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Full-service event supplier Showlite has been acquired by the managing directors of wide-format printer Ottimo Digital.

Administrators from FRP Advisory have now been formally appointed at PFI Group’s Works Manchester operation.

People moves at Walstead UK have resulted in two of its plants being under new management.

Pontypridd’s Big Bang Print is diving into the label market with a brand-new Konica Minolta press, while simultaneously opening up massive room for growth in its digital carton production.

A French online printer has installed the world’s first post-beta Ricoh Pro Z75 B2 sheetfed inkjet press.

Print and mailing company FDM Document Solutions has secured a four-year contract to deliver electoral materials for Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (RMBC).

Shares in Royal Mail’s parent group have jumped on the back of rumours that it could make a bid for a continental parcels specialist.

Fujifilm has partnered with eProductivity Software (ePS) on a new extended end-to-end print workflow production offering.

Micropress has put Canon inkjet technology at the centre of its £3.5m digital printing revamp.

Employees at Works Manchester have been sent home, with the future for the business unclear.

Independent European packaging specialist Van Genechten Packaging (VGP) has acquired 100% of its UK joint venture with printing and packaging specialist CartonCare Group.

Lesters Packaging boss Billy Hutchinson will soon add ‘pub proprietor’ to ‘packaging printer’, after investing over £1m in transforming a derelict pub.

SwissQprint has hired three new staff at its UK operation to support substantial growth on this side of the channel.

DS Smith has installed a high-spec Bickers Gluejet gluing plotter at its Ely operation – the sixth Gluejet device at the site.

Precision Proco Group has restructured into two parts with manufacturing now separate from its fast-growing tech operations.