Stationery

Ron O’Donnell, the “larger than life” founder of commercial printer and stationer L G Davis, has died aged 88.

Card Factory aims to grow its personalised gifting business after bringing digital printing in-house with a £1m spend on new kit.

High quality stationery specialist Benwells has upgraded its litho print setup with a two-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster 52.

Collisons is hoping to improve quality, consistency and efficiency in producing greetings cards and stationery after installing a Xerox iGen 150 press.

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

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

International Greetings is investing £6m in a major switch from gravure to flexo printing at its main Welsh giftwrap production facility.

Envelope printer First Class Post was fined 2,500 and ordered to pay 1,041 in costs by Leeds magistrates for allowing staff to be lifted nearly six metres in a box perched on a forklift truck.

Drayton Press, has acquired the order book and customer list of former Kall Kwik outlet, Gaia Services and invested 100,000 in equipment.

The assets of James Stewart & Co (Printers) have been sold to Graphite Creative Print, a company set up by Simon Timms, son of Len Timms - the founder of the Hertfordshire-based commercial printer.