Print buying

Walstead has appointed the former CEO of CirclePrinters as the new head of its Spanish business.

Smurfit Kappa UK has acquired Lowestoft, Suffolk-based Saxon Packaging, for an undisclosed sum.

Web-to-print giant Cimpress will not be increasing the prices of the products it imports to the UK market because of the weak pound – yet.

St Ives Clays is already reprinting the Man Booker prize winning book, which for the second year running has been published by independent publisher Oneworld Publications.

An old Farley letterpress proofing press has fetched an astonishing price of more than £4,000 after a bidding war between two buyers on eBay.

Writtle’s interim results have been boosted by the sale of Creo Retail Marketing, and the group now has more than £6m in cash to aid its expansion plans.

Stationery firm Dodo Pad has laid down a challenge to UK printers as it strives to re-shore production to the UK from the Far East due to the fall in the value of the pound.

A man believed to be a migrant stowaway has died in a lorry full of catalogues travelling to the UK from a continental printer.

SCA Graphic Paper has a new UK managing director.

ImageCo is expanding its wide-format digital offering with a new EFI Vutek GS3250LX Pro.

Printers and print buyers should be braced for double-digit paper price rises if the pound fails to strengthen against the euro, with one papermaker describing the current situation as “a...

Bertelsmann Printing Group has scrapped its dual-CEO structure with the departure of one half of the pairing.