Publisher Cre8 went into liquidation owing printers around £320,000… NGS Print Finishers went into administration owing £1.5m, with almost £700,000 owed to other finishing companies…

Two directors of Pinpoint Press were sentenced for their part in the supply and distribution of counterfeit DVDs and printed inlays, with a value of £2.5m… a legal claim against Technoprint from Unite over its purchase of Sessions of York was dropped… Documents came to light suggesting Polestar was near to collapse in the days running up to its takeover by Sun European Partners… employees at Wyndeham Impact held a walkout over changes to terms and conditions… Harlequin Display Group’s large-format print division, Graf, called in liquidators…

Ethedo Press went into administration, but "certain company assets were sold to Ethedo Digital" according to the administrator’s statement… AB Co, Wellan Studios and RW Reprographics formed a single print business under the holding company AB Print Group and merged all operations into a single site in Batley… BGP walked away from its contract with Future Publishing on the grounds of price, with the contract being moved to William Gibbons…

GW Chapman & Sons Print ceased trading… 145 jobs were put at risk at Wyndeham Plymouth as new owner Walstead looked to consolidate its web offset capacity by closing the site… X1 bought KK Print Solutions after Denise Goodacre, owner of the latter, decided to retire from the industry… Buxton Press extended its contract with Excel Publishing in a three-year, £3m deal…