Print buying

Cimpress has acquired online sign and canvas print business BuildASign in a $280m (£213m) deal.

Printers and pre-press firms are listed among the major creditors of SP Group, which owed unsecured creditors more than £4.9m when it went into administration over the summer.

De La Rue has won a three-year contract to produce currency for the Swedish central bank, Sveriges Riksbank.

A revamp of the Clays board under its new ownership has resulted in the return of a former managing director of the business as a non-exec.

Zanders expects to have sealed a deal with a new investor by the end of the year.

Industry friends and colleagues are mourning Nick Finegold, who died last week at the age of 50.

Antalis has announced the winners of its 2018 Review awards, with six printers picking up trophies.

Awesome Merchandise’s crowdfunding campaign has resulted in the business raising nearly twice as much money as its initial target.

Prinovis UK is adding web offset to its production facilities with the purchase of the 16pp Goss M600A hybrid web offset press from the shuttered G&H site.

Reach Printing Services has signed a contract to print a number of the Metro titles being published directly by DMG Media.

More paper price rises are on the way next month with merchants issuing letters outlining increases of up to 8% after receiving notification from the mills of the need to put prices up.

Falkland Press has rebranded as Printed Easy to reflect the firm’s decision to focus wholly on online sales via its associated website.