Business

KPM eyes growth after magazine acquisitions

Commercial printer KPM has moved into publishing following the acquisition of five magazine titles from a collapsed publisher, a strategic move it said would boost turnover by a "significant amount".

Printagraph ramps up quality with Scotland's first iGen 150

Printagraph has installed the first Xerox iGen 150 press in Scotland and said its print quality alone makes it worth its 500,000 price tag.

Woodward hails BPIF successes at AGM

Chief executive Kathy Woodward has credited the BPIF with making "tremendous progress" on key areas identified for improvement last year, which she hoped would combat the organisation's continuing...

Business inspection: Recruiting a co-pilot to aid lift-off

Rocket Graphics explains how hiring an expert can help take your business stratospheric

Should the worst happen, make sure you're fully covered

When a blaze believed to have been started by a forklift truck ripped through Polestar's Bicester storage facility this June, it offered a timely reminder of the importance to the print trade of...

On the road: printers present their transports of delight

White van man is something of a ubiquitous feature of roads up and down the UK. The epithet conjures up images of a filthy old Transit with a dashboard littered with yellowing copies of The Sun,...

Interview: 'I'm more confident today than I have been all year'

After the spate of high-profile withdrawals from Ipex 2014 over the past year, which began with HP last June, regular readers of PrintWeek could be forgiven for thinking that the show is on its last...

Final chapter of Aldersons story comes to an end

Centrical Technologies has closed its doors a little over eight months after it rose from the ashes of the collapsed Alderson Print Group.

Will forest pledge be enough to rehabilitate APP?

Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) promised to end to all deforestation across Indonesia in a new Forest Conservation Policy (FCP) published to a surprised, if not sceptical, world on 5 February.

Printers strike at Bootle packaging firm

The print unit at Merseyside-based Crown Speciality Packaging is in the midst of industrial action after management allegedly reneged on an agreed pay increase.