Print buying

Cheltenham mixed-discipline printer In2Print has launched itself into the exhibition market with the purchase of nearby wide-format printer Backen Wright.

Webmart founder and executive chairman Simon Biltcliffe is returning as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Oxford Brookes University.

Peter Andreou has expanded his printing industry interests with the acquisition of Affinity Packaging.

Simply Cartons has been acquired by Autajon, giving the France-headquartered global packaging group its first foothold in the UK.

FDM has secured the contract to produce up to 18m ballot papers for the 2024 London Mayor and Assembly elections.

Customers of US e-commerce platform DemandBridge will now be able to put orders through to printers around the world, following a partnership between it and Dutch print broker service Peecho.

TimsonsCPI is developing new, upgraded, and retrofitted presses with the assistance of Baldwin Technology to support recent growing demand for printed books.

A new report into the future for local news media has described the next three-to-five years as a critical period, with industrial print provision for newspapers “entering its final phase”.

While a welcome reprieve was the month’s biggest story, our July listicle was largely dominated by M&A and insolvencies, with a smattering of research and a bumper payday for good measure.

Controversial influencer Andrew Tate – currently facing charges of rape, human trafficking and forming an organised crime group in Romania – has launched a new comic, with the first edition priced at...