Business

BIS outlines Business Bank strategy
The government has outlined its plan to boost SME lending via the state-owned Business Bank, which will become the vehicle through which all government finance initiatives are administered.

Tharstern Primo MIS will save resources at Manchester Printers
A Trafford printer has invested in a Tharstern Primo management information system (MIS) which it expects will save thousands of pounds and streamline production.

Kodak closes $848m finance deal
Kodak has finalised its previously-announced $848m finance facility with members of the Steering Committee of the Second Lien Noteholders and other holders of Kodak's Senior Secured Notes.

RCS targets personalised gifting market
RCS printers in Retford has secured a deal with a chocolate company to create advent-calendar-esque count down products and is closing in on a personalised gift packaging deal with a major high street...

Technifold unveils CreaseStream Junior Pro at open house
Technifold launched a more entry-level version of its CreaseStream Plus cutter, creaser and perforator at the recent open day at its headquarters in Lutterworth, Liecestershire.

Buyout at Yorkshire web printer
Garnett Dickinson has restructured its board and is selling off one of its printing operations.

Triple install brings in new business for Prestige Press
Three new finishing machines are bringing in new business for a Buckinghamshire family printer.

Intergraf calls for level playing field on EU Ecolabel
European print asscociation Intergraf has called the EU Ecolabel for printed products "costly and administratively constraining" and called for a change in the way it can be applied to printed...

Horizon landscape finishing line rounds up 1.2m investment
Cheshire commercial printer Johnsons of Nantwich has rounded off a 1.2m operational overhaul with a Horizon SPF/FC200L booklet production line.

Lichfield Printers in Mohr 80 UK first
Lichfield Printers has taken on the UK's first Mohr 80 Eco guillotine following its busiest ever month.