed sheets to be used as the...
Taylor Bloxham creditors count cost of group's collapse
Taylor Bloxham Group was insolvent on a cashflow and balance sheet basis and had just £20,000 in the bank at the time of its administration, with creditors of the business owed more than £7m.
Macfarlane notches up 10th consecutive year of growth
Macfarlane Group marked its 10th consecutive year of growth in 2019 after seeing a 4% increase in sales and a 10% rise in pre-tax profit.
Busiest year yet for Two Sides’ anti-greenwash campaign
Two Sides’ anti-greenwash campaign experienced its busiest year to date in 2019, with 131 companies removing misleading anti-paper statements.
Antalis to restructure UK business
Paper merchant Antalis has undertaken a strategic review “to create a leaner and more resilient organisation” that will result in a number of redundancies across the UK business.
De La Rue to slash costs by £35m
De La Rue has quashed fears that it could breach its banking covenants and has announced a new three-year Turnaround Plan that includes an “accelerated cost reduction programme” aimed at saving the...
If people don't want it, so be it
Jo Francis says it’s not worth worrying about the type of print that’s on its way out. If, indeed, it is.