September 2011

Bezier was sold in a management buyout backed by HIG Europe, the European arm of private equity firm HIG Capital… Pindar’s Agility software business was sold out of administration to an MBO team and renamed Agility Multichannel…

AGI World and Shorewood Packaging announced plans to merge to create AGI-Shorewood… Reflex Labels acquired the assets of Rivers (Midlands) which traded as The Plain Label Company (PLC Labels)… Wyndeham Group entered into consultation with 58 employees ahead of the proposed closure of its Impact plant, which had been subject to prolonged strike action… Clays announced a £5m spend on new digital book printing kit…

Inc Direct secured a multimillion-pound contract with The Rank Group… Reports revealed that collapsed printers FS Moore and MPC owed creditors £3.3m between them… Reflex Labels invested £2.5m in a shrink sleeve and primary packaging division… Ratcliffe and Roper were awarded a £25,000-a-year contract by Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Trust…

St Ives acquired data marketing business Response One Holdings and retail and consumer insight agency Pragmar Holdings… Pensord secured £150,000 of funding from the Welsh Assembly government to train over 50 staff… F1 Colour merged with St8us Group to create a cross-media marketing services business…

J&G Environmental opened a new 372m2 facility in Stirling… Reflections Print offered to pay creditors just over £1m over five years under a company voluntary arrangement… Staff at Richard Edwards were placed in consultation following the company’s acquisition of Cartamundi… Meg Whitman was appointed president and chief executive officer of HP… Schawk acquired branding and design network Brandimage…

Duco were ordered to pay almost £250,000 after a worker was killed at the Berkshire facility in 2008… Pindar’s Confidential Print business was sold to Secure & Confidential Documents… Paramount Printers won a six-year £500,000 contract with the Scottish Parliament… Polestar’s Barry Hibbert slammed Andrew Pindar’s comments that trading practices at his company were partly to blame for the company’s demise…