Review of 2019: July

New Taylor Bloxham CEO Teresa-Anne Dunleavy
New Taylor Bloxham CEO Teresa-Anne Dunleavy

Our annual roundup of all the big stories around the UK printing industry.

Thamesdown Marketing Services went into administration, with the loss of 45 jobs... Taylor Bloxham appointed a new chief executive, Teresa-Anne Dunleavy... Rosehill Press was put up for sale after the loss of its biggest customer resulted in a cashflow crisis at the business... Bell & Bain acquired fellow Glasgow printer J Thomson Colour Printers. Separately, J Thomson appealed for help finding one of its own, folder operator Gregor Gibbons, who went missing at the start of the month. Sadly, his body was later recovered from the River Kelvin on 26 July... Cubiquity won a multimillion-pound three-year contract with the Alzheimer’s Society... Clays completed a £12m investment drive that comprised a raft of Muller Martini finishing kit alongside a new Fujifilm Jet Press 750S... The Serious Fraud Office announced an investigation into the activities of De La Rue in South Sudan... DG3 acquired the ongoing business and goodwill of Newnorth, which has to vacate its current site at the end of the year after selling it to developers in 2018... Duplo UK appointed a new managing director, Martyn Train...