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EU products will now have to be labelled with their UK FBO address from 1 January 2024

Food and drink labelling requirements postponed to 2024

Post-Brexit requirements on the labelling of imported European food and drink that were due to come into force on 1 October have been delayed to 1 January 2024.

Royal Mail: USO comes with high fixed costs, exacerbated by high inflation

Royal Mail raises prices amid industrial relations storm

Amid ongoing disruption to delivery schedules Royal Mail has brought forward a swathe of price increases originally slated for next year.

Bianchi: Confident the union will support sustainable industry growth. Image: Pro Carton

Pro Carton and Cepi Cartonboard consider merging

Members of industry associations Cepi Cartonboard and Pro Carton have expressed their intention to explore the possibility of joining into “one strong association” under the name Pro Carton.

Hunt making his emergency statement

Hunt warns on future energy support for business

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s dramatic reversal of most of the tax cuts announced by his predecessor Kwasi Kwarteng just 24 days ago have made it even more important for printing industry bosses to have...

Priest: excited to bring his know-how to vinyl venture

Priest brings on-demand expertise to elasticStage

Solopress co-founder Aron Priest has joined the advisory board of vinyl-on-demand firm elasticStage and will share his manufacturing expertise with the business.

Guy Barker: "[It's] just so much better than any other system we've had"

PSE Offline Marketing goes live with SolPrint

Print management and offline marketing agency PSE Offline Marketing has gone live with the SolPrint MIS after a three-month trial period.

Royal Mail: business needs to be "rightsized"

Shock at Royal Mail plans to axe up to 10,000 jobs

Royal Mail is planning to slash up to 10,000 jobs in the face of ballooning losses and the damaging industrial relations dispute, while union the CWU has described the firm’s strategy as...

Most of UPM's businesses achieved new record quarterly results

UPM and Mondi achieve bumper Q3 results

Paper groups UPM and Mondi have both released strong financial results for their respective Q3 periods.

Energy Relief Scheme for business will initially run for six months

Printers urged to complete energy surveys

Print businesses are being urged to complete a Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) survey that will shape which industries gain ‘vulnerable industry’ status under the new...

(L-R) ImageData finishing manager Jason McRae with operations director Jason Vivian

ImageData clears bottleneck with Multigraf folder

ImageData has installed a new Multigraf Eurofold 435-SM folder at its Brighton digital small-format site, allowing it to ramp up production.

Dailey (R) emphasised the need to move back from cost to value

Power and effectiveness of mail laid bare in new whitepaper

JICMail, the joint industry currency for ad mail, launched its inaugural whitepaper at the JICMail Measurement Matters Conference yesterday (12 October), with its findings largely positive news for...

KP Services runs two Kodak Prosper 6000P high-speed inkjet webs

KP Services renews contracts

Digital newspaper printer KP Services has described its Kodak Prosper inkjet presses as “robust workhorses” after winning fresh contracts to print national newspapers in Jersey.

Purcell is targeting sales of up to £700,000 in his first year

Purcell Branding scores top football contract in first quarter

David Purcell won official print partner status for Wolverhampton Wanderers just months after setting out on his own under the Purcell Branding name.

The new factory will cost Epson £22m

Epson to construct new inkjet factory

Epson has announced the construction of a new inkjet printhead factory at the group’s Akita Epson Corporation site in Japan.

Dr Schrödinger: a beloved family man and an impressive corporate leader

Leipa pays tribute to visionary and entrepreneurial owner

Leipa Group is mourning the loss of Dr Hubert Schrödinger, the fifth generation owner of the recycled paper and packaging manufacturer.