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The expo brought together print buyers, printers and suppliers

IPIA rounds off busy year with successful Expo

The IPIA’s Recognising Excellence Expo proved a successful conclusion to a bumper year for the association, which has seen its profile rise even higher.

There has been an increase in mail effectiveness

Significant increases in mail engagement and effectiveness in Q3

JICMail, the joint industry currency for ad mail, has released its data for Q3 2022, which found there has been a significant increase in the amount of mail UK consumers are reading and looking at and...

HH Global Group: focus on tech-enabled creative production and procurement

HH sales top £1.5bn

Sales at HH Global have soared past the £1.5bn mark on the back of its string of acquisitions, and profitability at the group is also vastly improved.

Susan Carr, CV Labels' sales director (L) and Bob Veitch, MD, in front of the FB-350

CV Labels makes productivity leap with Nilpeter install

CV Labels has seen a 30% increase in label throughput after installing a Nilpeter FB-350 UV label press.

115,000 postal workers have been taking industrial action

Labour frontbencher calls for Royal Mail inquiry; strike impact laid bare

Shadow secretary of state for Business and Industrial Strategy Jonathan Reynolds has written to secretary of state for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Grant Shapps to address his “extreme...

The Sustainability Partnership's new logo was launched 1 December

Fespa UK launches print sector recycling accreditation

Fespa UK has partnered with waste management service Reconomy to launch an accreditation for companies participating in their sustainable waste management scheme.

Dehing speaking at the Value Conference: confident about independent future

Agfa Offset Solutions preps for independence, focus on customer value

Agfa Offset Solutions is readying a new name for its future as a standalone business.

Some eras end while others are reborn in November’s listicle

The month’s list of Printweek’s most read stories is top ‘n’ tailed by a major player calling it a day at its UK operation while another leading light welcomes a new era as it changes hands.

WBC's range includes a wide range of products for the festive season

Premier expands with specialist packaging buy

Premier Paper Group has acquired a specialist packaging and retail display supplier that began life with a £5,000 loan from the Prince’s Trust and now has sales of nearly £20m.

(L-to-R) Ravi De Silva Lindamulage, Achala Wannipuge, and staff member, Madeesha Eliyadura

The Printed Gift Shop expands into B2B

Personalised gift printer The Printed Gift Shop (TPGS) has taken its first step into large-format B2B work by installing a Mimaki UCJV300-160 1.6m-wide roll-to-roll UV LED printer.

AccurioPress C4080: modular device provides "speed and continuity"

Future Print Leeds upgrades print room

Future Print Leeds has refreshed its production setup with two new Konica Minolta devices.

Agfa said it had "no other choice" but to increase prices substantially

Agfa to increase Digital Print & Chemicals prices

Agfa is set to implement double-digit price increases across its Digital Print & Chemicals portfolio worldwide, effective 1 January 2023.

Smogur: "The business is in a very good position"

ESP Group acquired in MBO deal

ESP Group has been acquired in a management buyout (MBO) deal and has ambitious growth plans to be achieved both organically and through acquisition.

Sottsas, right with business development director Yiannis Apostolidis

Vanguard Digital eyes growth with new European HQ

Durst has opened a new HQ and customer demo centre for the European operation of its US subsidiary Vanguard Digital Printing Systems Corp.

Group Riccobono will have the closest gravure operation to the UK when Liverpool closes

Prinovis news shifts supplier landscape

Continental printers are hoping to pick up work as a result of next year’s closure of Prinovis UK – while Walstead Group expects that many of the products currently printed gravure will transition to...