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Core markets 'ripe for digital transformation'

Koenig & Bauer Durst builds senior team with sales hire

Koenig & Bauer Durst has recruited a new sales director with wide-ranging digital and conventional printing experience, including at Landa Digital Printing.

Now printing in-house

Wednesbury Car & Commercials enters print game

Vehicle and livery firm Wednesbury Car & Commercials (WCC) has begun printing in-house after taking delivery of a Mimaki JV300-160plus printer-cutter from CMYUK.

Some suppliers were awarded several lots
Various services required

Mega mail services contract among new tenders

A mailing services contract worth £3m is among the recently listed tenders currently available via the government’s Contracts Finder and Find a Tender services.

Shani: "Signage has always been something that my customers have wanted"
Entrepreneur has franchise experience

New owner shares plans for Fastsigns Milton Keynes

Entrepreneur Anil Shani has officially taken the reins at Fastsigns Milton Keynes and has shared his growth plans to further support local businesses.

Will be reassessed later this month

Finnish strike action is paused

Wide-ranging strike action in Finland has been suspended as of today (8 April).

Progress towards 'Bobst vision'

Bobst readies Drupa reveal

Bobst will take the wraps off a new all-in-one digital line for folding cartons at Drupa, where its exhibit will major on zero fault packaging production.

Further reduces use of virgin plastic

PepsiCo adopts more paper packaging

PepsiCo Europe has expanded its use of paper-based packaging on multipack products.

Focus on workflow

Bluetree in Muller Martini first, new Landa will be S11P spec

Bluetree Group has invested nearly £2m in the UK’s first Muller Martini Prinova Digital stitching lines – and its new Landa press will also be the country’s first S11P model.

UK Printing Company appointed administrators from FRP Advisory on 27 March
Administrators' report filed

UK Printing Company pre-packs

Wide-format and promotional print specialist UK Printing Company (UKPC) has undergone a pre-pack sale to S43 Trading Limited, a new company set up by UKPC director Adam Robinson.

Greens has installed two Ricoh C9500 high-speed digital presses
Ricoh Pro C9500s installed

Greens extends Ricoh partnership in web-to-print investment

High Wycombe mailing and documentation specialist Greens has invested in four brand-new Ricoh toner presses to back up growth in its web-to-print business.

Williams: touch is such an important part of the human experience
Special exhibition

Canon breaks barriers in exhibition for blind

Canon’s groundbreaking photography exhibition ‘The World Unseen’ opened yesterday (4 April) at Somerset House in central London.

KM: print volumes at commercial printing companies “on a recovery trend”
Global structural reforms

Konica Minolta plans to cut 2,400 jobs

Konica Minolta is implementing global structural reforms to achieve its ‘Medium-term Business Plan’ goals for its fiscal year 2023 through to 2025, and sustainable growth beyond 2025, with 2,400 jobs...

Property has pool house, cinema and gym

Fraudster’s house goes under the hammer

The luxury home of a disgraced former mailing boss is going up for auction with a guide price of nearly £3m.

Helped create franchise module

Toplis honoured by Lancaster University

Bardon Group chairman Nigel Toplis has been made an honorary professional fellow of Lancaster University Management School for his decades-long contribution to its academic programme.

Potential synergies outlined

International Paper updates on possible offer for DS Smith

International Paper Company has provided an update on its possible offer for DS Smith, which would see the US company acquire DS Smith’s entire issued and to be issued share capital.