Business

Privatisation plan raises hackles and hopes in equal measure
There's little doubt that Royal Mail bosses welcome the government's long-awaited pledge to privatise the group, but for some in the print industry, it's a poison pen letter, tainted with the threat...

Print shines among Warrant Holders
Earlier this month, under an uncharacteristically blazing hot sun, 60,000 visitors converged on the pristine gardens of Buckingham Palace to celebrate the best of British.

Interview: 'We have got enormous opportunities coming up'
Andrew Price became executive director of Paperlinx, the UK's largest paper merchanting group, last September after a very public spat with the global group's board.

UK employers need to get clued up on pension obligations
Retiring to the Costa Blanca, becoming a golf pro, turning a small back lawn into a veritable Kew Gardens. All visions that have for most people of late, begun to seem rather distant and ambitious...

Falling circulation figures fail to tell the whole story
Sales of heat, Hello! and Closer plummeting; Nuts' year-on-year sales figures down; and even NME, which has historically attracted a deeply loyal readership, in decline: the Audit Bureau of...

Print's processing workhorses are backroom heroes
Many people believe that when they visit a website, upload photos to the web or load a web-based process, these operations are being run on their own computer. In fact, they are run on a server that...

Autobond helps save the day at fire-hit Aussie firm
Autobond has installed a Mini 105 laminator at one of the largest binding companies in Queensland, Australia, after a fire caused massive damage.

New binder at Holywell Press opens growth potential
Oxford commercial printer Holywell Press is targeting growth after adding on-demand book production to its portfolio with a Horizon BQ270V perfect binder.

York Mailing gains 10m funding for expansion
York Mailing has secured a major vote of confidence in print, becoming the first printing company to receive a multi-milllion pound investment via the Business Growth Fund (BGF).

GNM reduces losses, boosts revenues
Guardian News & Media (GNM) has posted pre-tax losses of 30.9m for the 12 months to 31 March 2013, reduced from 44.2m last year.