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Whistl now employs around 2,250 staff

Whistl acquires Clientbase

Delivery management group Whistl has acquired Clientbase Fulfilment and Contact Centre, its third transaction in the e-commerce fulfilment and contact centre sector.

The game is now live on Webmart's website

Webmart launches Christmas game with charity prize

Webmart has kicked off the festive season with the launch of a new game that will see it donate £5,000 to charity.

Sites for the campaign include the London Underground

CCM launches major outdoor campaign for PPE brand

CCM Group has gone live with an outdoor advertising campaign for its consumer brand Trusted PPE that it said is believed to be the largest outdoor campaign to go live this year in the public personal...

TopShop is one of the many brands under the Arcadia umbrella

Arcadia: print supplier exposure not clear

Arcadia’s collapse into administration appears likely to leave its remaining print suppliers out of pocket, although some had already stopped printing for the troubled group and there are hopes that...

Investigators found that the company had invoiced for adverts that had not been agreed to

Another rogue magazine publisher shut down in Liverpool

The High Court in Manchester has wound up another rogue magazine publisher based in Liverpool, following a spate of similar cases in the city and surrounding areas over the past 18 months.

Virtual event aims to provide an “immersive browsing experience”

Printing Expo opens virtual doors

Online exhibition Printing Expo has gone live with its first tranche of exhibitors.

Gibbons (Centre) with director of print Charlie Gibbons (L) and general manager Steve Omer (R)

KNP Litho boosts firepower with Xerox and Vivid spend

KNP Litho has invested in a Xerox Iridesse digital press and a brace of finishing machines from Vivid Laminating Technologies to enhance its service offering.

Reach: digital revenues are up, as is cross-promotion of national and regional titles

Reach updates on trading

Reach has described print circulations as “resilient” in a trading update ahead of its year-end results, but there’s no update on its print plant rationalisation plans as yet.

Greene: "I am excited to share all the new possibilities with our clients"

Precision Proco acquires fine art specialist WKG

Precision Proco Group has acquired WKG Print, formerly Witherbys, as it continues its plans for growth.

UK consumers are predicted to spend £7.5bn over Black Friday weekend this year

Printers get involved with 10th Black Friday

A raft of printers across the country have launched special offers and discounts on products and services as they embrace the 10th Black Friday event.

Daily deliveries could reduce

Ofcom: 'Universal Service could be reduced to five days'

Reducing the Royal Mail’s obligation to deliver post from six days a week to five would “still reflect postal users’ reasonable needs” according to Ofcom, in a new report published just as some DM...

Printing inks manufacturers have seen sales fall in 2020

Printing inks sales down as Covid-19 and Brexit hits confidence

Confidence has started to return to the UK coatings, printing inks and wallcoverings industries after an uncertain year, but it is still weaker than average and sales are down year-on-year, according...

Grafenia: web-to-print shops can be set up “in minutes not months”

Grafenia posts 'lockdown' results

Grafenia has described its half-year results as an “interim lockdown statement” with sales down, but three acquisitions made along with investment in services that it hopes will pay off in future.

Lores on HP's print results: "We delivered a strong quarter relative to the market conditions"

Full-year and Q4 print revenue down for HP

HP Inc’s sales in its Printing division and its overall revenue both showed declines in Q4 and for the full-year.

The Alegro A7 binder has increased running speeds at Pureprint

Pureprint in mega finishing install

Pureprint Group has invested in a raft of new finishing kit for its main commercial litho and digital production site in Uckfield, East Sussex.