Business

MJD completes 500k expansion

Point-of-sale designer and manufacturer MJD is bedding in at its new facility in Corby, after expanding out of its Rutland headquarters.

Report urges gov't to improve support for micro-businesses

Lord Young's latest report on boosting UK business calls for the abolition of PQQs on public sector contracts worth less than 200,000 and the removal of the Start-Up Loan scheme's age cap.

Polestar Petty wins new Independent contracts

Polestar has won the contract to print two weekly supplements for Independent Print, publisher of <i>The Independent</i>.

APS Group names new business development director

Manchester-based marketing services specialist APS Group has appointed Ken Moores to the new role of business development director. He took up the position in April.

Condé Nast closes Easy Living print edition

Publisher Condé Nast is to close the print edition of Easy Living despite the women's title achieving a 7.6% year-on-year increase in circulation to 150,854 in the second half of 2012.

EFI acquires PrintLeader

EFI has acquired US-based print MIS software developer PrintLeader for an undisclosed sum.

How the public can pile on the pressure

Would you rather print products that you can charge a few pence for, or products you can charge a few pounds for? Not, most printers would agree, the toughest of questions. Which is why, spurred on by...

Applying a human touch to proofing

Manual proofing has proved a crucial component in Pixartprinting's web-to-print success

'All you high flyers, ignore the cliff edge at your peril'

Bob Jenkins suddenly realised his head felt hot. Unusually hot. "It was not," he says "the sort of feeling you get with a normal headache. It was like imagining a saucepan full of simmering water,...

Interview: 'No printer wants a Vistaprint customer'

It began life as a catalogue, survived the dotcom boom - and bust - and went on to become the world's biggest web-to-print business. Jo Francis talks to Vistaprint founder and chief executive Robert...

Kodak maps out the road to recovery

It was yet another weighty document relating to Kodak's Chapter 11 process, but among the hundreds of filings, this was the most significant to date.

Book sector's strengths add up to more than Fifty Shades of Grey

Sales of printed books are down again, says the Publishers Association (PA), unveiling new figures that suggest even more shades of grey than the fifty that recently propelled sales of both the...