Print buying

Oxford commercial printer Holywell Press is targeting growth after adding on-demand book production to its portfolio with a Horizon BQ270V perfect binder.

York Mailing has secured a major vote of confidence in print, becoming the first printing company to receive a multi-milllion pound investment via the Business Growth Fund (BGF).

Guardian News & Media (GNM) has posted pre-tax losses of 30.9m for the 12 months to 31 March 2013, reduced from 44.2m last year.

Pre-media business Rhapsody has appointed digital marketing and media consultant John Rahim into a newly created role of head of digital.

Paperlinx has opened an office in Shanghai, China to serve as its Asia sales office and also offer a route to expand its European portfolio of products manufactured in Asia.

The UK security print specialist was awarded the 2013 Management Supplier Award by Santander.

Inc Direct has upgraded its digital print production facilities as a result of the company's successful embrace of cross-media, which it said was now "pulling like a train".

Business secretary Vince Cable finally confirmed yesterday that the government is to privatise the Royal Mail, drawing an angry response from the CWU, which once again raised the spectre of industrial...

Communisis will effectively double the size of its transactional printing business as part of a deal to take over the in-house print operations of Lloyds TSB.

Woodford Web managing director Michael Tame has urged small- and medium-sized publishers to "keep their wits about them" in the face of major changes in the web offset printing landscape.

Wyndeham Group is bringing mailing in-house at its Heron facility with a £300,000 spend. The Essex web offset site has also just extended its print contract with The Spectator for a further three...

CPI Group is in negotiations with its bankers to restructure its debt.