Print buying

Integrity Print has acquired the equipment from Wyndeham Print Direct, and could take on some of the plant’s former workers.

Banknote and security printer De La Rue has issued a profits warning citing falling margins in its core businesses and slow growth in new business areas, wiping close to 30% off its share price.

York Mailing Group has made its first non-print acquisition as it looks to build a data analytics division.

Wyndeham Group is entering a new area of the web offset market after deciding on the location for the ‘prize asset’ short-grain web press from Global MP.

Polestar is set to begin printing on the first of its two new 96pp web presses at the end of this month.

Global MP has left a total shortfall of more than £13m, with trade suppliers among some of the hardest hit by the firm’s collapse.

The Delta Group has installed two new Durst wide-format machines, significantly boosting it’s roll-to-roll capacity and enabling it to bring soft-signage production inhouse for the first time.

Print sales are up at Tangent Communications but the group has issued a profit warning on the back of a poor performance at its agency operation, causing a near-20% drop in its share price.

Average net magazine circulation in the UK increased by 1.2% to 33.4m in the first six months of 2014, despite a mixed performance by some of publishing's biggest brands.

A major consolidation play is underway in the business supplies sector, which will affect the ownership of one of the UK’s biggest print managers.

Brunel Promotions will install a Motioncutter laser finishing system later this year.

Advertising spend on addressed direct mail has fallen 17.1% in the past five years, according to the latest Communications Market Report from Ofcom.