Print buying

Paragon Group has acquired DST’s UK Customer Communications business – the country’s biggest producer of direct marketing print – for an undisclosed sum.

Wyndeham Group has completed the consultation at its Bicester site, with 58 redundancies made as a result.

UV lamp supplier Victory Lighting has taken over rival lamp manufacturer Blue UV to make the UK company one of the largest global manufacturers of UV lamps for the print industry.

Antalis is calling on printers as well as designers to enter its long-established industry awards event, now in its 26th year, to reflect a welcome resurgence of interest in print.

2016 was a record-breaking year for the UK publishing industry, according to the latest figures from the Publishers Association.

Paper suppliers are pulling out all the stops to ensure sufficient stocks will be available to meet the spike in demand due to the upcoming general election.

Iliffe Media has acquired the entire shareholding of Kent’s independent publisher KM Media Group, for an undisclosed sum.

Nick Hand, who pedalled his ‘printing bike’ from Bristol to Gutenberg’s birthplace in Germany in 2014, is planning a new printing odyssey from Lands’ End to John O’Groats.

A year on from the collapse of Polestar, UK printers remain hopeful of winning back some of the work that migrated to the continent – and remained there – after the group’s failure.

A ‘northern wayzgoose’ is being organised over the summer by two Yorkshire-based exponents of letterpress printing and fine binding.

Stones Ashford has parted company with two former directors of Headley Brothers.

Theresa May’s decision to call a snap general election should provide a welcome short-term boost for the printing industry.