Westdale Press managing director Alan Padbury predicts that mindsets will change in 2014 as people refocus on quality and service.

Acquisitions, investments and insolvencies: all the action from a year in print

Acquisitions, investments and insolvencies: all the action from a year in print

Acquisitions, investments and insolvencies: all the action from a year in print

Avon Graphic Technologies owed creditors a total of £1.8m at the time of its September collapse, according to the administrators' report, including more than £800,000 to trade creditors.

Staffordshire-based commercial printer KJB has invested circa £300,000 upgrading its post-press and front-end capabilities to bring more processes in-house and drive forward its ambitious growth plan.

Around 75% of floor space has already been reserved by exhibitors at Fespa Africa 2014, set to take place in Johannesburg, South Africa from 2-4 July next year.

Sturdy Labels has invested around £600,000 in an eight-colour UV dual servo FL-3 flexo press from Edale and associated pre-press equipment.

The latest version of this cloud-based system features new automatic functions geared towards variable data printing.

Printers, print managers and print and packaging equipment manufacturers have been named in a new report, 1,000 Companies to Inspire Britain.