News

The BPIF has reported a solid first quarter for print, the industry’s best Q1 for three years and a vast improvement on the same period last year.

Magazine publishers Hearst and Condé Nast Britain have walked away from distribution firm Comag, a company they jointly own.

Wheatons Exeter, the former Polestar book printing facility, has fallen into administration just under a year after it was bought in an MBO following the collapse of Polestar.

Six print businesses have made it into this year’s 1,000 Companies to Inspire Britain list, compiled by the London Stock Exchange Group.

Whistl, the UK’s second-largest delivery company, has announced Zurich Insurance and Yorkshire Building Society as new clients as well as renewing several existing contracts.

Holywell Press, the 127-year-old commercial printer in Oxford, has purchased a Horizon HT-30 three-side trimmer in a bid to smooth out workflows in its bindery.

Commercial printer Core Image has invested in a Heidelberg Versafire CV digital press and a Horizon StitchLiner 5500.

The PrintWeek FespaDaily team’s round up of some of the stories from Day five of the show at the Hamburg Messe.

UK printers put up a strong showing at this week’s Fespa Awards, carrying off four Gold Awards on the big night.

Flint Group has launched the first in a new series of UV low-migration inks designed for the sheetfed and web offset packaging markets, that will be brought to market throughout 2017.

Kingsley Print & Design has brought laminating in-house with the purchase of a Komfi Amiga 52 thermal laminating machine.

Oxfordshire commercial printer KMS Litho has added a Fastbind perfect binder and casemaker to its factory in order to boost its in-house finishing capability and offer outsourced bindery to local...

London-based wide-format printer Four Graphics has been subject to a pre-pack administration deal that has seen its assets and goodwill purchased by two separate companies, saving 24 jobs.

Durst is presenting a raft of new and upgraded machines at Fespa.

Prime Minister Theresa May has made high-profile visits to two printing companies in the space of a week.