Web offset

Goss International, the US-based web offset press manufacturer, has added Illinois-based Loudon Machine to its group as part of a global strategy to grow its footprint in upgrades, parts and services.

Wyndeham Group has completed the consultation at its Bicester site, with 58 redundancies made as a result.

A year on from the collapse of Polestar, UK printers remain hopeful of winning back some of the work that migrated to the continent – and remained there – after the group’s failure.

The revamped YM Chantry site is now fully up and running, having commissioned the Goss Sunday 5000 64pp short-grain press at the site.

Wyndeham Group is proposing changes at its Bicester site that could result in up to 64 redundancies.

Garnett Dickinson Print has left an estimated shortfall of £29m, including a £25m pension deficit and £4.1m owed to trade creditors.

Continental groups CirclePrinters and Roto Smeets are to merge, in European print’s latest consolidation play.

Long-established family-owned magazine printer Headley Brothers has been put up for sale and has filed for protection from its creditors while the sale process is executed.

Nick Alexander has thrown in the towel at Garnett Dickinson and the web offset printer has been sold in a pre-pack deal.

Nick Alexander, the former owner of Garnett Dickinson Print, has spoken out about the reasons behind the pre-pack sale of the business.

A piece of machinery caught fire at Wyndeham Bicester last night (9 January), according to local news reports.

Garnett Dickinson is looking for a new managing director following the departure of Mark Bennett.