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Affinity Packaging looks to group future post-acquisition

Affinity Packaging has updated its leadership roster after its April 2023 acquisition by Peter Andreou and London financiers.

Royal Mail: contingency plans in place to keep letters and parcels moving

Royal Mail 'wins back customers', parent recruits new CFO

Royal Mail has reported a “marked improvement in performance” in Q4 2023, but the CEO of parent International Distributions Services has again described the Universal Service as “unsustainable”.

Unite bags seven-figure payout for former Stoneywood workers

Unite the union has secured a likely £1m-plus payout for former workers at Arjowiggins’ Stoneywood Mill.

Koenig & Bauer Durst appoints new MD, gears up for growth

Koenig & Bauer Durst has appointed a new managing director as the joint venture gears up for growth and commits to further investment in R&D.

Tony Hards was well known and liked in the industry

Tony Hards RIP

Tony Hards, former chairman and managing director of Intelligent Finishing Systems (IFS) and Graphic Arts Equipment (GAE), has passed away.

Clays: latest spend includes post-press with digital printing to come

Clays makes non-executive director appointments

Book printer Clays has made several revisions to its non-executive board membership, effective immediately.

Xerox’s share price was down by 15.7% yesterday

Xerox to cut workforce by 15%

Xerox has revealed a new operating model and organisational structure “to further the company’s reinvention” and is looking to reduce its workforce by 15%.

Middleton: I'm not quite ready to hang up my boots

Jason Middleton retires 18 months after Denmaur sale

Jason Middleton has retired from Denmaur Independent Papers, a year and a half after the sale of Middleton Paper Company’s Fine Paper and Conversion division to Denmaur.

Firm's products included printed toast. Image: Ink Edibles Ltd

Director disqualified after Covid loan support given to dormant firm

A director of a business specialising in personalised sweets and other edible items has been barred for a decade for claiming a taxpayer-backed Bounce Back Loan on false pretences.

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Communisis pension scheme heads for Pension Protection Fund

The Communisis Defined Benefit Pension Scheme is likely to become the latest industry plan to enter the Pension Protection Fund – although its professional trustee is hoping for a “much improved...