2015 review: August

All the business news, from acquisitions to liquidations, investments to divestments, from a year in the industry.

Sunday Telegraph Stella magazine featured its first commercial use of an innovative ‘Maltese cross’ multi-page promotional cover format last month...

Macfarlane Group bought One Packaging for £2.75m to boost its operations in the East Midlands...

GI Solutions launched a digitally printed manila mailpack following Royal Mail’s decision to accept mail that uses brown board and paper as ‘sustainable advertising mail’...

Delta Print & Packaging invested £3.5m in a Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 145 and a Suprasetter 145 platesetter in a bid to boost sales to £60m...

DPS Digital offered a permanent job to a printer who had to give up work five years ago to have a brain tumour removed...

Multisets fell into administration, less than a year after it acquired cheque printer Bank Security Printing...

RR Donnelley revealed it was to split into three separate businesses that will each be publicly traded entities...

Paperlinx revealed that it was to cut ties with its problematic past by renaming the continuing business Spicers, while its messy exit from Europe propelled the firm to a £183m loss...

Essentra’s Kimbolton print site was set to close as well as its Hull site, as all of the group’s print operations looked likely to move to its Newport, South Wales facility...

Capita Document & Information Services moved print production operations from Birmingham to Nottinghamshire to better “meet client demand”...

Whittington Moor Printing Works invested in a new Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 75 that will cut makereadies from 400 sheets to 40...

Simply Cartons ordered a £3.2m KBA Rapida, which will be installed in January 2016...

Saxon Packaging brought large-format litho lamination in-house with a new 1.6x2m-format Lamina Blackline 1620...

Kodak and Jersey-based Guiton Group planned to set up an inkjet newspaper printing operation, the first of its kind in the world...

York Mailing chief financial officer Stephen Goodman led an MBO at the £100m group...

Venerable shipping title Lloyd’s List returned to print with a new monthly title, The Intelligence...

Litho and wide-format printer Geneva Printing Solutions was put into creditors’ voluntary liquidation after experiencing cashflow difficulties...