Macfarlane Group continued on the acquisition trail, purchasing the packaging business of Glasgow-based Edward McNeil... Barely two months after launching, The New Day, ceased publication... ProCo acquired Concept Communications Group... Print On Solutions phoenixed into Wepos, leaving creditors owed £1.4m... Colchester Print Group ceased to trade, blaming a market that “conspired against” dedicated staff... KP Services opened a new inkjet printing operation for newspapers on Jersey... Adare bought rival Banner Managed Communication forming a £230m-turnover company... Falkland Press moved into B1 with the order of a Drupa-spec Speedmaster XL 106... Bramwell Label Company went into administration with 30 jobs lost and its kit up for auction... Precision Printing invested £3m in a plant overhaul... Huhtamaki acquired Delta Print & Packaging for £80m... De La Rue sold its Cash Processing Solutions business to private equity house Privet Capital... Drupa opened its doors with many...
...Deals and new kit launches
Konica Minolta showed a prototype of a new B1 UV inkjet digital press and launched its B2-plus UV inkjet press, the KM-1, under its new Accurio branding... HP, which had the biggest presence at the show, overtaking Heidelberg for the first time, secured sales for around 50 of its Drupa-launched Indigo 12000s, including major deals with two of the world’s biggest web-to-print firms... Xaar launched its first aqueous printhead in what it described as a “world leading” spec and announced a new partnership with Ricoh... Indigo and Landa Digital Printing founder Benny Landa celebrated his 70th birthday in style with a huge party the show... Ricoh and EFI signed a sales partnership for Ricoh to sell EFI printers... Flexible packaging specialist Reflex followed up on the deposit it paid at Drupa 2012 by placing an order for a Landa W10 web press... Glossop Cartons signed up for a new carton-specific MIS from Imprint-MIS as well as an RMGT 10-series B1 press, in a six-colour-plus-coater configuration... Online trade printer Quinn’s placed an order for a Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106-8-P LE-UV press... First Move Direct Marketing became the UK’s first buyer of the Xerox Trivor 2400 production inkjet web launched at the show... Augustus Martin signed for three, new wide-format flatbed UV inkjet printers from the Inca Onset X series... Three UK printers – J Thomson Colour Printers, Qualvis Print & Packaging, and Simply Cartons – ordered Rapida 106 presses and helped propel KBA to a €100m sales boom... Drupa organiser Messe Düsseldorf scrapped plans to change the show to a three-year cycle...
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