2015 review: June

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

HH chief sales and marketing officer Tony Massey stepped down from his position at the £114m print management and marketing services business...

Paperlinx was on the verge of completing its European exit with the sales of its Irish, Spanish and Scandinavian operations...

Speculation was mounting over the future of Tullis Russell brands, as it emerged that the failed papermaker was owed more than £1m by Paperlinx when it went into administration...

Grafenia said it expected its Marqetspace trade-printing service and Nettl cross-media franchise offerings to become “the mainstay” of the group’s business over the next three years...

Packaging giant DS Smith completed its acquisition of Austrian-based recycled corrugated board packaging business Duropack...

Rhapsody merged with Wyndeham Group data arm Wyndeham Digital to add data analytics and strategic insight capabilities to its existing cross-media production services, creating a £5m business...

A1 Trade Print rebranded as A1 Security Print to better reflect its security print expertise...

The Callprint Group acquired Manchester high-street print, design and direct mail company PPS Print Communications...

The Tall Group bought Lisburn-based DLRS allowing it to move into the standard cheque and credit books sector...

J&G Environmental was awarded a three-year hazardous waste management contract by Communisis...

Central London printer Solways relocated its printing operations to Dumfries in Scotland following an alliance with unrelated Solway Print...

Trade printer Bayliss Printing Company more than doubled its pressroom capacity after buying its first B1 press, a five-colour KBA Rapida 105...

ProCo invested £1m in an HP Indigo 10000 B2 digital press to boost capacity by around 25% and target new applications...

FE Burman became the latest firm to buy the circa £1m HP Indigo 10000 B2 digital press, as part of its plan to target new business...

Bishops Printers returned to Heidelberg for its second Speedmaster XL 75 in less than 12 months as part of a £1.6m upgrade...

Dobson & Crowther went into administration. Envelope manufacturer Mail Solutions Group subsequently bought the plant and assets and was hoping to restart production...

Sacked Paperlinx boss Andrew Price secured a top job at HH Global as chief executive of Asia Pacific. Separately, Price was planning to sue Paperlinx over his dismissal from the business in February...

Tangent Communications sacked the CEO of its underperforming Tangent Snowball marketing agency, Steve Grout, and issued a profits warning for the full year...

The Reel Envelope Company, a new envelope printing and manufacturing company, was set up in Blackburn, Lancashire by The Envelope Works Group. The company hoped to grow to a £15m-£20m turnover within six years...

Grey, the latest novel by Fifty Shades of Grey author EL James, sold more copies in the UK in its first three days than any adult title has in its first week...

Tributes were paid to St Ives founder Bob Gavron, who died in February, at a memorial service to celebrate his life...

Wyndeham Group acquired Artisan’s key bindery assets and is setting up a new business unit on the back of a three-year deal with Argos. Artisan went into administration in May...

Commercial printer JR Print acquired the assets, kit and assignment of lease of fellow Horsham, West Sussex business Kool Kat, an ex-Kall Kwik franchisee...

Zenith Media bought its third Heidelberg Speedmaster XL, a high-spec XL 106, its second new B1 press in 2015...