Start-up York Media printed its first commercial work... TheMPC acquired local litho printer IC Printing Services... Pureprint took the wraps off a multimillion-pound spend across its operations... Baldwin Technology announced it was to close its UK facility... Braille print and accessible format media company Gwasg Pia transitioned into employee ownership, nearly 40 years after it was founded as a cooperative in 1985... Nestlé was trialling a new paper tub for iconic Christmas staple Quality Street... Similarly, popular retro sweet brand Swizzels was trialling a new paperboard box for its Sweet Shop Favourites selection, produced by Affinity Packaging...Former Go Inspire CEO Patrick Headley returned to the industry with a new role at Pureprint Group... De La Rue agreed to sell its Authentication division to US giant Crane NXT in a £300m deal... CB Printforce UK went into administration... Smurfit Kappa UK was suing a small Birmingham catering firm and Birmingham City Council over the 2022 fire that saw 8,000 tonnes of compressed cardboard go up in flames... TikTok owner ByteDance entered the print publishing market through its subsidiary 8th Note Press, originally founded as a digital publishing house... Waitrose printed its latest Christmas food brochure with cutting edge scan-to-buy technology engineered by Phuzion Media and produced by Eye to Eye Media... Linney “revolutionised” its fulfilment offering with a major investment in robotic AutoStore warehouse automation technology and a CMC Genesys box-on-demand system... Park acquired fellow London print firm Geoff Neal Group... The print and packaging industry reacted with scepticism to chancellor Rachel Reeves’ new budget, which she hailed as a sober attempt to “restore economic stability”... Royal Mail partnered with an internet of things (IoT) tech firm to track the real-time whereabouts of nearly one million containers used to transport letters and parcels around the country...