2015 review: December

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

Pureprint Group chief executive Mark Handford was named most influential person in print in 2015 PrintWeek Power 100...

Fabric printer Walker Greenbank and paper manufacturer James Cropper count cost of Storm Desmond…

It was revealed that Timsons book presses will be manufactured again thanks to a new partnership between Kolbus and Timsons Engineering in Kettering…

Double PrintWeek Awards winner Screaming Colour ordered a HP Indigo 10000 as it moves production from Slough to south London in a £1m-plus spend…

Tech-ni-Fold lost its patent infringement claim against Rosback Company...

Friedheim International added the Spedo range of mail and print finishing equipment to its portfolio in partnership with VPTS…

New litho-focused printer White Star Printing said it is on track to hit its first-year turnover goal of £750,000 after a successful first quarter of trading…

DS Smith bought Turkish corrugated specialist Milas Ambalaj...

Carbon Balanced Paper, the initiative that enabled printers and their customers to boost their environmental credentials, was reintroduced in the UK…

UK Mail unveiled plans for a “pure play digital’ W2P shop...

Manufacturers were warned to carry out basic risk assessments on dangerous machines after two businesses were fined following the death of two workers at a Merseyside woodchip factory…

Penguin Random House planned to close its Rugby distribution hub...

Addo Printing went into administration...

Deloitte’s report on Polestar, which found it required a further £18m refinancing to avoid running out of cash over Christmas, was leaked to the Sunday Times. Polestar said it would have the funds within three weeks...

Meanwhile Wyndeham Group owner Walstead Investments was hovering with a possible bid...

However, a few days later it was revealed that Swedish private equity fund Proventus Capital Partners was is in the process of ‘taking control’ of Polestar, resulting in the exit of the print group’s former owner Sun Capital Partners…