The government announced legislation to ban disposable vapes and enforce the use of plain packaging for reusable ones... DMG Media issued notices of redundancy to all the workers at its Dinnington and Thurrock sites... The Logson Group acquired Challenge Packaging... Severn Print entered liquidation just four months after being bought by the Handel Group... Data, document and mailing house Millnet underwent an MBO... Narinder Sandhu, the architect of a huge £70m-plus fraud against Royal Mail was jailed... Print N Go moved to a new 100sqm shop in Kettering... Surepak entered administration after growing overheads cut into its cashflow... Reach Printing Services had to enact disaster recovery plans after a power issue crippled its Oldham facility... Printed.com signed for its second production site, “a stone’s throw” from its Northumberland HQ... The Barclay family, owners of The Daily Telegraph, accelerated efforts to sell struggling parcel delivery business Yodel... Cannabis plants worth millions of pounds were found growing in an abandoned printing works, the former Newport Advertiser print site... Remous Group bought Wincanton Digital Print out of administration in a pre-pack... Greenshires Group went into administration, with all staff laid off... DS Smith unveiled a £48m investment in a new fibre preparation line at its Kemsley mill...
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