Business

Communisis wins huge deal with bank
Communisis will effectively double the size of its transactional printing business as part of a deal to take over the in-house print operations of Lloyds TSB.

Two Sides challenges rival NGO's paper claims
Industry lobbying group Two Sides has hit back at a rival paper NGO's "questionable claims" about the sustainability of paper.

KPM eyes growth after magazine acquisitions
Commercial printer KPM has moved into publishing following the acquisition of five magazine titles from a collapsed publisher, a strategic move it said would boost turnover by a "significant amount".

Tangent's online ops add new customers
Tangent Communications described all its operations as performing "well" in its AGM statement released today.

Ipex unveils packed 2014 visitor feature programme
Ipex has revealed some of the new features it believes will make the 2014 event programme its most engaging yet.

Media Print Group claims print management carbon first
West Midlands-based print management company Media Print Group has achieved Carbon Balanced status, which certification partner PaperlinX believes makes it the the first UK print management company to...

Woodward hails BPIF successes at AGM
Chief executive Kathy Woodward has credited the BPIF with making "tremendous progress" on key areas identified for improvement last year, which she hoped would combat the organisation's continuing...

Should the worst happen, make sure you're fully covered
When a blaze believed to have been started by a forklift truck ripped through Polestar's Bicester storage facility this June, it offered a timely reminder of the importance to the print trade of...

On the road: printers present their transports of delight
White van man is something of a ubiquitous feature of roads up and down the UK. The epithet conjures up images of a filthy old Transit with a dashboard littered with yellowing copies of The Sun,...

Interview: 'I'm more confident today than I have been all year'
After the spate of high-profile withdrawals from Ipex 2014 over the past year, which began with HP last June, regular readers of PrintWeek could be forgiven for thinking that the show is on its last...

Wide-format exhibition still finds favour in changing times
Creative, artistic and innovative are among the words that have been used to describe what was to be seen, and felt, at Fespa 2013, the event's 50th outing.

Final chapter of Aldersons story comes to an end
Centrical Technologies has closed its doors a little over eight months after it rose from the ashes of the collapsed Alderson Print Group.