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Moonpig: performance since the IPO has been outstanding
'Resilient, profitable and cash generative model'

Moonpig grows subs, peak card volumes

Moonpig now has more than 250,000 subscribers to its Moonpig Plus service, and has produced more than 9m personalised greeting cards in its current financial year.

Bates: "Welcoming new members on board is always a pleasure"
Print advocacy group grows

Acorn and European honeycomb association join Two Sides

Specialist A5 and A4 magazine printer Acorn Web Offset has become the latest company to sign up to print and paper advocacy group Two Sides.

Kohl leads Key Production's expansion into the German music industry
New German outpost

Key Production expands into Europe

Music packaging and print broker Key Production has expanded into Europe with the establishment of an office in Berlin.

Earnings-enhancing deal

Macfarlane Group acquires Allpack Packaging Supplies

Macfarlane Group has acquired Allpack Packaging Supplies, an East Anglian business that supplies protective packaging products to customers across a wide range of sectors.

Customers are questioning how their relationship with UPM can ever be repaired
Union collective opposes government reforms

Supplies from Finnish paper mills hit by strike

Deliveries from Finnish paper mills are being impacted by a fortnight-long strike that is hitting operations at the country’s ports and freight network.

Preston Brook is capable of processing 500–600 million packs a year
New kit installed

APS reveals further investment in secure print capabilities

APS Group has added a raft of additional kit and made a new senior hire to support the expansion of its secure Customer Communication Management facility in Preston Brook near Runcorn, which included...

'Strong progress' at growth engines

Agfa's digital printing business grows as ink sales boom

Agfa’s Digital Print & Chemicals operation overtook Radiology last year to become its biggest division – with inkjet ink sales up 14%, boosted by the conversion of former Inca customers.

Will push and test the press 'to the max'

Delta Group signs for world's first Agfa SpeedSet

The Delta Group is poised to install the world’s first Agfa SpeedSet Orca single-pass B1 inkjet press.

First buy in the UK

Indian coding specialist acquires UK partner in £1m deal

Indian coding and marking specialist Control Print has acquired a controlling stake in the UK’s Codeology Group.

The Horizon HT-300 joins six other Horizon machines at Flexpress
Another Horizon for the firm

Flexpress drives automation with Horizon trimmer

Leicester trade firm Flexpress installed a new Horizon HT-300 iCE trimmer in late February, boosting automated production in the process.

Plus5's new 700sqm site is shared with fellow printers Tadberry Evedale and Bluwave
Relocation and cooperation in South London

Plus5 and Tadberry Evedale move site together

Plus5 Print & Digital has taken on a new lease in Beckenham, South-East London, bringing fellow printer Tadberry Evedale along in the move, and has installed a brand-new Xerox Versant 280 digital...

Investigators discovered the company had made false and misleading statements
Amount applied for did not reflect actual sales

Co-directors barred over BBL

Two co-directors of a branding and signage business have been disqualified for abusing the Bounce Back Loan scheme.

The new facility is built on the mill’s existing estate
New 1,400sqm production site

Romiley steps into print conversion with e-commerce win

Stockport recycled board manufacturer Romiley has nearly finished construction on a new 1,400sqm production facility to produce board envelopes for an e-commerce giant.

Direct-to-consumer push

Worldwide expansion for William Morris designs

Sanderson Design Group has struck a deal to expand the availability of products featuring the iconic designs of William Morris via a new e-commerce venture.

Literacy project on a tight deadline

Pureprint whips up Welsh book for Wrexham

Sussex-headquartered Pureprint has produced a special Welsh-language book for Wrexham AFC, in partnership with specialist multilingual non-profit publisher NABU and HP.