Print buying

Kodak and Jersey’s Guiton Group have teamed up to set up an inkjet newspaper printing operation that will be the first of its kind worldwide.

Bigger is no longer better for RR Donnelley – the giant printing and communications conglomerate has decided to break itself up into three separate businesses.

Global print-on-demand giant Cimpress has established its first UK manufacturing base with the acquisition of PrintWeek Company of the Year Tradeprint.

Trinity Mirror has doubled its cost reduction target for this year from £10m to £20m, but said it has no immediate plans to close any more print sites.

A new book celebrates the history of once-mighty British book printer Butler & Tanner.

Barnard & Westwood is the latest print business to become employee-owned via an Employee Ownership Trust.

Calling all hot metal typesetters – Urban Cottage Industries (UCI) is looking for skilled operators as it takes its ‘Juggernaut’ mobile typesetting system on the road.

Woodford Litho has officially gone into administration.

Sales at Polestar declined by almost £1m a month last year, with the continuing fall-off in newspaper circulations hitting its contract gravure supplement printing business.

Woodford Litho is poised to go into administration in what is being described as a “managed process”.

The family owners behind Artisan Press are facing an investigation into the legal ownership of some associated farmland as part of the administration process, as it emerged the firm had an estimated...

GF Smith has acquired the Naturalis fine uncoated papers brand from the administrators of Tullis Russell.