Business

CMYUK adds HP kit to portfolio
Wide-format kit reseller CMYUK is set to offer HP’s full range of latex and flatbed printers as it continues to expand its product offering for the UK sign and digital market.

Ad spend grows again but print spend still falling
UK advertising expenditure grew by 1.3% year-on-year in Q1 2017 but print continued to decline, despite direct mail exceeding forecasts, according to new research.

As a business evolves so must its staff
In separate conversations this week, two print bosses detailed at length their belief that the days of the ‘traditional’ print business are numbered.

Charge! Battery beauties take on their diesel rivals
It’s safe to say that printers haven’t been taking up electric vans in their droves.

Elle Media Group takes on MPC assets
Elle Media Group has bought the goodwill of MPC Print Solutions, following the £7.5m-turnover business closing its doors last month as the result of a combination of a six-figure bad debt and an...

Smart Graphics increases efficiency with Tharstern MIS buy
Scottish specialist graphics provider Smart Graphics has invested in a full Tharstern MIS which it said will slash estimating time.

New W2P business aims to simplify print-on-demand
A new London-based web-to-print firm is hoping to win a share of the fast-turnaround printing market by simplifying high-quality print-on-demand for creatives and entrepreneurs.

Stora Enso sells Swedish subsidiary Re-board
Finnish paper manufacturing group Stora Enso has signed an agreement to divest the business and assets of its Swedish subsidiary Stora Enso Re-board to Culas, for an undisclosed sum.

Cash is king. Long live the king
How many times have you heard variations on ‘Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity, but cash is reality’?

How to expand into the world of web
Printers and designers we’ve spoken to tell us they feel that if they don’t offer web services they risk losing the client,” according to its website. Nettl calls itself a “bolt-on formula” offering...